Index 



355 



Connecticut : 

 as a source of seed oysters, 

 190 

 Containers for the shipping of 



oysters, 141, 145 

 Coon oysters, description of, 

 238 

 possible improvement in form 



of, 239 

 in Florida, 252 

 as seed producers, 240 

 " Coppery " oysters, 252 

 Corn meal, supposed fattening 



of bivalves on, 63 

 Corporations in the northern 

 oyster field, 201 

 fear of, in Florida, 253 

 Coste, M., French naturalist, 69 

 successes and failures of, in 

 oyster culture, 76 

 Crabs as oyster enemies, 160 

 Creeping habits of bivalves, 27, 



344 

 of the scallop, 344 

 of the soft clam, 293 

 Culling, beneficial effects of, 242 

 laws governing, 140 

 in Louisiana, 257 

 Cultch (see Collectors) 

 Currents and dense segregations 

 of soft clams, 292, 308 

 and food distribution, 95 

 influence of, on the growth of 



the hard clam, 327 

 determining the rate of 

 growth, 287 



Damariscotta River shell heap, 



176 

 DeBon, M., and French oyster 



culture, 73 

 Delaware Bay, deep oyster beds 

 in, 198 

 natural oyster beds in, 178 

 Density (see Salinity) 

 Depth of water over oyster 



fields, 198 

 Diatoms, capture of, 53 

 distribution of, 95 

 as food organisms consumed 



by bivalves, 51, 287 

 growth of, 96 

 Digestive tract of bivalves, 20 



Dogfish, as a food animal, 350 

 Dredge, oyster, 131 



capacity of, 134 



form of, 133 



operation of, 134, 135 



use of, forbidden in Virginia, 



215 

 Drew, Professor G. A., on the 



development of the giant 



scallop, 340 

 Drumfish as an oyster enemy, 



158 

 presence of in the Gulf of 



Mexico, 263 

 Duxbury clam flats, 278 



East River, natural oyster beds 

 in, 178 

 oystermen originators of oys- 

 ter culture in America, 179 

 Eel-grass at Chandeleur Islands, 



259 

 destructive to the soft clam, 



285, 302 

 why scallops appear in, 342 

 Eggs, number of, in the oyster, 



24 

 Essex clam culture experiment, 



305 

 European oyster, 69 

 Excretory system of bivalves, 



23 



Female cell (see Ovum) 

 Field, Dr. G. W., on beach 



rights, 315 

 Flavor of oysters, 143 

 Flies and typhoid fever, 167 

 Florida, fish commission of, 253 



law enforcement in, 253 



shell heaps in, 252 

 Food organisms consumed by 



bivalves, 51 

 Foot of bivalves, 27 



embryonic, of oyster, 47 



of young soft clam, 291 



swimming by, in group of bi- 

 valves, 341 

 Freight charges on eastern oys- 

 ter seed, 272 

 French oyster culture, 71 



history of, 73 



modern methods of, 78 



