XXIII.-GENERAL INDEX. 



[For special index to the report of Professor Yerrill on the marine invertebrates, see 

 This should always be referred to in the search for any name.J 



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Acanthias americanus 185 



Acanthurus 801 



Achirus 794,823 



Acipenser 812, 826 



Acipenseridie 790, 812 



Acipenseriuaj 790 



Actinochir 799 



Act of Congress providing for a 



Commissiouer of Fisheries xi 



^lurichtbys 811,826 



^tobatinte 790 



^tobatis 812 



Agencies of decrease, disease, and 



atmosphere xxii 



human xxiii, xxxii 



blue-fish xxxii 



Agassiz, Prof. L xv 



Agonidai 786,800 



Agouinse 786 



Agouus 800 



Ahnfeltia plicata 290 



Aid rendered by Departments of the 



Government v 



AkuDiakitsok 796,797 



Albicore 26, 35, 802 



size of 26 



value 26,35 



Albro, Samuel 8, 182 



Albula 810 



Albulid* 789,810 



Alecrin 813 



Alewife 811,826 



Algse 293 



Ale wives, abundance of 67 



movements of 35, 67 



economic value, &c 8,67 



Allen, J. A. P xii 



Alleterato 802 



Alopeciida? 790, 813 



Alopias 813,827 



Alosa 811,826 



Alutera 793, 823 



American angler 792 



Amersulak 796 



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Ammoccetes 814 



Ammodytes 807,824 



Ammodytidse 788, 807 



Ammody toidea 788 



Ammodytinse 788 



Anarrhichas 798 



Anarrhichadidae 786,798 



Anchovy 811,826 



Andrews, David 188 



Andrews, Sylvanus 41, 188 



Angel-fish 802, 807, 813, 827 



Anguilla.. 811,826 



AnguillidiB 781, 789 



Anisarchus 797 



Anisotremus 806 



Antennariidie 784,792 



Antennariinte 784 



Antennarioidea 784 



Apeltes 794,825 



Apogonichthys -. 807 



Apogoninse 788 



Apparatus used in capturing fish . . 253 



Aprionodon 813 



Archagonus 800 



Archosargus 605 



Argentiuinte 789 



Arguments for regulating the fish- 

 eries xxxiv, 73 



Argyriosus 803 



Argyrotsenia 807 



Argyrotseninte 788 



Ariinse 789 



Ariopsis 811 



Arnokl, Mr 11 



Aspidophoroides 800 



Associates in the inquiry xv 



Asteruopteryx 798 



Astroscopus 798 



Atherina 808 



Atherinidie 788,808 



Atmospheric agencies of decrease of 



fishes xxii 



Atwood, Capt. Nathaniel E.viii, 74, 117,223 



Aulostomoidea 784 



Aumsuoir 811 



