I JOO OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



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" East Rivers," why so named, 335 ; "Direct," 335 ; price of, in 1889, 

 354 ; fattened in Poole Harbour, 388. 



East River, The (ref.) 335. 



East Sea, The, bottom of, 659 ; chemical and physical difference 

 between, and the North Sea, 660. 



East Swale Bay, 357. 



Eastbourne, 262. 



Echini, or " sea eggs," " sea urchins," 56, 151, 230 ; description of the, 

 230 ; The, regarded as vermin in oyster pares, 231. 



Echinidae, The, food of, 231. 



Echinoderms (hard-skinned animals) 224, 230. 



Echinus esculentus, 660. 



Echion, 142. 



Eden and Fardin, MM., 550. 



Edinburgh (ref.) 255, 267, 271, 408 ; oysters sold in, at a shilling, 258 ; 

 veiy small oysters sold at, and why, 121. 



Fisheiy Order, 1870, The, 418 ; extent of Mr. Anderson's and the 

 Corporation's Oyster Fisheries, 418; Fishery, Inspector's Report 

 relative to, in 1869, .419; Mr. Anderson's grounds destitute of 

 oysters, 420; number of marketable oysters caught in a day, 1868, 

 419 ; contrasted with the present average daily catch, 419 ; Oyster 

 and Mussel Fishery, The, situation and account of, 418, 419 ; state 

 of, in 1876, 418, 419, 420, 421 ; oyster grounds, The, fished without 

 supervision, 419 ; dwarfed oysters in, 420 ; The Corporation of, and 

 the Newhaven fishermen, 418, 419 ; The Corporation of, blameable 

 for the reduced state of the Fishery, 419, 420, 421 ; the two inch 

 test in, 420. 



Edinburgh Natural and Philosophical Journal, cited, 1 66 ; Review, 

 cited 35, 41, 42, 43, 46. 



Eels, frequently held in dislike, and why, 307. 



Eggs, number of, laid yearly by oysters, 628 ; of the ordinary oyster 

 fecundated in the generative orifice, 613 ; of the Portuguese oyster 

 fecundated in the water, 613 ; of oysters, in what time hatched, 

 627. 



Egona, Paul, 328. 



Egyptian Pyramids, The, 21 1. 



