1286 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



District of, contains the greatest number of oyster beds, 536 ; 

 exhausted by the cupidity of fishermen, 536; effect of over- 

 dredging in the Bay of, 536 ; the fishermen not solely to blame for 

 the destruction therein, 536 ; natural circumstances have helped to 

 complete it, 536; extent of the Bay of, 537; marauders and the 

 Fishery Guard in, 537 ; coercive measures powerless to repress 

 their rapacity, 537 ; similar state of affairs at present, 537 ; the 

 Bay of, delusive to an ostriculturist, 538 ; M. Thomas and the 

 concession called Moulin-Blanc, 538. 



Breton oyster, The, 407, 504; superior to those of Belgium, 503 ; larger 

 than those of Ostend, 503 ; do not readily propagate on the 

 Mediterranean coast, and why, 605. 



Brewster, Sir David, cited 88. 



Brighton, 201. 



Brindisi, Natural oyster beds at, 664, 676 ; supplies Rome, Florence, 

 &c., with oysters, 664. 



British Medical Journal, The, Jan. 25, and Feb. 15, 1890, cited 1188, 

 1189. 



British Channel, bottom of, 272 ; oyster grounds of, 273. 

 Seas, The, 157, 169, 235 ; Museum, The, 182. 



Brittany, Reference to, 154, 166, 248, 332, 524, 536, 551, 554, 563, 

 566, 568, 582, 597, 603, 607, 608, 614 ; formerly famous for its 

 oysters, 503 ; cultivation of, much the same as at Whitstable and 

 Colchester, 503 ; ostricultural stations of, part and parcel of each 

 other, 536 ; each corresponds to one phase in the rearing of the 

 oyster, 536 ; Le Vivier produces the spat, 536 ; Grand Camp 

 affords the rearing in the first stage, 536 ; at La Hougue and 

 Cancale the Oysters grow and fatten, 536 ; and Courseulle pre- 

 pares them for sending away, 536 ; spat from, used at Grand 

 Camp, 517; experiments in rearing oysters from, at La Hougue, 

 520 ; Vhuitre a, tessons substituted for the use of boxes in, 598 ; 

 this expression explained, 599. 



Brittle-star, The, 229. 



Britton and Brayley, History of Dorset, cited 54, 375. 



Brocchi, M., Report on oyster culture on the shores of the Channel 

 and of the ocean, cited 583-609; object of the Report, 583, 584; 

 introduction to, 584-86. 



Broderip, 149, 150. 



