INDEX. 



I2 99 



Donovan, 188. 



D'Orbigny, 1265, 1269, 1270. 

 Dorset, coast of, 172, 188. 

 double praire, 68 1, 684. 

 Down, County, 226. 



Dredge, The, described, 265 ; weight of, 266, 649, 1041, 1042 ; fatal to 

 spawn, 115, 217, 220 ; how to estimate the thickness of oysters 

 upon a bed, by, 1095, 1096. 



Dredges proposed to be worked by steam power, 349 ; deep sea, 1042. 

 Dredgers, skilled. 649, 1096; Company of Free, 57, 1176; Liberties 

 granted to, 57 ; the Whitstable, 359; rapacity of, 364; cost of 

 license, 387. 



Dredgermen's Co-operative Society, the Emsworth, 409, 411, 413. 

 Dredging, Use of, 4 r >i ; processes of, described, 264, 265-67 ; absolutely 

 necessary in summer, 257; maximum depth of, by English and 

 French fishermen, 349 ; constant, requisite, and why, 364 ; the 

 right of, held by the lords of the manor, 367 ; results of an after- 

 noon's on Poole Harbour, 382; effect of regular, upon the ground, 

 501; German, vessels, 649; method of, at Schleswig-Holstein, 

 649; in France, 1041; in England, 1041; difficulties attending, 

 at night and in rough weather, 1046; the Channel, boats, 1046; 

 during the prevalence of winds from unfavourable quarters, 1047; 

 supposed case in illustration of the foregoing, 1047, 1048 ; opinion s 

 of the fishermen on, 980-82 ; and overdredging, 1009-17; sugges- 

 ted laws for, 1024; Professor Huxley on overdredging, 1239-56. 

 Dublin, 189, 255, 256. 

 Duchelas, MM. & Co., 554. 



Duke of Argyll, The, on the Government, 1131, 1132, 1148, 1149. 

 Dunkirk, 274. 

 Dupeux-Boyer, M., 560. 



Dutch, Exportation of English oysters to the, 56, 57, 61. 

 oyster and Whitstable native, 353. 

 oysters, highly commended, 354. 



importation of, in 1888, 354. 

 will not live transplanted to English waters, 354. 

 at the Central Fish Market, 355. 

 passed off for Colchester natives, 356. 

 Oyster Culture, 1083, 1084, iio5. 



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