of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



3 



VI. — Abstract of proceedings in Scotland with regard to the registra- 



tion of fishing boats in the year 1886, under the Sea Fisheries Acts 

 of 1868 and" 1883, and the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment 

 Act of 1885, ....... 27 



VII. — Return by fishing villages or creeks, for the coasts of Scotland, of 



the number of first, second, or third class fishing boats, beam 

 trawl vessels, and resident fishermen and boys, in the year 1886, 28 



APPENDIX E. 

 HARBOUR WORKS AND TELEGRAPHIC EXTENSION. 



I. — Account of the receipt and expenditure by the Fishery Board for 

 Scotland, for building and repairing piers and harbours in Scot- 

 land, and for telegraphic extension to remote fishery districts 

 in Scotland (Act 5th George IV. cap. 64, and ex-Herring Brand 

 Fees), in the year 1886, ...... 40 



APPENDIX F. 



SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS. 



I. — Report on the Trawling Experiments on the East Coast. Part I. 



Preliminary. By J. C. Ewart, M.D., and Sir J. Ramsay Gibson- 

 Maitland, Bart. (With Plates L, II., and III.), ... 43 



II. — On the Preparation of Sprats and other Fish as Sardines. By 



C. E. Fryer, Assistant Inspector of Fisheries for England, . 218 



III. — On the Nutritive Value and Relative Digestibility of Fresh Fish. 



By R. D. Clarkson, B.Sc, Baxter Scholar, University of Edin- 

 burgh, . . . . . . . .221 



IV. — On the Artificial Hatching and Rearing of Sea Fish. By J. C. 



Ewart, M.D. (With Plates VII. to X.), .... 230 



V. — Note on the Ova Fry and Nest of the Ballan Wrasse. By J. 



Duncan Matthews. (With Plate XI.), . . . .245 



VI. — On the Development of the Common Mussel. By John Wilson. 



(With Plates XII. to XIV.), 247 



VII. — On the Structure of the Herring and other Clupoids. Part I. 



The Skeleton. By J. Duncan Matthews. (With Plates XV. to 

 XVIII.), 257 



VIII. — Report as to Variety among the Herrings of the Scottish Coast. 



Part II. By J. Duncan Matthews, . . . .295 



IX. — The Food of the Whiting (Gadus rnerlangns). By J. Duncan 



Matthews, . . . . . . .317 



X. — Notes on the Food of Young Gadidae. By George Brook, . . 326 



XI. — Notes on Entomostraca. By G. S. Brady, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., 328 



XII. — Further Report on the Examination of River Waters for Micro- 



organisms. By J. 0. S. Greenfield, M.D., Professor of General 

 Pathology, and John Gibson, M.B., .... 331 



XIII. — Note on the Spawning of the Pike. By George Brook, . 347 



XIV. — On the Physical Conditions of the Water in the Firth of Forth. 



By Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. (With Plates XX. to XXIII.), . 349 



XV. — Report on St Andrews Marine Laboratory, No. IV., from 1st 



January 1886 to 31st December 1886. By Professor M'Intosh, 

 F.R.S. . ... . . . . .354 



