of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 



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V. — Table showing the number of Lives lost in connection with 



the sea fisheries of Scotland ; the number of boats totally 

 wrecked, and value thereof ; the number of boats damaged, and 

 amount of damage ; and the loss on nets and other fishing 

 material lost or damaged, in the year 1885, . . .26 



APPENDIX E. 

 HARBOUR WORKS AND TELEGRAPHIC EXTENSION. 



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



Scotland, for building or repairing piers and harbours in Scotr 

 land, and for telegraphic communication to remote fishery dis- 

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

 Brand Fees), iii the year 1885, ..... 28 



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



progress under the Fishery Board for Scotland, in the year 1885 30 



APPENDIX F. 

 SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS. 



I. — On the Development of the Herring. Part II. By George Brook, 



F.L.S., Lecturer on Comparative Embryology in the University 



of Edinburgh. (Plates I. and II.), . . . .31 



II. — Are Herring Ova likely to Develop Normally on the Deep Offshore 



Fishing Banks ? By J. C. Ewart, M.D., . . . 43 



III. — Report on the Herring Fishery of Loch Fyne and the Adjacent 



Districts during 1885. By George Brook, F.L.S., . . 47 



IV. — Report as to Variety among the Herrings of the Scottish Coasts. 



Part I. By J. Duncan Matthews, F.R.S.E., . . 61 



v.— On the Nature of Thames and Forth Whitebait. By J. C. Ewart, 



M.D., and J. Duncan Matthews, ..... 98 



VI. — Preliminary Reports on the Food of Fishes, . . .100 



VII. — Notes on the Copepods of Loch Fyne. By W. L. Calderwood, . 147 



VIII. — On a Crangon, some Schizopoda, and Cumacea New to or Rare 



in the British Seas. By the Rev. Canon A. M. Norman, M.A., 

 D.C.L.. F.L.S., 155 



IX. — On Red and Pale Muscles in Fishes. By William Stirling, M.D., 



Sc.D., Brackenbury Professor of Physiology and Histology in 

 Owens College and Victoria University, Manchester, formerly 

 Professor of the Institutes of Medicine (Physiology) in the Uni- 

 versity of Aberdeen. With 3 Plates (III., IV., V.), . . 166 



X. — On the Blood of Nephrops Norwegicus. By W. D. Halliburton, 



M.D. (Lond.), B.Sc, M.R.C.P., Sharpey Physiological Scholar,. 



and Fellow of University College, London, . . .171 



XI. — Further Report on the Examination of River Water for Micro- 



organisms. By W. S. Greenfield, M.D., Professor of General 

 Pathology in the University of Edinburgh, and G. Sims Wood- 

 head, M.D., Senior Assistant in the Pathological Department, . 176 



XII. — Report on the Physical Observations made for the Fishery Board 



for Scotland during the Autumn of 1883 in the Moray Firth. By 

 John Gibson, Ph.D., F.R.S.E., F.I.C., Senior Demonstrator of 

 Chemistry, University of Edinburgh. (Plates VI. and VII.), . 189 



XIII. — Report of the St Andrews Marine Laboratory, No. III. From 



1st April 1885 to 31st December 1885. By Professor M'Intosh, 

 M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., 201 



