Page images
PDF
EPUB

those of Judson Tarr & Co., J. C. Condon, R. A. Friend, G. B. Ken niston, G. W. Miles, and Hawkins Brothers in the statistics of manufac tures; that of Mr. F. J. Babson in the statistics of the bait fisheries, and that of Mr. F. F. Beals in relation to the sardine manufactures. Thanks are due to Melton & Co., of Jacksonville, Fla., for specimens of fish from the Saint John's River.

APPENDIX C.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERATURE RELATING TO THE MENHADEN.

BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS (Latrobe) Goode.

Clupea tyrannus, LATROBE, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. v, 1802, p. 77, plate 1 (four figures).

Brevoortia tyrannus, GOODE, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1878, p. 5.

Clupea dura lævi mystax (Hard Head), BELKNAP, History of New Hampshire, 2d ed., 1813, vol. iii, p. 133. (Name only.)

Clupea menhaden, MITCHILL, Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, vol. i, 1815, p. 453, pl. v, fig. 7. Cook, Geology of the County of Cape May, State of New Jersey, 1857, p. 113.

GÜNTHER, Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum, vol. vii, 1868, p. 436.

WHITEAVES, Notes on the Marine Fisheries, and particularly on the Oyster Beds of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Sixth Annual Report Department of Marine and Fisheries, 1874, p. 195. Alosa menhaden, RICHARDSON, Fauna Boreali Americana, 1836, p. 229.

STORER, Report on the Icthyology and Herpetology of Massachusetts, 1839, p. 117; Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, new series, ii, 1846, p. 459; Synopsis of the Fishes of North America, 1846, p. 207; Mem. Amer. Acad., new series, vi, 1858, p. 386; History of the Fishes of Massachusetts, 1867, p. 158, pl. xxvi, fig. 4, and (?) in Appleton's New American Cyclopedia.

DEKAY, Zoology of New York, or the New York Fauna, part iv, Fishes, 1842, p. 259, pl. xxi, fig. 60.

AYRES, Enumeration of the Fishes from Brookhaven, Long Island. Boston Journal of Natural History, vol. iv, 1844, p. 275.

PERLEY, Descriptive Catalogue [in part] of the Fishes of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Reports on the Sea and River Fisheries of New Brunswick (2d ed.), 1852, p. 208.

BAIRD, Report to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution on Fishes of the New Jersey Coast, as observed in the Summer

of 1854. <Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1854, p. 347, and repaged edition, June, 1855, p. 33; Geology of the County of Cape May, State of New Jersey, 1857, p.

147.

GILL, On the Fishes of New York, in Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1856, p. 266.

Cook, op. cit., 1. c.

Alausa menhaden, VALENCIENNES in Cuvier and Valenciennes' Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, vol. xx, 1843, p. 424.

Brevoortia menhaden, GILL, Catalogue of the Fishes of the East Coast. of North America, 1861, p. 55; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1861, p. 37 (diagnosis of genus); Canadian Naturalist, 1867, p. 260, and in Baird's Report on the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast of New England, 1873, p. 826. STEINDACHNER, in Sixth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries (Massachusetts), for the year ending January 1, 1872.

BAIRD, List of Fishes collected at Wood's Hole, in Report on the Sea Fishes of the South Coast of New England, 1873, p. 826, and elsewhere in same report, p. 136.

VERRILL, On the Food and Habits of some of our Marine Fishes, in American Naturalist, v, 1871, p. 398; Lists of Species found in the Stomachs of Fishes, in Baird's report sup. cit., 1873, p. 520.

VERRILL, SMITH and HARGER, Catalogue of the Marine Invertebrate Animals of the Southern Coast of New England, and Adjacent Waters, in Baird's report sup. cit., 1873, p. 578 (lernæan parasite).

WHITEAVES, 1. c.

BOARDMAN and ATKINS, The Menhaden and Herring Fisheries of Maine, 1875.

GOODE, Catalogue of the Collection to illustrate the Animal Resources of the United States, 1876, p. 63.

