INDEX 



Sunfish, 33, 46, 49 

 Surf-scoter, 134 

 Sweeney, John, 207 

 Swordfish, 39 ^^ seq. 



Tailliez, Philippe, 14, 171, 176 



et seq. 

 Tarpon, 45-46 



Teeth, shark's amazing, 184-5 

 Teleostei, 183 

 Terns, 160 

 Thollon, 31 

 Thompson, J. Vaughan, 159, 



235 

 Thread-slime, 151 

 Thresher-shark, 187 

 Thucydides, 167 

 Tidal heights, greatest, 85 

 Tidal range, 86 

 Tidal rivers, 83 

 Tidal waves, 61, 80 ^/ seq. 

 Tide prediction, 82 

 Tide-rip, 82 



Tides, 60 et seq., 80 et seq., 1 1 1 

 Tides, harnessing, 88 et seq. 

 Todd, 265 

 Tornadoes, 70 

 Torpedinidae, 194 et seq. 

 Torj&^^o electrocuting a duck, 195 

 Trade winds, 62 et seq. 

 Trent bore, 84 

 Trichechidae, 224-5 

 Tridacna, 145, 156 

 Tridacna gigantea, 146 

 Trigger-fish, 51 

 Tsien-tang-kiang bore, 84 

 Tunas, 39, 46 

 Tunny fishes, 33, 46 et seq. 

 Turtles, 33, 50 



Ultraplankton, 238 

 Underwater : cameras, 

 270-1 



— electronic eye, 270 



— exploration, 164 et seq. 



— gun, 169 



— lamps, 268 et seq. 



— scooters, 180 



70- r 



— television, 269-70 



Uranus, 32 



U.S. Navy Survey (1951), 79 



Vaillant, M. le, 192 

 Valdes, Oviedo y, 99 

 Vampyroteuthis infernalis, 264 

 Velella, 124 

 Venus, 30 

 Venus's-basket, 148 

 Verrill, 45, 144 

 Vorticella, 124 



Wade, Dr. H. W., 123 



Walking-fish, 1 13-14 

 Walruses, 224 et seq. 

 Waves, 73 ^^ seq. 

 Waves, formulae, 74 

 Waves, smallest, 73 

 Westerlies, 67 

 West Indian cyclone, 83 

 Weymouth gale (1957), 69 

 Whales, 33, 47, 209 et seq. 

 Whale shark, 209 

 Whelks, 184 

 Whirlpools, 90 et seq. 

 Whirlpools, appeasing, 90 

 White, Dr. P. D., 234 

 White shark, 187, 206 

 White whales, 220 

 White-Wickham, H., 203 

 Wiedersheim and Parker, 197 

 Willm, 13 

 Williams, A. S., 31 

 Winckworth, R., 247 

 Wind erosion, 71-72 

 Wind, greatest ever known, 70 

 Winds, 58 et seq. 

 Winds, superstitions, 63 

 Wind velocities, 69 

 Wreck-fish, 102 

 Wrecks, sunken, 180-1 

 Wright brothers, 271 



Yangste Kiang, sediment, 75 



Zoarces viviparus, 1 1 7 

 Zoea, 236, 242 



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