1320 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Le Vivier-sur-Mer, 527; M. Barbet's success at, 531 ; effect of the winter 

 of 1870-71 upon the oyster industry of, 532-533 ; the first collectors 

 placed on the shores of, 531 ; the foreshore at, 531 ; frequent 

 changing of the fascines at, 533 ; great abundance of mussels at, 

 533; how ostriculture has been introduced at, 531; marvellous 

 growth of the oyster at, compared with that of Les Sables 

 d'Olonne, 533 ; marvellous rapidity of development and growth of 

 therein, 534 ; methods of working the oyster pares at, different 

 from those of Cancale, 531 ; M. Meury de Villers' attempt at, 

 531 ; M. de la Gervinais's ostricultural efforts, 533-534 ; Madame 

 Sarah Felix and her new spat collectors, 532 ; neither time to bury 

 nor to gather the mussels, 533 ; reason for this, 533 ; number of 

 oysters in the pares at, 533 ; oysters fattened in a mill sluice at, 

 534 ; oyster parcing very difficult at, 532 ; originally a fishing 

 place, 531 ; the pares of, 531 ; progress of parcing at, 532 ; rearing 

 on collectors successful at, 531 ; reproduction the main object at, 



531- 

 Lias rocks, an argillaceous limestone, 213. 



Licinius Crassus, 37, 38, 40, 42, 45. 



Liebig, cited 96. 



Life, agency of, 93. 



Lille, 271, 351. 



Lilljeborg, 153. 



Limes, 79- 



Limpets, 34, 149, 200; limpet shells, 54. 



Lineata, 171. 



Linnaeus, 23, 58, 101, 141, 147, 150, 151, 162, 165, 170, 185, 283. 



List, complete of, species and varieties of oysters, 141, 1265. 



Lister, Dr. Martin, 57, 149, 155, 172, 187 ; Historia Conchyliorum, refer- 

 ence to, 147 ; the first to describe the anatomy of the oyster, 154 ; 

 Pecten Pusio, 160, 162-5. 



Littoral mollusca, 169. 



Zone, 152 ; Littus, a shore. 



Lithodomes, molluscs which bore in rocks and lodge in them, 76. 



Loch Fyne, 175, 176; Spynie, 206; Torridon, 171. 



Locmariaker, 548. 



London (ref.), 145, 255, 260, 272, 314, 326, 331, 333, 335, 358, 375> 

 447, 605 ; clay, the, 211, 363, 389 ; annual consumption of oysters 



