1354 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Scotch Kjokkenmoddings, 206. 



Scotland (ref.) 56, 148, 153, 166, 169, 171, 176, 178, 182, 257, 356, 645. 



Scuttlemouth, oysters, enormous sale of, in 1848, 248. 



Sea-anemones, 34, 46. 



Sea Beds, elevation and depression of, still going on in the Atlantic, 

 169; lying between Norway and the Canaries, 187; Sweden and 

 Greenland, instances of the former phenomenon, 169 ; upheaval of, 

 169. 



Sea Fisheries Act, The, 1868 (ref.) 416, 428, 451, 452, 453, 459 : Sea 

 Fisheries Act, 1875, origin of, 475. 



Sea Star, The, 225, 226 ; assertions of the ancient naturalists, concern- 

 ing, 225; of Albertus, and Aldrovandus, 225; considered a cure 

 for hysteria and epilepsy, considered valuable as manure, 227, 265 ; 

 description of anatomy and habits, 227 ; flesh of, poisonous, 228; 

 fresh water an instant poison to, 227 ; how they attack and devour 

 oysters, 228, 229 ; the scavengers of the sea, 228 ; Sir Thomas 

 Brown on, 226 ; variously coloured, 227. 



Sea (ref.) The Adriatic, 149, 153, 182, 676; Baltic, 214, 349, 643, 644, 

 659, 660; The Black, 144; The East, 659; The Ionian, 665 ; The 

 Mediterranean, 164, 181, 182, 189, 211, 304, 585, 604, 633; of 

 Morbihan, The Inland, 550, 552, 553 ; The North, 335, 349, 645, 



65 T 6 53> 6 54> 6 55> 6 57, 660. 



Sea Flats, The (ref.) 645 ; bottom of, 650, 65 1 ; described, 646, 647, 648 ; 

 great difference in the nature of the oysters, 650 ; measuring sticks, 

 or dredge nets used at, 648 ; number and sizes of the oyster beds 

 over, 650 ; number of oysters gathered by hand on, 648 ; oysters 

 not found all over portions of, and why, 650, 651, 652; popular 

 error regarding the oyster on the bottom of, 650 ; saltness of the 

 water of, 651; shallowness of at Fohr, 648; temperature of the, 

 652 ; the bottom of south west of Schleswig, 658 ; the establish- 

 ment of new beds on, how possible of formation, 658 ; the term 

 explained, 646 ; weight of dredge used by oystermen at, 649. 



Sea-urchins, 34, 46, 212, edible; Toxopneustes lividus, 68 1. 



Sea-water, composition of, 680-681 ; weight of carbonate of lime in, 96 ; 

 artificial experiments upon the use of, 1189; artificial receipe for 

 the preparation of, 268 ; price per gallon in London, 269 ; the 

 specific gravity of, 680 ; to what its saline taste is due, 680 ; its 

 its bitterish character, 680 ; its buoyancy, 680. 



