ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



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cal distribution, x., 196; habits, x., 

 196, 197 ; food, x., 197 ; spawning, 

 x., 197 ; size attained by it, x., 197 ; 

 modes of capture, x., 197, 198; 

 quality of flesh, x., 198; commercial 

 value, x. , 198 ; behaviour in confine- 

 ment, x., 198; names given to this 

 fish, x., 198, 199; general descrip- 

 tion, x., 199 



Whitling, one of the names of the 

 Salmo eriox, vi., 150 



Whitstable, head-quarters of Thames 

 Oyster Fishery, iv., 70; dearth of 

 oysters, iv., 100; probable cause of 

 this, iv., 100 ; oysters replanted 

 there from the Solent, iv., 109 ; 

 failure of spat, v., 102 ; cause of 

 this, v., 103 



Wick, deliveries of fish often very 

 large, ii., 215 ; economic condition of 

 fishermen at this port, iv., 182; 

 destruction of harbour, vi., 80; im- 

 provements now in progress, ix., 18; 

 a great seat in Scotland of the her- 

 ring fishery, xi., 129 



Widegren, H., of Scandinavia, testi- 

 mony as to the food of the herring, 

 vi., 283 



Wigs, a name given to full-aged males 

 of the fur-seal, vii., 166 



Wilcocks, J. C, prize essay on " Im- 

 proved Fishery Harbour Accommoda- 

 tion for Great Britain and Ireland," 

 ix., 3-113; prize essay on "The Best 

 Means of Increasing the Supply of 

 Mussels, &c.," xi., 447-485 



Wilder, Harry, one of the founders of 

 the Maidenhead, Cookham, and 

 Bray Angling Society, iii., 117 



Willett, E. H., and Anson, Comman- 

 der, C.V., R.N., prize essay on 

 "Oyster Culture," xi., 267-375 



Williams, Dr., extracts from his work, 

 "The Middle Kingdom," v., 174, 

 176 



Willows, varieties suitabfe for different 

 soils and situations, vii., 274 



Wilmot, Mr. (Canadian Commissioner), 

 methods employed by him for fish 

 hatching, ii., 39 ; remarks by him on 

 fish protection and propagation, iv., 



228; v., 161-166, 183, 248, vi., 51- 

 54, 103-105, 108, 238 ; on the prac- 

 ticability of introducing salmon into 

 China, v., 181 ; on the fisheries of 

 Japan, v., 209 ; on saprolegnia ferax 

 (or salmon disease) in Canada, vi., 

 23 ; on the so-called land-locked 

 salmon, vi., 63 ; on fish culture in 

 Canada, vi., 175-178; on the cultiva- 

 tion of coarse fish, vi., 236 ; his re- 

 marks with reference to fish parasites, 

 vii., 31 



Wilmot's improved glass incubator, ii., 



65 



' Wilson, Bishop, adds a paragraph to 

 the Litany, praying for restoration of 

 the fisheries, i., 64 



Wilson, Peter, remarks as to use by 

 Scotch fishermen of mussels as bait, 

 vi., 309 



Winds, their influence upon fisheries, 

 i., 281 ; the winds favourable for fish- 

 ing, vii., 316 



Windsor and Eton Society, iii., 115 



Winter cod and herring fisheries of 

 Norway, v., 274, 284 



Winter haddock fishery of the United 

 States, its value, v., 27 ; other statis- 

 tics thereof, v., 50 



Wirrah, the, an Australian fish of the 

 Pertidcz family, v., 311 



Wisconsin, statistics of fisheries of, v., 

 24, 25 



Witcher, W. F. (Commissioner of 

 Fisheries for Canada), on the desira- 

 bility of establishing telegraphic 

 communication along coast lines, v., 

 144 



Witham, river, plentifully supplied 

 with coarse fish, iii., 145 



" Wolf," name given to the bass by the 

 Romans, viii., 58 



Wolf- fish, one of the blennies, i., 134; 

 size attained by it, i., 135 ; possesses 

 very powerful teeth, i., 135; ii., 152, 

 its food, i., 135; its pugnacity, i., 

 I 35J apparently a night feeder, i., 

 136; opinions as to its value as a 

 food fish, i., 427 ; vii., 21 ; anatomi- 

 cal details of the genus to which it 

 belongs, x., 152; geographical dis- 