UHLER & LUGGER, List of the Fishes of Maryland, in the Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries of Maryland, 1876 (first edition), p. 156; (second edition), p. 133.

HIND, The Effect of the Fishery Clauses of the Treaty of Washington on the Fisheries and Fishermen of British North America, 1877, p. 73.

YARROW, Notes on the Natural History of Fort Macon, N. C., and Vicinity (No. 3), Fishes, in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1877, p. 215.

Alosa sadina, MITCHELL, op. cit., p. 457.

DEKAY, op. cit., p. 263, pl. xl, fig. 129.

Alausa shadina, VALENCIENNES, op. cit., p. 426.

Clupea neglecta, RAFINESQUE, Second Decade of New North American
Fishes, in American Monthly Magazine, vol. ii, 1818, p. 206.
Clupanodon aureus, SPIX, Selecta Genera et Species Piscium, Brazil,
1829, p. 52, tab. xxi.

Alosa aurea, VALENCIENNES, op. cit., p. 427.
Clupea aurea, GÜNTHER, op. cit., p. 437.

Clupea Carolinensis, GRONOW, Catalogue of Fish collected and described by Lawrence Theodore Gronow, now in the British Museum (ed. GRAY), 1854, p. 40.

"Fish Guano," HALLIDAY, S. B., in Country Gentleman, vol. vi, p. 250. S. W. JOHNSON, Ibid. vol. viii, p. 43.

Cook, op. cit.

"Menhaden Fisheries and their Products, A new source of Commercial Industry." By LOUIS C. D'HOMERGUE, <in The Manufacturer and Builder, vol. iii, p. 114, May, 1876.

"The Fish Oil and Scrap Business," CONNECTICUT, in American Agriculturist, vol. xxxii, 1873, p. 139.

"Fish Scrap or Guano," EDITORIAL, ibid. xxxi, 1872, p. 419.

"The Manufacture of Fish Oil and Guano," ANONYMOUS, ibid. xxvi, 1867, p. 400 (with wood cut of menhaden).

"A Fish Oil and Guano Factory," EDITORIAL, ibid. xxvii, 1868, p. 451 (with wood cuts of factories and fishing scenes).

“Pound fishing for menhaden."

LYMAN, On the Possible Exhaustion of Sea Fisheries, in Sixth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries (Mass.), 1872, p. 24.

"The Sardine Industry "

ANONYMOUS in Harpers Weekly, January, 1875, and Scientific American, February 6, 1875 (with wood cuts of fisheries and pro cess of manufacture).

MENHADEN USED AS FOOD

ANONYMOUS in Topography and History of Wareham, 1815, in collections of the Mass. Hist. Society, iv, second series, 1816, p. 284.

STORER, 1. c., GILL. Fishes of New York.

USE OF RAW FISH FOR MANURE

FIELD, DAVID D., in Statistical Account of the County of Middlesex, in Connecticut, 1819, p. 153.

THOMPSON, BENJAMIN F., in his History of Long Island, 1839, p. 44.

DWIGHT, TIMOTHY, in his Travels in New England, pp. 305, 513. BOARDMAN, SAMUEL L. and ATKINS, CHARLES G.

The Menhaden and Herring Fisheries | of Maine | as sources of fertilization | A Report made to the Maine Board of Agricul ture | By Samuel L. Boardman, Secretary of the Board | and | Charles G. Atkins, formerly Fish Commissioner of Maine | 8vo., 1875, pp. 67.

PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY.

The Pacific Guano Company | its History; its Products and Trade; its Relation to Agriculture | — | Exhausted Guano Islands of the Pacific Ocean; | Howland's Island, Chincha Islands | etc., etc. |— | The Swan Islands |-| The May Beds and Phosphate Rock of South Carolina | Chisolm's Island Phosphate | The Menhaden | Cambridge: | Printed for the Pacific Guano, Company | at | The Riverside Press | 1876 | Svo., pp. 63. MADDOCKS, L.

