INDEX. 1285 



fishing, 404 ; culpable neglect of the Corporation with regard to 

 the fisheries, 404, 405, 436. 



Bouchard-Chantereaux, 144. 



Bouchon-Brandely, M., and MM. Montauge, Freres, experiments by, 

 591; advice relative to Treguier, 504; Report on the oyster 

 beds of Brittany, cited, 503-7 ; Report on oyster culture on the 

 shores of the Channel and of the ocean, in 1876, cited 507-82; 

 Report on the generation and artificial fecundation of oysters, 1882, 

 in 1882, cited, 610-642; Report on oyster culture in the Mediter- 

 ranean, 1878, cited, 662-92. 



Boulogne, 211. 



bouquet or champignon, 598. 



Bout-du-Roc, 522. 



Brachiopoda (Gr. brachion, the arm, and pous, the foot) a class of 

 marine mollusca, furnished with a bivalve shell, attached to sub- 

 marine objects by a stalk which passes through an aperture in one 

 of the valves, and furnished with fringed arms, by the action of 

 which food is carried to the mouth, 132; why so termed, 132; 

 inferior to the Conchifera, 132 ; general characters of 132, 133 ; by 

 what distinguished from the Lamellibranchiate mollusca, 132 ; the 

 valves of, called dorsal and ventral, 132 ; attachment of, by 

 peduncle, 132, 133; the peduncle wanting in some cases, 132; the 

 cilia of, 132; possessed of no ligament, 132; arms of the, 133; 

 body of the, 133 ; possessed of two hearts, 133 ; structure of the 

 shell peculiar, 133 ; all marine, 133 ; fossil species of, exceedingly 

 numerous, 133. 



Branchiae, (Gr. and Lat.) gills or organs for respiration in water, 73, 

 81, 102, 104. 



Branchial cavity (branchial, pertaining to gills or branchiae) 1 06. 



Brand, 246. 



Brande and Taylor's Chemistry, 282. 



Brandt, Professor, 222. 



Brazil, 201. 



Breeding of oysters, Artificial, 1162-5. 



Bremer oysters, 274. 



Breneguy-en-Locmariaquer, 1078. 



Brest Roads, The oyster beds of utterly ruined, 504, 505 ; exempted 

 from the abolition of close time in France, 502. 



