INDEX. 1287 



Bromine (Gr. bromos, a stench) a deep red, malodorous, poisonous, 

 elementary fluid, extracted generally from the liquid called bittern, 

 which remains after the manufacture of sea-salt, 334. 



Brood, 229, 260, 353, 360, 361, 363, 461, 502, 562 ; price of 362 ; care 

 of in winter, 359 ; many millions of young, dredged up in 1882, 

 372 ; sale of at Herne Bay in 1877, '78, '79, 463 ; large quantities 

 of, sold at Oleron, 485 ; extravagant price offered for, in France, 

 487. 



Brooks, Dr. W. K., 644, 1144, 1145; cited 207, 208; on tile collec- 

 tors, 1170; on the fertilization of oyster eggs, 1202-4. 



Broquet, M., 609. 



Brougham, Lord, cited 87. 



Brown, Captain, 176. 



Brownsea Island, 376. 

 Castle, 382. 



Bruce, 68. 



Bruges, 271. 



Brundisium, 45. 



Brussels, 271. 



Buccinum undatum, (spiral shelled snails) 158. 



Buckland, Frank, reference to, 36, 117, 200, 259, 455, 1210; on the 

 right, proper, and natural position of the oyster at bottom of the 

 sea ; controverted by J. G. Bertram, 66 ; on the disappearance of 

 spat, or young oysters, 116 ; his statement that the oyster fisheries 

 depend upon " the natural fall of spat " controverted by Mr. C. 

 Fennel, 117; on the fall of spat, 104, 105; on the process of 

 spatting, 106-8 ; on the enemies of the oyster, 224, 225, 231-33, 

 239 ; his statement that the French system of oyster culture is no 

 better than our own, 1097 ; on cockle shells cultch, 1 173. 



Buccleugh Fishery Order, 414-416; oyster fishery exposed to un- 

 restricted dredging, 414; large quantities of brood exported thence 

 to Holland, 414; the ground let to Mr. Anderson in if 67, 414; 

 fished by him with a steamer and four smacks, 414 ; experimental 

 laying down in, of oysters from Orkney, Stranraer, and Swansea, 

 415; unsuccessful hauls in, 415; hopeless productiveness in the 

 future of the, 415; the Duke of, and the Edinburgh Corporation, 

 415, 418, 419; the Mussel Order in connection with the oyster 

 fishery, 416. 



