CHAPTER XLI. 



PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON ARTIFICIAL 



OYSTER CULTURE. 



PREAMBLE LIFE ON AN OYSTER BANK FATTENING OYSTERS 

 GAS IN BEDS OVERFISHING THE OBJECT OF OYSTER CULTURE 

 DESCRIPTION OF A " NATURAL OYSTER BED " LAKE FUSARO 

 THE FRENCH METHOD OF OYSTER CULTURE IMPOSSIBLE IN 

 GERMANY THE OLD ENGLISH METHOD BETTER THAN THE 

 FRENCH NEW ONE FRANK BUCKLAND'S OPINION THE CLI- 

 MATIC THEORY FAILURE OF BASIN CULTURE IN ENGLAND 

 AND FRANCE DUTCH OYSTER CULTURE LORD MONTAGU'S 

 EXPERIMENTS AT BEAULIEU SUSPENSION AND DISAPPEAR- 

 ANCE OF SPAT DR. HOEK'S OPINION ON ENGLISH OYSTER 

 CULTURE NUMBER OF OYSTERS WHICH MAY BE TAKEN FROM 

 A BED WITHOUT INJURY TO ITS PRODUCTIVENESS SCHLESWIG- 

 HOLSTEIN BEDS HOW TO ESTIMATE THE THICKNESS OF OYSTERS 

 UPON A BED BY THE DREDGE ARCACHON REFUTATION OF 

 THE CLIMATIC THEORY IRELAND CAUSE OF THE FAILURE IN 

 BASIN CULTURE REGNEVILLE ADVICE TO THE BRITISH PUB- 

 LIC __ T HE MARQUIS OF LORNE ON " OYSTER CULTURE " COST 

 OF A PROVISIONAL ORDER PROFESSOR LANKESTER ON STATE 

 AID THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY REARING OF 

 OYSTERS FROM ARTIFICIALLY-FERTILIZED EGGS THE ZOOLO- 

 GICAL STATION AT NAPLES THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON THE 

 GOVERNMENT THE BOARD OF TRADE. 



" Under a good government the land brings forth its fruit, and the 

 sea yields its fish." Homer's Odyssey. 



