1304 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Fishing vessels, present ones too small, 349. 



"five-fingers," 224, 225, 232. 



Flanders, 271. 



Fleet Street, The Cock, in, 262. 



Fleming, 176, 184. 



"Flight of the Lapwing," The, 275, 276, 284 



"Flint chips," 54. 



"floatsome," (spat) 3*61, 496. 



Flora, 197. The plants of a district. 



Florence, 663. 



Flushing, 354. 



Fluviatile (belonging to rivers) 67. 



Fohr, The Island of, 645, 648. 



Food, curiosities of, 305-307. 



Forbes, E., Professor, 57, 154, 166, 172, 183, 184, 226. 



Forbes and Hanley, Messrs., 142, 144, 147, 148, 151, 162, 165, 166, 



170, 173, 176, 181, 185. 

 Foreland, The North, 367. 

 Fort Espagnol, pares, reproduction at, 540. 



Samson, France, 517. 

 Fos, The Gulf of, 638. 

 Fossemort, near St. Malo, concession to M. Camac, in 1873, 534; his 



subsequent success, 534, 535 ; his lessons from a series of mishaps, 



535 ; troublesome efforts with, 534 ; first claires excavated at, 534 ; 



green oysters at, 535 ; oysters brought from Auray to, and future 



prospects of the industry, 535. 



Fossil oysters, bed near Reading, 206 ; banks forty miles in length, 206. 

 Fowley Island, 379 ; Oyster Fishery Company, The, 379. 

 Francatelli. Cook's Guide cited 286, 287, 298. 

 France (ref.) 57, 166, 244, 321, 334, 335, 340, 641, 651, 672. 

 North of, 172, 187. 

 South of, 274 ; The birthplace of pisciculture, 508, 509 ; number of 



hectares in, devoted to the, 509 ; The College of Pisciculture and 



Ostriculture, origin and cause of, 508 ; The coast fishery decrees of, 



1853, in connection with the present fishing prosperity in, 511; 



effect of the State experiments in, 511 ; The coast fishery decrees 



of 1853, 529. 

 Franco-Dutch Oysters, 335, 336. 



