INDEX. 1333 



a great eater, 314; Montaigne, 314; Eaters, disgusting wagers 

 by, 317, 318; Instructions for eaters, 304; Large, The Emperor 

 Vitellius, the greatest of all, 314 ; The Germans, great eaters, 317 ; 

 Eating, what to avoid in, 339 ; benefits of, 740 ; eating, revival of, 

 in England, 54 ; strange custom of the Ancient Romans with regard 

 to, 40, 41 ; eating in Prussia, 317; eggs addled, 1 06; eggs, 1 12; 

 eggs set free at once, 109 ; not incubated in the mantle cavity of 

 the parents, 109 ; Embryo, 105 ; enemies, animate and inanimate, 

 224; many years of an, 370, 371; in the Bay of Brest, 

 537 ; red seaweed in the Bay of Brest, 537 ; Family, and 

 that of the anomia, difference between, 150; Farm, Economy 

 of an, 358, 359 ; Guide to the working of very large, 359 ; 

 Fanners, deplorable imprudence of, 352, 353; Farming, 118, 

 340, 341 ; Feasts, sumptuous, of the Ancient Romans, 38 ; fry, 

 113, 142; misapplication of the term, 105; reference to, 155; 

 white fry of, what constitutes it, 1 12 ; Forcemeat, 296 ; Fritters, 298 ; 

 Hammerheaded, 190; derivation of name, 190; description of, 190; 

 Hatching, uncertainty of, 345, 346 ; Harbour, why so called, 69 ; 

 has no head, 71; heart of the, 74; hermaphrodite, 58, no; 

 opposition to this view, no; how attacked by crab, 56 ; how 

 attacked by starfish, 61 ; How to find, breed, cook and eat an, 

 cited 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 50, 53, 242, 243, 244, 246, 247, 248, 249, 

 251,254,255,262,263,264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 280, 281, 317, 

 321, 357, 358, 362, 374; Indulgences of our forefathers, 282; 

 Infant, and its first nutriment, 99 ; its attachment to the rock, 99, 

 119; intestine of the, 73; Island, 69; its voyage to market and 

 journey by rail, 267, 268 ; its own architect and builder, 84; Life, 

 controversies about, 110, in, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 

 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125; life of, natural term of the, 109, 118, 

 156 ; liquor, effect of, on the hands, 337 ; liver of the, 73 ; Loaves, 

 299: male and female, sexual products of, when produced, 113; 

 metallic element of iron spring water hurtful to the, 578; mouth, 

 73, 446; mouth soup, 286; and Mussel Fisheiy Act, 1866, 391 ; 

 and confirmation, 391 ; most savoury part of, 314, 315 ; Moncecious, 

 103 ; natural position of, when at the bottom of the sea, 66 ; Nodules 

 of the, 74; not fluviatile, 67; not insensible to pain, 222; not 

 possessed of a tongue, 7Q ; not a fish, 64 ; number of young in the, 

 104, 105, 124; "Nurseries," 123; oesophagus (or gullet) of the, 