The Menhaden fishery of Maine | with statistical and historical details | its | relations to agriculture | and as a | direct source of human food || new processes, products, and discoveries |- | Published by the | Association of the Menhaden Oil and Guano Manufacturers of Maine | Press of B. Thurston & Company, Portland, 1878. Prepared by Mr. Luther Maddocks.

THE MENHADEN AS A BAIT FISH

Professor Spencer F. Baird, Testimony before the Halifax Commission, 1817, Appendix L, pp. 467, 469.

James Bradley, Testimony, Halifax Commission, 1877, Appen. dix L, p. 5.

Edward Stapleton, ib., p. 11.

Nathaniel E. Atwood, ib., p. 42.

Benjamin Maddocks, ib., p. 138.

Benjamin Ashby, ib., pp. 246–7.

Robert H. Hulbert, ib., p. 296.

Sylvanus Smith, ib., pp. 334, 341, Appendix M, p. 81.

Major David W. Low, ib., pp. 362, 364, 367, 268.

James H. Myrick, ib., p. 428.

Spencer F. Baird, ib., pp. 457, 458, 460.

William Eaton, Appendix M, p. 6.

L. G. Crane, ib., p. 8.

H. E. Willard, Cape Elizabeth, Me., pp. 10, 11.

Enoch G. Willard, ib., pp. 15, 16.

George Trefethen, ib., pp. 17, 18.
John Conley, ib., p. 21.

O. B. Whitten, ib., p. 23.
S. B. Chase, ib., pp. 25, 26.
M. N. Rich, ib., pp. 27, 28.
Noah Swett, ib., pp. 30, 31.
C. C. Pettingell, ib., pp. 33, 34.
William H. Nelson, ib., pp. 35, 36.

A. W. Small, ib., pp. 38-39.

C. E. Smalley, R. C. Kenney, ib., pp. 40, 41.

Elisha Crowell, ib., pp. 42, 43.

Caleb Nickerson, ib., pp. 45, 46.
Horatio Babson, ib., pp. 48, 49.

F. W. Friend, ib., pp. 51, 52.

George W. Plumer, ib., pp. 54, 55.

H. Knowlton, E. A. Horton, ib., pp. 57, 58.
Albion K. Pierce, ib., pp. 60, 61.

George Norwood, ib., pp. 63, 64.
Andrew Leighton, ib., pp. 66, 67.
W. C. Wonson, ib., pp. 68, 69.
George Friend & Co., ib., pp. 71, 72.
Frederick Gerring, ib., pp. 73, 74.
F. G. Wonson, ib., pp. 76, 77.
Charles H. Pew, ib., pp. 78, 79.
Mauris Whelen, ib., p. 82.
Thomas Grady, ib., p. 82.
James G. Tarr, ib., p. 83.
John E. Gorman, ib., p. 84.
Henry Hardy, ib., p. 85.
John E. Saunders, ib., p. 86.
Richard Hannan, ib., p. 86.
James G. McKean, ib., p. 195.
George Crichet, ib., p. 202.
Christopher Carrigan, ib., p. 202.
Martin Ryan, ib., p. 204.
Philip Ryan, ib., p. 204.
Andrew Laurie, ib., p. 205.
Thomas England, ib., p. 205.
Rufus Carrigan, ib., p. 206.
Charles Lowrie, ib., p. 207.

George Laidlaw, ib., p. 209.

Roderick McDonald, op. cit., p. 210.

Daniel McDonald, ib., p. 211.

Dougald McKinnon, ib., p. 212.

James R. McLean, Appendix F, pp. 24, 29.

Wm. S. McNiell, ib., p. 57.

George Mackenzie, ib., p. 132.

James McKay, ib., p. 190.

John Nicholson, ib., p. 205.
John Maguire, ib., p. 214.
James W. Bigelow, ib., p. 222.
Michael Wrayton, ib., p. 231.
James Lord, ib., p. 245.
John F. Taylor, ib., p. 299.

James A. Tory, ib., p. 323.

James Hickson, ib., p. 342.

John McLellan, ib., p. 404.

Knowles, Charles G. F., Third Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, 1871, p. 341.

« PreviousContinue »