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circumstances under which the Inquiry arose, 458 ; memorial from 

 the Fishermen of Whitstable and Faversham, 458 ; counter memo- 

 rial from the inhabitants of, 459 ; Act of 1864, 459 ; dredging by 

 the Company, 461 ; extent of the Fishery, 461 ; the Company's 

 stock beds, 461 ; number of men and boats employed by, 461 ; the 

 Company deprived of grounds by the Board of Trade, in 1876, 462 ; 

 the Company's surrender of its fishery at South Deep, 462 ; sale of 

 oysters to Mr. Gann, 462, 463 ; to Mr. Roots, 462-64 ; Mr. 

 Lovely's evidence, 464-67 ; Mr. Jeffries' statement, 4^5 ; Mr. 

 William Rose's statement, 465, 466 ; the Company's inefficiency, 

 467-9 ; what the Company's embarrassments were, 470 ; Mr. 

 Bennett's defence of the Company, 471 ; the Company's sale of 

 oysters forced on them by financial necessities, 471 ; the Company 

 and Mr. Davies, 472-77 ; Mr. Walpole on the state of affairs, 473- 

 77; results of dredging on the grounds, on the I3th of August, 

 1876, 468, 479. 



Hidalgo, 187. 



Hill, Georgiana, How to cook Fish, cited 297, 300. 



Hinnites (so called by Defrance, but proved by Sowerby and Dr. 

 Fischer to be a true Pecten), 164. 



Hippocrates, 226. 



Hippopus (a variety of the Ostrea edulisj, 152. 



History, Natural, Object and utility of, 29, 30. 



Hockin, 181. 



Hoek, Dr., no, 644, 705. 



" Oyster Culture," cited 643, 644. 

 On Dutch Oyster Culture, 1078. 



Holland, 178, 274, 333, 335, 355, 375, 414, 645,894, 1005; Oyster 

 Culture in, 696-708 ; the islands of, 646 ; many oysters taken north 

 of, 651; total production of oysters in 1889, 354; Professor 

 Hubrecht on " Oyster Culture in the Netherlands," 696 et seq. ; 

 oysters once plentiful, 696 ; where the beds were situated, 696 ; 

 oysters brought to market in Amsterdam, and partly exported to 

 Germany, 696, 697 ; no regular oyster trade in that part of the 

 country, 697 ; the present oyster trade concentrated in Zeeland, 

 697 ; natural oyster beds in Zeeland, 697 ; Dutch natives, 697 ; 

 oyster fishing on the Schelde, 697 ; a close time for seven months, 

 697, 698 ; gradual impoverishment of the beds, 698 ; prohibition 



