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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



employed in the Dutch herring fishery 

 in his time, ix. , 359 ; his book on 

 trade and commerce with the Dutch, 

 ix., 467 



Ramsay, E. P., paper contributed by 

 him on the " Food Fishes and Edible 

 Mollusca of New South Wales," v., 

 303-351 ; condensed reports on the 

 fishing industries of New South Wales, 

 xiii., 384-390; and of Tasmania, 

 398-404 



Ramsgate, trawling introduced by Brix- 

 ham fishermen, i., 273; an important 

 station for the herring fishery, i., 51 1 ; 

 its fishing port, iv., 37, 38, 41, 56 ; 

 increase in the number of vessels 

 employed, iv. , 90 ; casualties to fish- 

 ing vessels, and loss of life, iv., 171 

 social condition of its fishermen, iv., 

 173 ; size of mesh of nets used there, 

 iv., 314; fisheries carried on there, 

 viii., 337; apprentices, viii., 337 



Rana tigrina^ large frogs, a favourite 

 food of otters in India, ii., 495 



Rang, Captain S., an officer of the 

 French navy, his researches with 

 respect to the paper nautilus, iii., 271 



Rapacious fish, their introduction into 

 fish streams, &c., to be deprecated, 



vi-, 59 



Rasch, Professor, his efforts for the 

 restoration of the Norwegian fisheries, 

 i., 522 



Rathbun, Mr. R., his description of 

 the lobster fishery of the United 

 States, v. , 46-48 ; of the crab fishery, 

 v., 49 ; of the sponge fishery, v., 



51 



Rats, partially aquatic in their habits, 

 ii., 177; destruction caused by them 

 among salmon eggs, ii., 293 



Ravoirs, rules for their use laid down 

 by a decree of Louis XIV., i., 501 



Rawlinson, Mr. R., his appointment as 

 a Royal Commissioner "to enquire 

 into the best means of preventing the 

 pollution of rivers," iv., 284; re- 

 marks by him on the cleansing of 

 rivers, iv., 299 



Ray-maid, another name for the thorn- 

 back, viii., 319 



Rays, their characteristics described, i., 

 192 ; specimen of sting-ray in Buck- 

 land Museum, i., 196 ; their lamellate 

 or plate-like gills, ii., 158; formid- 

 able spine of the sting-ray, ii., 162; 

 dorsal and anal fins, and shagreen, 

 ii., 163; power of replacing worn 

 teeth, ii., 164; used as food, ii., 165 ; 

 numerous in the tropics, ii., 444; 

 their place in fairy-lore, iii., 55 ; not 

 saleable in London, owing to high 

 rates of carriage, iv. , 368 ; dangers 

 to fishermen from sting-rays, v. , 466 ; 

 list of the various species found at 

 Port Jackson, v., 334, 335; spiral 

 valve of the large intestine, vi., 272 ; 

 their possession of a pancreatic gland, 

 vi., 273 ; destructive effect of long- 

 line fishing, vi., 289; caught in the 

 North Sea, vii., 316; injury caused 

 by them to oyster beds, xi., 289, 394 



Ray's bream, a British representative 

 of the Coryphcenid(z, i., 113 



Razorfish, or spout-fish, its geographical 

 distribution, mode of capture, and 

 use as food, xi., 423, 483 



Read, Captain (Deal), remarks by him 

 on the destruction of immature fish, 

 iv., 328 ; on an invention of his for 

 showing the direction in which a ship 

 is steered, iv., 389 



Reading and District Angling Society, 

 iii., 1 2O 



Rearing troughs. See Apparatus for 

 fish culture. 



Red algae (Floridi), where found, vi., 

 276 



Red band-fish, or red snake-fish, general 

 description, i., 139 



Redditch Piscatorials, the, iii., 160 



Red herrings, how cured, i., 36 ; details 

 of analysis, i., 364; price at the 

 beginning of the fifteenth century, i., 

 396 ; statistics relating thereto, ii., 

 219 



Red Indian folk-lore, &c., iii., 18, 31, 

 36, 55, 72, 80 



Red mullet, or surmullet, anatomical 

 details of the family to which this fish 

 belongs, i., 88; classical references 

 thereto, i., 414; value as food, i., 



