INDEX. 1329 



Northumberland, 175, 235. 



Norway, 154, 176, 178, 181, 184 185, 187, 209, 629; M. Fredrik M. 

 Wallem on Norwegian Oyster Culture, 709-12 ; cheap and dear oys- 

 ters, 709 ; overfishing and carelessness, 709 ; warm water basins 

 discovered 709 ; export of oysters in, 1881, 710 ; difficulties to be 

 overcome in establishing oyster culture on the shores of, 710; 

 Lieutenant-General Wergeland's experiments, 710-12; encouraging 

 hopes for the future, 712. 



Nott, John, Cook's and Confectioner's Dictionary, cited 292. 



Number of oysters to square yard, 798, 799. 



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Oban, 167. 



Ocean, The Arctic, 169; Atlantic, 571; German, 643 ; Indian, 190. 

 World, The, cited, 65, 190, 216, 230, 231, 309, 310, 313, 314, 315, 679. 



Octopus Vulgaris, 310.' 



CEsophagus, 73. (The gullet) 



Oldenburg, 643. 



Old Cooking Book, cited 287, 288, 301. 



Oleron, He de, references, 557, 564, 566, 612, 623, 632, 684; 300,000 

 unlimed tiles immersed at, 562, 563 ; 250,000 brood oysters sent 

 from Arcachon, 162 ; a dependency of Marennes, 562 ; condition 

 of the industry at, in 1875 ; Dredged oysters grow more rapidly 

 than tiled, at, 563 ; reason why, 563 ; difference between the spat 

 from Brittany and Arcachon, at, 563 ; interposition of the Adminis- 

 tration of Marine, 562 ; model pares organised by, 562 ; Mussels 

 buried at, 533 ; M. Gaboriaud's ostricultural efforts at, 563 ; 

 number of edible oysters in the pares of, in 1876, 563 ; number of 

 oysters taken from the beds of, from 1853 to 1864, 482 ; number of 

 pares at, in the localities opposite the mouth of the Seudre, 562 ; 

 number of young and spat in, impossible to estimate, 563, 564 ; 

 overdredging at, 482 ; Oysters from the North develop more 

 quickly in the South, but not an absolute rule, 563 ; Oysters of 

 Portugal cited as an example, 563 ; the younger the oysters, the 

 the quicker the development, at, 563 ; Pares abandoned in 1873, 



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