1356 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Sitka Sound, 149. 



Skye, 147, 181. 



Smith, Dr. Abbots, on the Tagus oyster, 380. 



Smith, Mr. James, 153. 



Snails, 100 ; analysis of, 307 ; an article of diet, 306 ; Banded, the, 

 power of depositing colouring matter in, 87 ; greatly preferable to 

 the marine variety. 306, 307 ; marine varieties of, eaten by the 

 English, 306 ; land variety abhorred by English, 306. 



Snow destructive to oysters, 239. 



Societe d' Acclimation, The, 350. 



Society of Saint Anne, The, Establishment belongs to, 550. 



Society, The Ostracultural, 573, 575, 576. 



Solas ter papposa, 229. 



Sola, Lieutenant-Colonel, Francisco Garcia, The Fisheries of Spain, 



cited 693, 694, 695. 



Solen, 138. 



Soles, distorted in shape, and why, 131 ; contrasted with rays, 131. 



Solent, The, 378, 425. 



Solent Oysters, same as Poole Natives, 389. 



" Sounds," American, price of, in 1889, 354. 



Southend, 355, 397, 440. 



South deep in Poole, oyster beds in, 376 ; in the river Swale, 461. 



Sowerby, 156, 160, 164, 185. 



Soyer, M. A., The Gastronomic Regenerator, cited 285, 286. 



Spermatozoa (ref.) 102, in, 112, 113; and ova, how produced, in; 

 in the nivea, 167 ; the, of the Portuguese Oyster, cannot fecundate 

 the ova of the ostrea edulis, 591. 



Spain, 187, 375 ; Oyster culture in, extent of coast, 693 ; can be divided 

 into three districts, 693 ; Oyster, other mollusca and Lobster culti- 

 vation carried on, 693 ; private establishments granted by 

 Government to private individuals for the cultivation of mollusca, 

 693 ; natural beds formerly rich, nearly all exhausted, 693 ; an 

 oyster pare laid down at the expense of the nation to teach the 

 most modern processes of culture, 694 ; most favourable conditions 

 for fisheries, 694 ; foreigners and the Government, 694 ; complete 

 exhaustion of the fisheries not used in an absolute sense, 694 ; 

 the quantity of fish may be diminished in two ways, 695 ; the 

 exhaustion of oyster beds, 695 ; the price of oysters formerly and 

 at present, 695. 



