LANCASHIRE SEA-FISHERIES MEMOIR — No. I 



OYSTERS AND DISEASE 



An Account of certain Observations upon the Normal and 



Pathological Histology and Bacteriology of 



THE Oyster and other Shellfish. 



BY 



W. A. HERDMAN, D.Sc, F.R.S., 



Professor of Zoology in University College, Liverpool, and Honorary Director of Scientific Work 

 TO THE Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Committee; 



AND 



RUBERT BOYCE, M.B., 



Professor of Pathology in University College, Liverpool, and Bacteriologist to the City of Liverpool. 



Wi'ik Eight Plates. 



LONDON: 

 GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32 FLEET STREET, E.G. 



LIVERPOOL: PHILIP, SON & NEPHEW, 45—51 SOUTH CASTLE STREET. 



1899. 



