Excerpt from Louisiana Conservation Review, Vol. 4: January, 1934 The legislation creating the Bureau of Research indicated wide potential fields of work for this new division including, indeed, the scientific study' of Louisiana's fisheries, both fresh water and salt water, shrimp, oysters, fur-bearing animals, for estry products, mineral products and other nat ural resources. However, there was a specific instruction in the Act that the new Bureau should, as one of its first tasks, investigate the Louisiana sea shrimp. This is stated as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.