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Australia, 20, 23, 28, 37, 41, 43, 46, 52, 55, 

 58, 62, 79, 97, 118, 120, 129, 142, 154, 

 171, 193, 198, 233, 240, 274, 278, 279, 

 280, 286, 293, 294, 295, 300, 302, 303, 

 308, 309, 310, 320, 328, 329, 334, 336, 

 339, 343, 345, 346, 348, 349, 352, 358, 

 361 



Australian Aborigines, 267 



Australian Grey Nurse Shark, 42 



Australian Museum, The, 156 



Austria, 150, 167 



Ayrshire, The ship, 148 



Azores, The, 249 



Bahamas, 95, 121, 123, 301 



Bakersfield (Cal.), 210, 214 



Balaenoptera musculus, 218 



Banjo Shark, 279 



Barbados, 147 



Barbs (of Sting Rays), 143 



"Barnacle Lil," 99 



Barndoor Skate, 159, 163, 259, 260, 364 



Barometers (of shark oil), 193 



Barracuda, 56, 93 



Basking Shark, 95, 134, 180, 200, 219, 220, 



224, 244, 304, 363 

 Bassford, John, 35 

 Bass Strait, 171 

 Batoidei, 217, 246 

 Batoids, 244, 245, 286 

 Bat Sting Ray, 272, 364 

 Baughman, J. L., 317 

 Bay of Fundy, 300, 322 

 Bayonne (N. J.), 5 

 Bay Shark, 329 

 Beach Haven (N. J.), 1, 15 

 Beebe, William, 25, 317 

 Beef Island (B.W.I.) , 85 

 Belford (N. J.), 7 

 Belgium, 167, 176 

 Bering Sea, The, 357 

 Bering Strait, 356 

 Bermuda, 58, 193 

 Bernstein, Brian, 102 

 Bible, The, 173 



Big-Eyed Thresher Shark, 310 

 Big Pine Key (Fla.), 67 

 Big Skate, 260, 364 

 Billingsgate Market (London), 166 

 Biloxi (Miss.), 163 



Bimini (Bahamas), 95, 121, 229, 282, 301 

 Bingham Oceanographic Lab., 258 



Births of selachians, 105, 284 



Bishop Fish, 285 



Bishop Museum, The (Honolulu), 141 



Bismarck Archipelago, 91 



Bjerland, Dr. Bjern, 356 



Black-Bellied Dogfish, 354 



Black Dogfish, 354 



"Black Shark" (a teleost), 354 



Black-Spotted Shark, 320 



Black-Tipped Sand Shark, 162, 163 



Blacktip Shark, 198, 326 



Black Whaler, 329, 330 



Blegvad, H., 345 



Blind Torpedo Ray, 250 



Block Island (R. I.), 114, 309 



Blood (in sea), 44, 47, 54 



Blue Nurse Shark, 297 



Blue Pointer Shark, 55, 82, 102, 302 



"Blue Porpoise" (Mako), 302 



Blue Shark, 100, 103, 107, 189, 303, 334, 



363 

 Great, 95, 104, 139, 169, 332 

 Blue Whale, 218 

 Blue Whaler, 332 

 Bolin, Ralph L., 36 

 Bondi (Australia), 84 

 Bone Shark, 304 

 "Bonito" (Mako), 302 

 Bonito Shark, 169 

 Bonnethead Shark, 363 

 Bonnet-Nosed Shark, 163, 348 

 Bonnet Shark, 348 

 Bootha, Peter, 103 

 Boothbav Harbor (Maine), 54 

 Borden Company (Shark Ind. Div.), 126, 



186 

 Boroso, 200 



Boston (Mass.), 10, 300 

 Botany Bay (Australia), 240, 269 

 Bottle-Nosed Dolphin, 83 

 Bowers, John, 311 

 Boynton Beach (Fla.), 93 

 Bradley Beach (N. J.),255 

 Brady, Brookner, 35 

 Brady, Patrick, 156 

 Brains of sharks, 227 

 Bramble Shark, 117, 244, 357 

 Brazil, 153, 174, 270, 271, 275, 276, 284, 



297, 322, 325, 327, 331 

 Breathing (respiration), 235 

 Breder, Jr., Dr. C. M., 282 

 Bregenz (Austria), 150 



