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II. — Account of the receipt, ex herring brand fees, and expenditure 



by the Fishery Board for Scotland, for building or repairing 

 piers and harbours, and for telegraphic extension to remote 

 Fishery Districts, year ended 31st December 1883, . . 29 



III. — Report by the Engineers upon the state of the Harbour Works in 



progress under the Fishery Board for Scotland, year 1883, . 30 



APPENDIX F. 

 SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS. 



I. — On the Chemistry and Histology of the Digestive Organs of Fishes. 



By Professor William Stirling, Aberdeen. With Plates I. and II. 31 



II. — Note from the Marine Station, St Andrews. By Professor M'Intosh, 



M.D., F.R.S., St Andrews, ..... 47 



III. — Report on the Sprat Fishing during the winter of 1883-84. By Mr 



J. Duncan Matthews, F.R.S.E., Demonstrator of Zoology in the 

 University of Edinburgh. With Plate III., . 48 



IV. — Natural History of the Herring. By Professor Cossar Ewart, M.D. 



With Plates IV. to IX., ...... 61 



V. — List of Edible British Fishes. By Miss Maclagan, . . .74 



VI. — Note on a new British Fish. By Dr Francis Day. With Plate X., 78 



VII. — List of Specimens of Fish forwarded by Fishery Board's Officers 



and others. By Professor Ewart. With Plates XI., XII., and 

 XIII., 79 



VIII. — Circulars addressed by Fishery Board for Scotland to the fishery 



officers, instructing them to forward to the Scientific Investigation 

 Committee samples of Herring and Sprat takes during winter of 

 1883-84, 81 



APPENDIX G. 

 SALMON FISHERIES. 



I. - Second Report to the Fishery Board on the Salmon Rivers falling 



into the Scottish side of the Solway Firth, and the Salmon Rivers 



of Ayrshire, by Mr Young. With Map, . . . .85 



II. — Report on the Rivers and Lochs that would be opened up to Salmon 



by placing an efficient Salmon-Ladder on the Falls of Tummel, 



by Mr Young, ....... 152 



