1288 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Bufibn, Count de, 23. 

 Burnham oysters, 103, 104, 145, 250, 353. 

 " native," when marketable, 354. 

 River, The, 395. 

 Burntisland Harbour, 422. 



West Pier, 422. 

 Burra Isles, 153. 

 Burton Bindon, Mr., 256. 

 "Burton Bindons," 256. 

 Bushel, A London, number ot brood, ware, and oysters in, 362 ; of 



twenty gallons, 366; price of in 1862, 370. 

 Butler, quoted, 60. 

 Bylandt, Count, 1087, 1089. 

 Byssal sinus (byssal, pertaining to byssus, and sinus, a groove or 



cavity) 164, 177, 180, 182. 

 Byssus (Lat. " fine flax ") a tuft of fibres, by which certain shell-fish are 



attached to rocks, 99. 



c. 



Caen Bay, Oysters from, planted in Poole beds, 388. 

 Caesar, Julius, 940, 942. 



A great oyster eater, 41. 

 Cailliaud, M., 949, 950. 

 Caird, Sir James, 1245. 

 Calabria, 182.1 

 Calcareous (Lat. calx, lime) partaking of the nature of lime; containing 



lime, 86. 



Calcium, the metallic base of lime, 95. 

 Califa, 940. 



California, The Gulf of, 939. 

 Callais, 272, 336. 

 "Callies,"335. 

 Calliblephara, 37, 45. 

 Callosity, skin thickened and hardened, as by constant pressure or 



friction, 196. 

 Calvados, 407. 



