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oyster-raisers of Europe last summer in London, and having 
heard what was said concerning the action of Connecticut. 
Every country which has any oyster-fisheries is trying to solve 
the same problem, viz: how to protect the beds and give oyster- 
culturists right of property by the fruit of their labors. It 
really appears to me that this subject—the progress of the work 
in Connecticut—is one of the most interesting that could be 
brought before this society. 
THESOYSTER INDUSTRY (OR EEG IW ORs 
BY G. BROWN GOODE. 
The oyster industry of the world is seated chiefly in the United 
States and France. Great Britain has still a few natural beds 
remaining, and a number of well conducted establishments for 
oyster culture. Canada, Holland, Italy, Germany, Belgium, 
Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway and Russia have also oyster 
industries, which are comparatively insignificant, and, in the 
case of the last two countries, hardly worthy of consideration in 
a ‘statistical "statement. “Recent ‘and “accurate statistics; ving 
Goode said, were lacking except in two or three instances. A 
brief review by countries in the order of their importance was 
presented. The oyster industry of the United States was shown 
to employ 52,805 persons and to yield 22,195,370 bushels, worth 
$30,438,852, and that of France in 1881, employed 29,431 per- 
sons, producing oysters valued at $3,464,565. The industry of 
Great Britain yielded a product valued at from two to four mil- 
lion pounds sterling. Holland was shown to have a considera- 
ble industry in the Province of Zeeland, and to have produced 
native and cultivated oysters to the value of $200,000. Germany 
has an industry on the Schleswig coast valued at about $400,000; 
while the products of other European countries mentioned were 
too insignificant to deserve a place in this brief abstract. An 
