INDEX. 1275 



Oysters, price of, 354, 895. 



Pearls, 938, 939. 



South, pearl fisheries, present value of, 937. 



States, North, pincushion-cases made of the shells of Pecten concen- 



tricus, in, 172. 

 Stoiy of a Pearl, 947, 948. 



Statistics, 887-898 ; difference between the oyster industry of Europe 

 and America, 870 ; the North American oysters, 887 ; annual 

 average of the beds for market, 888 ; number of oysters in a bushel, 

 888 ; number of oysters sold in 1859, 888 ; number of men employed 

 in the Baltimore oyster trade, in 1867, 888 ; yearly capital employed 

 in this business in New York, 888 ; the oyster an institution of 

 great importance, 888 ; custom of cooking oysters, and accomp- 

 lished in a variety of ways, 888 ; a million bushels of oysters 

 "canned " yearly by one or two finns alone, 888 ; immense num- 

 bers despatched all over the States, 888 ; ice-packed oysters sent to 

 great distances, 889 ; number of men and vessels employed in the 



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Fisheries of Maryland, 893. 



Amorphous (Gr. a and morphe wanting form) 143. 



Amrum, Island of, 645. 



Amsterdam, 183, 697. 



Analysis (Gr. analuo, I take to pieces; the resolution of a compound 

 into its component parts or elements) Chemical, of oysters, 380, 

 1213-16; of sea-water, 651, 679, 681, 1261, 1263, 1264. 



Anatomy (Gr. ana, and tome, cutting ; the art of dissecting an organized 

 body so as to discover the structure, situation, and economy of its 

 parts ; the act of dissecting or minutely examining anything) 

 Cuvier upon, 26 ; of the Invertebrata (those animals which do not 

 possess a backbone or spinal column) 1204. 



A Natural Oyster-bed defined, 1062-68. 



"Naturalist's" letter in The limes, July 9, 1884, cited 1 137-42 ; 

 Editorial comments upon, 1142-47. 



Andaman Islands, The, 200. 



Anderson, Mr., of Edinburgh, 414-18, 420, 422. 



Andre, M. Fra^ois, 515-18. 



Anglian coast, East, Temperature on the, 1033, 1035. 



Anglo-Portuguese Oysters, Price of in 1889, 354; Oyster Fishery 

 Company, The, 380. 



