135 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



burgh Oyster and Mussel Fishery in 1876, 418-421 ; The Mid Forth 

 Oyster and Mussel Fishery in 1876, 421-423; The Greshernish 

 Oyster Fishery in 1 876, 423-425 ; The Hamble Oyster Fishery in 

 1877,425,426; The Holy Loch Oyster and Mussel Fishery in 

 1877, 427,428; The Langston Oyster Fishery in 1877, 429-431; 

 The Lynn Deeps Oyster and Mussel Fishery in 1876, 431-437; 

 The Swansea Oyster Fishery in 1876, 445-451 ; of the Irish Fish- 

 ery Commissioners in 1874, cited 256 ; on Oyster Fisheries, 1876, 

 cited 256, 257, 258, 259 ; on the Oyster Beds of the James River, 

 Va, and of Tangier and Pocomoke Sounds, Maryland and Virginia, 

 1881 ; cited 240, 252 ; by Mr. H. C. Pennell to the Board of Trade 

 upon the state of the Oyster Fisheries in the Rivers Blackwater and 

 Roach, in 1869, 390, 395; in 1876, 396-400; The Paglesham 

 Oyster Fishery in 1876, 437-439 ; The Roach River Oyster Fishery 

 in 1876, 440-444; by Mr. Spencer Walpole to the Board of Trade 

 upon the Oyster Fisheries of Herne Bay in 1881, 452-479. 



Reproduction of the Oyster, 100, 101 ; opinion relative to modes of, 

 101. 



"Rested " beds, 504. 



Reveille-Parise, cited 313, 314. 



Rhizophoreae, 68. 



Rhomboidal, 161. 



Rice, Mr. J. H., 644. 



Richardson's (the famous fire eater) odd way of cooking an oyster, 284. 



Richborough, 38, 45, 56, 57, 282. 



Ring, The, an advantage to an Oyster Fishery, 446, 447 ; Rings for 

 measurement, 1050-52; the object of, 1050; "ring" laws more 

 honoured in the breach than the observance, 1050; a fallacious test 

 as to the age and condition of an oyster, 1051. 



River Adour, The, 632, 633 ; Auray, The, 545, 546, 548, 551, 553, 594, 

 596 ; Bidasoa, The, 693 ; Blackwater, 249 ; Blavet, The, or 

 Hennebont, 542 ; Bono, 547; Charente, The, 612, 632, 633; 

 Colne, The, 249; Eider, The, 647, 652, 658; Elbe, The, 646, 

 647, 651, 658 ; Ems, The, 647, 658 ; Gironde, The, 380, 381, 570, 

 592, 593. 6l2 6l 7> 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 628, 631, 633, 635, 

 638, 674 ; Hennebont, The, or Blavet, 542 ; Ilha do Governador, 

 201 ; Isigny, The, 518 ; Jahde, The, 658; La Trinite, also called the 

 river of Crach, 545, 547, 549, 550, 551, 594, 595; of Morbihan, 



