ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



171 



Merchant Shipping Bill, 1882, there- 

 on, viii., 426, 428, et sey. 



" Waitara," loss of the, vii., 200 



Wales, H.R.H. The Prince of, remarks 

 by him at opening of conferences, 

 iv., 3, 21 ; on the Duke of Edin- 

 burgh's paper on the sea fisheries of 

 the United Kingdom, iv., 81 ; speech 

 by him at the opening, xiii., 247 ; and 

 at the closing of the Exhibition, xiii., 

 266 



Wales, offers excellent sport to the 

 angler, ii., 381, 420; want of har- 

 bour accommodation, iv., 389 



Walking and climbing fish, iii., 13 



Wall nets, used in India, ii., 488 



Wallem, F. M., notes on the fish supply 

 of Norway, v., 271-301 ; his remarks 

 on the lobster fishery in Norway, 

 xiii., 140, 143 



Wall-eyed pike, artificial propagation 

 in the United States, v., 69 



Walpole, His Excellency Spencer, 

 paper by him on " The British 

 Fish Trade," i., 1-71 ; prepara- 

 tion by him of a consolidated re- 

 print of Salmon Fishery Acts with 

 proposed amendments, i., 214 ; 

 affirms the principles, with regard to 

 sea-fisheries, of legislation of 1868, 

 in his report in 1878, iv., 97; reads 

 a paper, at conferences, on fish trans- 

 port and fish markets, iv., 115-130 ; 

 official report on the Exhibition, xiii., 

 1-178 



Walrus, the, ii., 178 



Walsh, R. F., paper on "Improved 

 Facilities for capture, &c., of Sea 

 Fishes," vii., 117-137 



Waltonian Angling Society, iii., 174 



Warm water basins in Norwegian 

 Ocean, v., 274 



Warrenpoint herring fisheries, statistics 

 of, vii., 76 



"Wash," a measure for whelks, ii., 

 245 ; vi., 303 



Wash (the), its importance in providing 

 bait for fisheries, ix., 5 



Washington, Admiral, his report on 

 the suitability of Padstow as a site 

 for a harbour of refuge, ix., 26 



Washington, U.S. America, hatching 

 station there, v., 67 ; a station for the 

 reception and distribution of German 

 carp, v., 71 



Washington Territory, statistics of 

 fisheries, v., 24, 25, 30, 31 ; shore- 

 whaling, v., 35 



Washington, Treaty of, provisions re- 

 specting fisheries, i., 244 



Water bailiffs appointed by conservators 

 of salmon fisheries, their powers and 

 privileges, i., 233 



Water carriage of fish, better and 

 cheaper than land carriage, iv., 125 ; 

 its extension a means of ensuring a 

 supply of cheap fish to the metropolis, 

 iv., 141 



Water-fowls, destruction caused by 

 them among salmon eggs, ii., 293 



Water, chemical composition of, i., 339, 

 346, temperature most favourable for 

 herring fishing, i., 301 ; supply of, 

 temperature, &c., for fish culture 

 establishments, ii., 27, 31, 33, 55; 

 want of standards of purity, iv., 279, 

 280, 281, 286 ; purified by passing 

 through forests, vii., 269 



Water-borne fish, at London markets, 

 its proportion to that brought by 

 land, iv., 140 



Water-cress, advantage of having a 

 good growth of this plant in places 

 stocked with fresh-water fish, vii., 

 272 



Water-horse, &c., iii., 19, 72, 84, 86 



Water plants as herbage and shelter for 

 fishes, vi., 49 



Watertight compartments, their use in 

 Chinese fishing boats, v., 175 



Watford Piscators, iii., 164 



Watt, W., prize essay on "Physical 

 Conditions of the Sea in Relation to 

 Fish," xi., 551-568 



Wave hatching box, ii., 85 



Waves, their height, ix., 56; length, 

 ix., 58; force, ix., 59; instances of 

 their destructive effects, ix., 60 ; 

 their force sometimes modified by 

 tides, ix., 63 ; relation between their 

 height and depth of water, ix., 68 ; 

 Mr. Scott Russell's law of breaking 



