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have been more successful in haying their sea bottoms preempted and successfully 
utilized. 
The physical, financial, and market conditions in Maryland are such that judi- 
cious encouragement could almost at once place her in the head ranks of oyster- 
cultivating States ; order and industry would spring up where there is now but a barren 
waste; thousands of men now almost idle could be given employment; relieving the 
labor market of this surplusage would benefit the laboring classes in all industries of 
the State; while the oystermen at work on the public reefs, without being in any 
respect molested in their present occupation, would have an opportunity for building 
up a kindred industry to add to the support obtained from the common fishery. 
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS RELATIVE TO THE OYSTER 
INDUSTRY OF MARYLAND. 
1858 — Oyster trade of the Chesapeake. De Bow’s Commercial Review, pp. 259-260, vo!T24. 
1865 — Etude sur l’industrie liuitri&re des Etats-Unis. Par M. P. de Broca. Paris, Challamel, 1865. 
12mo, 266 pp. Translated in part on pp. 271-319 of Report of the U. S. Fish Commission for 
1873-74 and 1874-75. Washington, 1876. 
1869 — Oysters of the Chesapeake — their propagation and culture, pp. 341-347 of Report of the Com- 
missioner of Agriculture for 1868. Washington, 1869. 
1870 — Report upon the oyster resources of Maryland to the general assembly. By Hunter Davidson, 
esq., commander State oyster police force. Annapolis, 1870. 8vo, 20 pp. 
1872 — Report on the oyster fisheries, Potomac River shad and herring fisheries, and the water fowl oi 
Maryland, to his excellency the governor and other commissioners of the State oyster police 
force, January, 1872. Annapolis, 1872 . 8vo, 48 pp. 
1873 — Report of the commander of the oyster fisheries and water fowl of Maryland to his excellency 
the governor and the commissioners of the State oyster police force, January 1, 1874. 
William E. Timmons, commander. Annapolis, 1873. 8vo, 11 pp. 
1878 — Oyster beds of the Chesapeake. Nature, New York, vol. xvm, October 17, 1878, page 653. 
1880 — Report of the commissioners of fisheries of Maryland, January, 1880. Annapolis, 1880. 8vo, 
lxxviii pp. 
Constituting an appendix to the preceding are the following tivo articles: 
Development of the American oyster. By Dr. W. K. Brooks. 104 pp., with 10 plates. 
Extracts from report of Francis Winslow on investigations of oyster beds in Tangier and 
Pocomoke sounds and parts of the Chesapeake Bay. pp. 105-219. 
1881 — The history and present condition of the fishery industries : Tenth Census of the United States. 
The oyster industry. By Ernest Ingersoll. Washington, 1881. 4vo, 252 pp., 22 plates. 
1881 — Deterioration of American oyster beds. By Francis Winslow. Popular Science Monthly, 
New York. Vol. xx, pp. 29-43, 145-156. 
1881 — An account of experiments in oyster- culture, and observations relating thereto, made at St. 
Jerome Creek, Maryland, during the summer of 1880. pp. 1-66 of appendix to report of the 
Maryland fish commission. Hagerstown, Md., 1881. 
1882 — Report on the oyster beds of the James River, Virginia, and of Tangier and Pocomoke sounds, 
Maryland and Virginia. By Francis Winslow. Appendix No. 11. Report for 1881, U. S. 
Coast and Geodetic Survey. Washington, 1882. 4vo, 87 pp., with plates and chart. 
1883 — Chesapeake oyster beds. Science, T7ew York, vol. 2, 1883, page 440. 
1884 — Present condition and future prospects of the oyster industry. By Francis Winslow, pp. 
148-163 of Transactions of the American Fish-Cultural Association; thirteenth annual meet- 
ing. New York, 1884. 
1884 — Report of the oyster commission of the State of Maryland. January, 1884. Annapolis, 1884. 
4vo, 183 pp., 13 plates, 4 charts. 
