1348 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



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Ramsgate, 211. 



Rambaud, 634. 



Ranee, The river, 534. 



Ratzeburg, Professor, 222. 



Rays, symmetrically shaped, and why, 131. 



Razor-shell, or solen, foot of the, 138. 



Re, He de, aggregate number of oysters in the claires of, 488 ; average 

 dimensions of, 560 ; Bceuf's successful experiments at, 484, 485 ; 

 Bottom of the pares, 561 ; Capital of French oysterdom, 484 ; 

 certain specimens of the oyster never take the green colour at, 561 ; 

 Culmination of the artificial oyster culture system, at, 497 ; 

 difficulty in picking off spat, at the first stage, 561 ; divided into 

 claires, 560; Four thousand pares and claires at, in 1865, 484; 

 gathered on the coast by the fishers on foot, 561 ; greening 

 property of the pares of Le Martray, 561 ; grow more in the same 

 space of time, 561 ; hectares of ground in pares and claires, 488; 

 how long made, 560 ; how often the claires are cleaned, 561 ; less 

 water in the pares, the more the young oysters grow at, 560, 561 ; 

 M. Bouchon-Brandely's Report on the oyster culture of, in 1876, 

 560,561; M. Dupeux-Boyer's pares at, 560; "native "or " wan- 

 dering " oysters at, 561; native oysters less subject to mortality, 

 561 ; number of fattening ponds (claires] at, 488 ; number of 

 Proprietors of beds at, 488 ; number of pares for collecting spawn, 

 and breeding at, 488 ; number of pares and claires at, in 1863, 490 ; 

 Ostricultural industry not important at, 560 ; rearing and reproduc- 

 tion carried on at, 560 ; receive water every tide, 560 ; revenue of 

 the pares and claires at, 488 ; spat received on boulders at, 561 ; 

 Statistics of the oyster industry of, 488 ; suitable oyster grounds 

 of limited extent, 560 ; supposed number of oysters in pares at, 

 488 ; used for rearing and fattening oysters from Arcachon, 561 ; 

 or those of La Moulinatte, 561 ; when Arcachon oysters become 

 edible at Le Martray, 561 ; when the green colour shows itself, 

 561 ; where situate, 560. 



Read, Rev. J. B., a Paper by, cited 208, 209, 210, 211. 



Reading, 201, 206. 



