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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



protection of deep-sea fisheries, iv., 

 353 ; protection afforded by indivi- 

 dual proprietors, vi., 190 ; protection 

 of eggs of lobsters, vi., 329, 336, 

 339 ; when protection is necessary, 

 vi-j S^S ; legislation with respect to 

 close time, ix., 270-273; needless- 

 ness of such restrictions, ix., 273 ; de- 

 scriptions of various measures adopted 

 for the protection of fish, ix., 274; 

 suggestions for their improvement, 

 ix., 275-278 



Protective duties, German, statement 

 by Mr. Spencer Walpole as to the 

 effect of such duties, iv., 147 



" Protective mimicry,'" ii., 145 



Protopterus (African), ii., 168 



Providence of fisher-folk, suggestions as 

 to, ii., 271, 272 



Provincetown (U.S.), a seat of the 

 whale fishery, v., 20 ; commercial 

 fisheries there, v., 20 



Prussia, development, &c., by zoologists 

 of the fish industry there, iv., 411 



Prussian carp, i., 169 



Pseudobranchise, x., 8 



Pteropods,, vi., 277 



Public Health Acts, vii., 59 



Public right of fishing and navigation, 

 i., 220, 232 



Puffin, description of, i., 433 ; as food, 



i-, 433 



Puget Sound, fisheries of, v., 21 ; sta- 

 tistics of salmon fishery, v., 34, 35 

 Pughsley, Mr., of Kid welly, process 



adopted by him for recovering the 



acid from tin-plate pickle, ii., 341 

 Punjab (the), consumption of fish by the 



natives, ii., 497 ; market supply, ii., 



500 

 Punta Arenas, a sealing station, vii., 



1 60, 165 

 Purification of water by Mr. Sillar's 



patent, vii., 51-52 

 Pur, an implement used in unloading 



cod smacks, v., 128 

 Purple, Tyrian, preparation of, iv., 5 

 Purse-net, used in India, ii., 456, 488 

 Purse-seine fisheries, where carried on, 



v., 18 

 Purse-seine (the), its possible introduc- 



tion into British waters, xiii., 115, 



117, 119; mode of working it, xiii., 



115; increased risk to fishermen 



caused thereby, xiii., 123 

 Purse-shaped shrimp net, i., 293 

 "Putchers," basket-traps for fish, i., 



221, 319; xiii., 7 

 Putrefaction of fish, conditions which 



produce it, vii., 220, 221, 226-227, 



228 



" Putts." See Putchers. 

 Pyloric appendages in fish, ii., 298; 



vi., 273; x., 19 

 Pylorus, viii., 14 



Quackery in science, practical men 

 often imposed upon by mere quacks 

 and pretenders, iv., 410 



Quahaug, or Round Clam, United 

 States fisheries, v., 43-46 ; annual 

 product and value, v., 46 ; remarks 

 on this fish by Professor Brown 

 Goode, vi., 319 



Quahog Strand fishery, statistics re- 

 lating thereto, v. , 26 



Quebec, its sea-fisheries, v., 119; 

 season for cod-fishing, v., 122 ; 

 its railway communication with all 

 parts of Canada, v., 132; mackerel 

 fishing not sufficiently developed, 

 v., 137; regulations for the pro- 

 tection of fresh-water fish, v., 155, 156 



Queen, or queen-fish, a Cornish name 

 for the smear-dab, viii., 211 



Queen mackerel, a name usually ap- 

 plied to large females before spawn- 

 ing, vi., 116 



Queens, or squins, a mollusc used for 

 food, xi., 481 



Queensferry, North, salt-water vivarium, 

 ii., 89 



Quid, Cornish name for the sand -smelt, 

 viii., 109 



Quin, John, the actor, his partiality to 

 the John Dory, x., 150; an anecdote 

 in connection therewith, x., 150 



Quinnat salmon, method of transport- 

 ing the ova from the McCloud river 



