1312 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



of public fishing on these beds, 698 ; important changes in the 

 geographical situation of the beds, 698 ; effect on the salinity of 

 the water, 698 ; the Yerseke oyster bed withdrawn from public 

 fishery, 698 ; value of, to the Government, 699 ; spat collectors, 



699 ; the placing of tiles dependent on circumstances, not theory, 



700 ; value of one locality above another for ostricultural purposes 

 confirmed by experience, 701 ; facts and figures in support of the 

 foregoing, 701 ; fluctuation of spat, 701, 702 ; dredging allowed at 

 any time, 702 ; new beds discovered, 703, 704 ; experiments in the 

 fixation of larvae, 705-7 ; the re-stocking and methodic improve- 

 ments of the Zuyderzee beds by the Government, 708 ; the ques- 

 tion of Hybridation, 707, 708 ; Captain Anson on the oyster beds 

 of, 1080 ; Loi'd Montagu on the great advantage of the methods 

 pursued in, 1084 ; Count Bylandt on the Netherland Fisheries, 

 1087. 



Holstein, 273, 274. 



Holy Land, The, 187. 



Holy Loch Fishery Order, 1869, The, 427 ; Oyster and Mussel Fishery, 

 The, 427; state of, in 1876,427; plantation of oysters from Ire- 

 land, dead or in a dying state, 427 ; bad choice of ground for 

 cultivation, 427 ; effect on oysters by the stirring of surface mud 

 near, 427 ; gross neglect of the ground in, 427, 428 ; amount spent 

 in obtaining the order for, 428 ; abandonment of, 428 ; contem- 

 plated renewal of, 428. 



Homfray's Ghat, 200. 



Hone's Eveiy Day Book, cited 283. 



Horace, quoted 1 8, 36, 48, 49, 50, 275. 



" Horse-feet " oysters, 668. 



Horst, Dr., 705. 



Hubrecht, Professor, Oyster Culture and Oyster Fisheries in the 

 Netherlands, 114, 644, cited 261, 696-708, 1087-90. 



Humphreys, 1 66, 171. 



Hungerford, 247. 



Huningue, 673. 



Hunter, John, 21. 



Hurdles, metallic, used for spat, 544. 



Husum, 272-4, 645. 



Hutchins' History of Dorset, cited 375, 376. 



