1284 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Black Sea, The, 144. 



Blackwater Oyster Fishery, The, 390-93 ; state of in 1869, 391-93 ; in 

 1876, 396-400; value of stock oysters laid down in 1868,391; 

 extent of, 391 ; oysters of good quality in, 392 ; number of men 

 and boats employed on, 392, 393 ; expenditure of the Company, 

 392,393; when established, 391; contrasted with neighbouring 

 oyster fisheries, 400 ; heavy fall of spat in 1 88 1, 



River, The, Boat Registry Regulations strictly carried out in, 395 ; 

 little or no spat on the ground of in 1876, 397 ; price of oysters per 

 bushel in 1876, 397 ; Return of receipts, expenditure, &c., of, from 

 1868-76, 398; account of capital and dividend, 399; inspection of 

 the grounds of, unsatisfactoiy, 399, 400. 



Blake, C. Carter, 24. 



Blanchereau, M., 642. 



Blankenese, 651. 



Blavet, The river, 542. 



Bloxam's Chemistry, cited 679. 



Blubber, 1229. 



"Blue Points," why so named, 335 ; Price of in 1889, 354. 



Board of Trade, The, 390, 393, 396, 407, 408, 415, 416, 419, 431, 440, 

 451, 457, 459, 462, 471-73, 475-77, 57, 5 8 3> 6l , 9 8 9> 997, 1019, 

 1150-53 ; and the Fishermen of Poole, 3/6-79, 445, 452. 



Boat Registry Regulations, 395. 



Boerhaave, Dr., 316. 



Bceuf, successful experiments of, at He de Re, 484, 485, 490. 



Bohemia, 213. 



Bohuslan, Sweden, Post-glacial beds of, 143. 



Bon, M. de, 534; experiments at St. Servan, 509, 510; effect of at the 

 present time, 511. 



Bonn on the Rhine, 647. 



Bordeaux, The Exhibition of, 611, 621. 



Borkum, 646. 



Bosham, 408; harbour, 993; Fishery Order of 1873, 400-2; Dredger- 

 man's Co-operative Society, 401 ; state of fishery grounds in 1877, 

 401, 402. 



Boston Deeps, Fishery Order of 1870, The, 402-5 ; state of the grounds 

 at in 1876, 402-5; complaints of dredgermen and merchants 

 against the Corporation of, 403 ; oyster beds denuded by over- 



