FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



Row-hound, another name for one of 

 the dog-fishes, viii., 314 



Roxburghe, Duke of, remarks by him 

 on the Duke of Edinburgh's paper 

 respecting sea fisheries, iv., 79 



*' Royal Charter," loss on the north 

 coast of Anglesea, vii., 179, 200 



Royal Commission of 1858, opinion ex- 

 pressed by them as to the part to be 

 taken by Government in the con- 

 struction of harbours of refuge, ix., 



13 



Royal Commission of 1863 on legisla- 

 tion for sea fisheries, iv., 86, 88, 97 



Royal Commission on saving life at sea, 

 proposed appointment, vii., 215, 216 



Royal Commission of 1864-1865 on 

 Fisheries, iv., 8, 9 ; of 1882, ix., 284 



Royal crests, iii., 71, 72, 74-76 



Royal fish, i., 207 ; iii., 45-47 ; ix., 286 



Royal Fishery Company, formed in the 

 time of Charles II., i., 495 



Royal grants or charters, ii., 307 



Royal Naval Reserve (second class), re- 

 cruited chiefly from fishermen, iv., 34 



Royal privileges, iii., 46 



Rudd, anatomical details of the family 

 to which this fish belongs, i., 168 ; 

 when in season, i., 399 ; use 'as food 

 or bait, ii., 77 ; time of spawning, 

 ii., 77; vi., 220; plentiful in the 

 Norfolk broads, ii., 406 



Rudolphi, in reference to the eating of 

 ligules in Italy, vi., 252 ; statements 

 respecting their exit from fish, con- 

 firmed by him, vi., 257 



Ruff, or Pope, i. , 85 ; character of dor- 

 sal fin, ii., 148; use as a fish-crest, 

 iii., 67 



Ruhoo, in Hindoo mythology, iii., 38 



Rauning-pollack, a Cornish name for 

 the coal-fish, viii., 154 



Rauning-salmon, a local name for the 

 coal-fish, viii., 154 



Russell, J. Scott, his law of breaking 

 waves, ix., 70 



Russia, salmon eggs imported from Cali- 

 fornia, v. , 70 ; importations of Nor- 

 wegian fish, v., 292; possessions in 

 America which are the seat of a seal- 

 fishery, vii., 171 ; progress of pisci- 



culture in that country, xi. , 5 ; plan 

 adopted for catching fish when the 

 surface of the water is frozen, xi., 

 176 ; self-acting rods used for fishing 

 through the ice, xiii. , 8 ; comparative 

 scarcity of fish in the Baltic and the 

 Black Seas, xiii., 27 ; opinions of 

 geologists as to connection, at a 

 former period, of the Black Sea with 

 the Arctic Ocean, xiii., 28; abstrac- 

 tion of salt from the Caspian by eva- 

 poration, xiii., 28, 29; value of the 

 fisheries of the Caspian basin, xiii., 

 2 9 3 > f the sea of Azov, xiii. , 29, 

 of the Black Sea, xiii., 29 ; of other 

 Russian lakes and rivers, xiii., 29; 

 value of the sturgeon fishery, xiii., 

 30 ; fish caught in Russia not sufficient 

 for home consumption, xiii., 30 ; draft 

 net in use on the Volga, xiii., 30, 31 ; 

 exhibits of cured fish, xiii., 31 ; model 

 of Government piscicultural establish- 

 ment, xiii., 31 ; model of vessel for 

 carrying fish for long distances alive, 

 xiii., 32 ; trophy of ropes and lines 

 made at St. Petersburg, xiii., 32; 

 model of a fish shop, xiii., 32 ; total 

 value of Russian fisheries, xiii., 109 



Russian folk-lore, &c., iii., 20, 56, 

 57 



Ruther v. Harris, action at law, i. , 224 



Rutnagiri (India), condition of the 

 fishermen there, ii., 461 



Ryder, Mr., his observations on the de- 

 velopment of ova, ii., 1 8 



Rye Bay, fisheries carried on there, iv., 

 91 ; viii., 338; cause of decline in 

 its fisheries, iv., 337 ; vessels em- 

 ployed, viii., 338; ix., 256 



Ryedale Angling Club, iii., 161 



Rye-grass, Italian, as a product of sew- 

 age-farming, vii., 50 



Rytina, the, its discovery on -Behring's 

 Island by S teller, the Russian zoolo- 

 gist and traveller, iii., 228; sup- 

 posed now to be extinct, iii., 228; 

 evidence obtained by Nordenskiold 

 of its existence in 1854, iii., 229; 

 form of tail, iii., 230; cited as an 

 instance of practical extermination, 

 v. 60 



