INDEX. 1289 



Camac, M., 534, 535. 

 Campbell, J. Duncan, 868. 

 Canada, 938. 



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Canaries, The, 187. 



Cancale, 274, 484, 520, 522, 527, 531, 663, 1251, 1255; Deep sea beds, 

 number of oysters dredged from, in 1863 and 1851, 341. 



Annual record of oysters produced at, from 1800-1868, 879, 880. 



Mobius on the impoverishment of the beds of, 879-82. 



The Middens of, 483, 509. 



The methods of training in use at, 528 ; area of conceded grounds at, 

 528; pares and layings at, 528; t\vo elements of destruction at, 

 528, 529 ; perpetual cleaning of the pares, 529 ; number of persons 

 employed in this work, 529 ; at what age oysters become saleable 

 at, 529; oyster merchants, 529; successful experiments to collect 

 escaped spat, 529, 530; description of the pare constructed for this 

 purpose, 530; object of the Administration in the construction of 

 the same, 530 ; measures of surveillance for the preservation of 

 oyster banks at, 530 ; purpose of the syndical commission at, 530; 

 all the concessions worked, 531 ; pares abandoned at, 531. 

 Bay, Area of oyster beds in, 481 ; overdredging in, 481, 482 ; oysters 

 a yard thick, 481; oysters, by what distinguished, 527, 528; com- 

 plete wreck of, in 1870, 482. 

 Cape of Good Hope, 163, 233. 

 Carbonate of lime (a compound formed by the union of carbonic acid 



and lime) 95. 

 of strontium (the base of strontia, from Strontites, so called by Dr. 



Hope, as first discovered by him at Strontium, Argyleshire) 95. 

 of potash (pot and ashes) vegetable fixed alkali in an impure state, 



procured from the ashes of plants, 315. 



Carbonic acid, a gaseous combination of carbon and oxygen, 77. 

 Cardium edule, 652. 

 Cardita sulcata, 68 1. 

 Carlingford oyster, The, 255. 

 Caronte, Lake, 685. 



Pond of, 635. 

 Carpenter, W. B., 1136. 



Dr. Philip, 142, 149, 157. 

 Cartilage, gristle; an elastic substance, 143. 



