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GENERAL INDEX. 



Page. 



Herring, capture of 59, 67 



economic value of 21,59 



big-eyed 810,826 



English 811 



round "... 810 



spring 811 



tailor 811 



toothed 811 



Herring- weir, Bay of Fundy 270 



Saint Lawrence 271 



Heterosomata 785, 786, 787, 788 



Higgeson, Eev. Mr 159, 161 



Hildenbrandtia rubra 290 



Hirnautolophus 792 



Hinckleyjr., Capt.Thos. xxxvi, 59, 181, 185 



Hippocarapidse 784, 793 



Hippocampinse 784 



Hippocampus 793,823 



Hippoglossinse 785 



Hippoglossoides 795 



Hippoglossus ...795,824 



Histiophorus 802,825 



Hoe 814 



Hoe-mother 813 



Hog-choker 794,823 



Hog-fish 793,814 



Holacanthus 802 



Holmes, Mr 45, 72 



Holocentrinro 787 



Holocentrum 804 



Hooks, list of patented 275 



Horse-crevalle" 803 



Horse-fish- 793,802,825 



Horse-mackerel, (see blue-fish).. 79, 56, 77, 



79, 202 



Horse-mackerel 807 



Horse-neck 21 



Huckford,W 190 



Hudson, Dr. Wm, M is 



Huddy, Peleg 86,184 



Human agencies of decrease . .xxiii,xxxii 



Huxley, Prof. T. H. viii, 145 



Hyannis, Mass.. -47, 49, 50, 60, 178, 179, 190 

 memorial of citizens to 



Congress 137 



Hyatt, Prof xv, xvi 



Hydrargyra 809,826 



Hydrargyrinse 789 



Hyperoartia 791 



Hyperotrea 791 



Hypleurochilus 798 



Hypnea musciformis 289 



Hyporthodns 806 



Hypsoblennius 798 



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Icelus 800 



Illustrations, list of 833 



Improvement of fisheries, anticipa- 

 tion of xxxvi 



Impurities in water, destruction of 



fish by 9,18,74,77,81,96,97,105, 



113, 126, 136, 201 

 Inexhaustible supply of fish not... xix 



Inmingoak 795 



Inquiries as to decrease of fishes — vii 



by Massachusetts viii 



by Rhode Island viii 



by Connecticut ix 



by United States xi 



passage of bill directing — xi 



associates in xv 



objects of xvii 



resuls of in 1872 xxxvi 



preliminaries to vii 



Investigation, subjects for xiii 



arrangement of xiii 



results of , xviii 



plan of xiii 



in regard to fishes xiii 



in regard to their food xiii 



of physical condition of 



waters xiii 



Isabelita 802 



Isospondyli 789 



Isurinse 790 



Isuropsis 813, 826 



Iversoak 796 



Jeffries, Gwyn xvi 



Jenks, Prof. J.W. P xv 



Jewett, E 137 



Jew-fish 810 



Jiguagua 803 



Jorobado 802,803 



Josselyn, John 149, 150 



Julidinaj 786 



Jurel ' 803 



Jurisdiction of U. S 2L9 



K. 



Kaerrak 



Kigntilik 



Killi-fish 



King, Nathan . . . 

 Mr. Obed. 



798 



798 



, 809 



86 



12 



King-fish 802, 805, 824, 825 



Kyack 811 



