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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



Value of the fisheries of various coun- 

 tries, xiii., 108-112 



Van Dyck, Dr., on parasites in the sun- 

 fish, vi., 262 



Variegated sole, general description, i., 

 158 ; x., 294 ; anatomical details of the 

 family (x., 230) and genus to which 

 it belongs, x., 281 ; geographical 

 distribution x., 292 ; habits, x., 292 ; 

 food, x., 293; spawning, x., 293; 

 size attained by it, x., 293 ; mode of 

 capture, x., 293 ; quality of flesh, 

 x., 293 ; commercial value, x., 293 ; 

 names given to this fish, x., 293 



Vasa deferentia, viii., 33 



Vedic legends, &c., iii., 6, 10, 18, 20, 



21 



Vegetable food, rate of carriage for, 

 compared with that for fish, iv., 

 359) 3 6r J i ts composition, vii., 6 



Vegetation of sea bottom, vi., 276 



Velvet swimming crab, vi., 366 



Vendace (the), i., 165 ; xi., 178 



Venetian fishwives, ii., 256 



Venezuela, how represented at the Ex- 

 hibition, xiii., 108 ; condensed report 

 on the fishing industry of this country, 

 xiii., 529 



Venice, eel fishery at, iv., 438 



Venner, T. (1650), extract from one of 

 his works, i., 421 



Ventral fins, their position and uses, 

 viii., 8 



Venus, identical with Atergatis, a fish 

 divinity of the Phoenicians, iii., 196, 

 197 



Venus mercenaria, vi., 319 



Vertebrata, definition of term, viii., 

 6 ; their classification, viii., 6 



Vesica piscis, its supposed Christian 

 significance, iii., 43 



Vetch, Captain, R.E., his plan for the 

 construction of a harbour of refuge at 

 St. Ives (Cornwall), ix., 30 



Vinets, or vonets, rules laid down by 

 Louis XIV. as to their use, i., 501 



Vineyard Sound, United States of 

 America, clam fishing there, v., 44 



Viper soups, used medicinally even at 

 the present day, ii., 175 



Viper weaver, geographical distribution, 



viii., 79-80 ; dangerous character of 

 the wounds inflicted by this fish, viii., 

 79; local names, viii., 82; anato- 

 mical details, viii., 82; habits, viii., 

 82; habitat, viii., 83 



Virginia, fisheries of, statistics, v., 24, 

 30, 31 ; shad and alewife fisheries, v., 

 41 ; crab fisheries, v., 50 



Vishnu, his fish incarnation, iii., 19, 21, 

 38 



Visitors to the Exhibition, their num- 

 ber, xiii., 258 ; return giving daily 

 attendance, &c., xiii., 279-289 



Vital organs of fish, injury caused to 

 them by parasites, vi., 262 



Vivaria, experience as to food preferred 

 by codfish and haddock kept therein, 

 vi., 279 



Viviparous blenny, or eel-pout, i., 138 



Viviparous reproduction, viii., 34 



Vlaardingen, a fishing port of Holland, 

 vii., 284, 285 



Voles, ii., 177 



Von Baer, on whales spouting, iii., 257 



Voracity of fish generally, vi., 276; of 

 cod, vi., 285 ; of the angler fish, viii , 

 29 



Vrassky, M. , his dry process for fertili- 

 zation of ova, ii., 45 



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Wages of fishermen, in the Scotch 

 herring fishery, ii., 213; in the 

 Yarmouth herring fishery, ii., 219 ; 

 221 ; in the Cornish fisheries, ii., 

 224, 226, 229; vi., 120; in North 

 Sea trawling vessels, ii., 236; iv., 

 58; vii., 320; in the North Sea 

 cod fisheries, ii., 241 ; earnings of 

 fishermen often not so large as those 

 of mechanics, ii., 269; wages in 

 Channel trawlers, iv., 58 ; inadequacy 

 of fishermen's remuneration, iv., 153 ; 

 wages at different ports, iv., 163; 

 wages of crews engaged in the whale 

 fisheries, iv., 165, 178, 179; average 

 earnings of fishermen, iv. 167 



Waders, ii., 176 



Wages, payment of, provisions of 



