1280 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Ascidians (Ascidiae, Gr. askidion, a small leathern bottle) an order of 

 molluscoids, 430. 



Ascidia cynthia, 68 1 . 



Ash worth, Pamphlet on the French Oyster Fisheries, cited 492. 



Asia, Passion for pearls in, 945. 



Association, The Sea Fisheries of La Trinite, 550. 



The Marine Biological, 1122, 1137, 1138, 1146, 1147, 1150. 



Astarte, 144. 



Asterias, star-fish, or radiate animals, 225. 



Astyris, 240, 241. 



Athenaeum, The, Nov. 22, 1890, cited 1147, 1150. 



Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, cited 33, 46, 47, 188, 278. 



Atkins', Mr. Robert, proposal for building Steam Fishing Vessels, 349. 



Atlantic Ocean, The, 679, 1029. 



Sea-bed, The process of elevation and depression in, 169. 



Atrophied (arrested in development at a very early stage) 164. 



Aucapitaine, M., 199. 



Aughinish Bay, 256. 



August, Temperature in the British coasts in, 1033. 



North Sea, 1033, 1034. 



Channel, JOJS- 



round Ireland, IO 33- 



Auld Reekie's civic ceremonials, 267. 



Auray, Reference to, 407, 535, 540, 541, 545, 546, 549, 559, 603, 607, 

 608, 1016; M. de Thevenard's establishment at Le Rocher, near, 

 546; method of using spat collectors at, 547, 548; claires at Le 

 Rocher, 546 ; method of coating collectors, 547 ; use of the oyster 

 cases, 548; number of oysters exported from 187^-77 to 1880-81, 

 597 ; a Museum of Oyster Culture at, 609. 



District of, state of ostriculture in, 550-552 ; total number of oyster 

 establishments conceded and worked in, 551 ; number of pares and 

 claires comprised therein, 551; approximate value thereof, 551; 

 oysters sold out of these pares and price received, 551.' number 

 and value of spat sold during the season of 1875-76, 551 ; number 

 of spat born in 1874, 551 ; number of spat in pares of, in 

 1876, 551, 552 ; number of working days of the staff employed in 

 the pares, 552 ; general result of this work, 552 ; Table showing 

 results of oyster fishing in, from 1876 to 1881, 595. 



