INDEX. 1327 



Muswell Bay, 234. 



Mya arenaria, sand grained gaping bivalve, 652. 



Mytilus edulis, edible mussel, 652. 



N. 



Nacre, what it is, 92. 

 Nacton, 1074. 



Naples, (ref.) 34, 47, 153, 314, 663, 664, 666, 675; Gulf of, 168 ; 

 oysters found near the rocks of Castel, 663 ; fished by hand, 663 ; 

 Products entirely consumed in the vicinity, 663. 

 Nardo's opinion of the Teredo, 279. 

 Nassa incrassata, 169. 

 reticulata, 200. 

 Narbonne, 636, 676. 



National Agricultural Institution, The, 584. 



Natives (ref.) 251, 255, 333,"362, 496, 502 ; advice to oyster cultivators 

 relative to, 352 ; a popular error in the term, 67 ; British, 244, 

 275; Channel, 272; Dutch, 697; described, 333, 363; " first " 

 and " second," 503 ; French, 641, or Gravette oysters ; (Arcachon) 

 57 2 > 573. 574 5 Method of " working ' the, 363 ; Melting, 244 ; 

 Royal, described, 323, 333 ; to which oysters the name is usually 

 applied, 363, 367 ; their superior flavour and quality of, 363 ; 

 flesh, how obtained, 363 ; Whitstable, shell and meat of, 121. 

 Native oysters eighteenpence each, 1021. 

 Natural Histoiy (Pliny) vol. 6, ed. Bohn, 41, 45. 

 Annals of, cited 79-81, 238. 

 Review, 1863, cited 206. 

 Natural Oyster Bed, description oi, 1062-68; and native, distinction 



between, 364.' 



Nature of the sea bottom, 1040-41. 

 Nautilus , The pearly, 212; Cephalopodous molluscs provided with a 



boat-like expansion by which they sail. 

 Navicula, 156, 164 (Lat. navicula, a little ship.) 

 Naze, The, 367. 

 Nereis pelagica, a ring-worm of a changeable bluish colour, 1058. 



