INDEX. 1345 



Pliny, cited 23, 36, 39, 40, 44, 56, 160, 225, 275, 280. 



Pliocene, 143 ; meaning of the term, 201. 



Plunkett's, Mr. David, layings in Killery Bay, 359. 



Plutarch, 38. 



Plymouth, 171, 182. 



Po, The Creek of, 594. 



Poaching oysters in France, 606. 



Pododesmus, 141. 



Point Agou, 524. 



Pokamoke Sound, 207. 



Poli, 142, 151, 161. 



Testacea Utriusque Siciliae, cited, 47. 

 Pont, The Oyster Grounds of, 361, 362. 

 Pont-Avon, The river of, 539. 

 Polypes, 94 (polypodes, many feet.) 

 Polyzoa, 132, 173, 212 (Poly, many, Zoon, an animal.) 

 'Pooldoodies of Burran, 251,255. 



Poole, 251, a Museum in, desirable, 384; Bay, an oyster fishery in, 374; 



Harbour, 377 ; Act of Legislature with reference to oyster shells in, 

 374 ; cheapness and abundance of oysters in, 387 ; Corporation of, 

 and the Board of Trade, 377, 378; Corporation beds on, number 

 of oysters dredged in, from 1887-90,382,383; French system of 

 oyster culture tried at the sandbanks in, 377 ; large sized oysters 

 dredged in, 389 ; outer channel oyster bed in, how it was formed, 376 ; 

 Oyster trade in olden times, 374, 375, 376 ; large quantities sent to 

 London, from, 374 ; Oyster bank of, 374, 375; Oysters relaid to 

 fatten in the Thames, 376 ; Oysters rank next to those of Essex 

 and Kent, 376 ; Oyster piracy in, 378 ; Oyster fishers, rapacity of, 

 386, 387 ; Primitive notions of the fishermen of, concerning oysters 

 and star fish, 383, 385, 386. Pearl oysters found in, 389 ; results of 

 an afternoon's dredging in, 382 ; resuscitation o.f the old office of 

 Water Bailiff in, 378, 383 ; suicidal policy of the fishermen of 378 ; 

 South deep, the, Oyster beds in, 376. 



Oyster Fisheries, The, ref., 374 to 389; the beds composed of Lon- 

 don clay and gravel, 389 ; rapidity of growth of oysters on, 389. 



Oyster Fishery Company, the hopeful future of, 387; description of, 

 387; samples of oysters sent by, 387; various kinds fattened in, 



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