INDEX. 1277 



ANOMIIDAE, the family, 139; described, 141; connected with the 

 OstreiJae, 141. 



Anson and Willett's, Messrs., " Artificial Oyster Cultivation," cited 

 1009-1026, 1028, 1036-1053, 1057, 1074, 1154-1170, 1 173-1 18*, 

 1205-1212, 1219-1237. 

 Captain, 1051, 1080. 



Antibes, 176. 



Antwerp, 27 r. 



Aphides (Gr. aphis, a plant-louse) a tribe of the sub-order homoptera, 

 225. 



apida, 325. 



Apicius' receipts for cooking oysters, 283. 

 and Lucullus, 325, 326. 



Apion, 325. 



Apollonius, 946. 



April, Temperature of the coast waters in, 1034. 



the Dogger, 1034. 



Aquafortis (Lat. aqua, water, audfortis, strong) impure nitric acid, 90. 



Aquarium, The Brighton, 122. 



Arabia, 239. 



Arabian, The Pearl Fisheries, 937. 



Bards, Notions of the early, about Pearls, 918. 



Arborization, Arborescence in Minerals, 537. 



Arcachon, Reference to, 178, 184, 335, 377, 379, 407, 484, 502, 503, 

 520, 561, 562, 563, 566, 571, 581, 607, 614, 616, 621, 632, 634, 

 672, t>74, 677, 682, 683, 685, 698, 1077, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1088, 

 1095, 1096, 1097; Pares at, 116, 117; oysters from, fattened i:i 

 Poole Harbour, 388 ; laid down in Emsworth Harbour, 408 ; 

 "guardians" at, 489; method of working, 498-500; Professor 

 Huxley on the Fisheries of, 1252-1255 ; partly stocked with oysters 

 from Ireland, 1102; statistical information concerning, 877-79; 

 exemption of, from the abolition of close time, 502 ; one of the 

 most important oyster centres on the French coast, 545 ; without 

 a rival in the world, 571. 



Bay of, described, 1252 ; compared with the Sea Flats of Schleswig 

 Holstein, 653 ; difference between ordinary high and low tide in 

 the, 653 ; compared with that of the North Sea, 653 ; whelk 

 tingles on oyster ground in the, 124 ; the use of boxes not so fre- 

 quent in Brittany as at, and why, 598. 



