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EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSCA. 



Donax trnnculus sold in the market 



at Xaples, 19. 

 Door-nails at Toledo, 116. 

 Dredgers of Whitstable, 129. 

 Dreissena polyrnorpha, 74. 

 Dress of Anne of Cleves, 94. 

 Ducks fed on snails, 234. 

 Duke of Bedford, arms of the, 107. 

 Dutch oysters, 159. 



Ear-shells, Haliotis tuberculata, 179. 



Ear-shells, used in Guernsey to 

 frighten birds from the corn, 

 . 181. 



Ear of Venus, 180. 



Echinidae eaten by the ancients, 

 272. 



Echini, to cook, 273. 



Echini best in autumn, 273. 



Echini as a cure in medicine, 271. 



Echini used as bait in Daluiatia, 

 271. 



Echini eaten at Corfu, 273. 



Echini eaten raw, like oysters, 273. 



Echini move by means of their 

 spines. 269. 



Echini foretell storms, 268. 



Echinometra in holes in calcareous 

 sand-rock, and other volcanic con- 

 glomerate, 270. 



Echinometra in holes in gneiss rocks, 

 270. 



Echinometra Michelini eaten in 

 Brazil, 272. 



Echinus considered as vegetable 

 food, 273. 



Echinus esculentus, 271. 



Echinus esculentus the real oursin 

 comestible, 271. 



Echinus granulosus, 273. 



Echinus in heraldry, 269. 



Echinus livid us, or purple egg- 

 urchin, eaten on the west coast of 

 Ireland, 269. 



Echinus lividus eaten at Naples, 273. 



Echinus melo, 273. 



Echinus sphaera, 2<>8. 



Echinus sphaora, shells of, 269. 



Eeast-ghol-virragh, 14. 



Eeast-yn-vraain-olley, 246. 



Eider duck and Buccinum, 208. 



Eledone cirrhosus, 218. 



Eledone moschatus eaten in Italy, 

 267. 



Elenchi, long-shaped pearls, 90. 

 Enemies of the oyster, 127. 

 Enthronization feast of William 



Warham, 207. 

 Escallop in heraldry, borne not only 



as a pilgrim's badge, 109. 

 Escallop shell, crest of Bower and 



Bullingham, 108. 

 Escargotieres, or snail gardens, 225. 

 Escargots, 225. 

 Escourgol, 226. 

 Escupiiias bestias, 23. 

 Escupiiias de gallet, 42. 

 Escupiiias grabadas, 31. 

 Escupifia lliza, 27. 

 Escupiiia Maltesa, 83. 

 Experiments by M. Cuzent on green 



oysters, 140. 

 Export of snails from Saintonge and 



Aunis, 227. 

 Extracting copper from oysters, 140. 

 Extravagance in jewellery from the 



12th to 16th centuries, 93. 

 Eyilkier, 273. 



Falmouth oysters sent to Marennes, 



139. 

 Famine of 1816 and 1817, 227. 

 Fasolara, 33. 

 Fasting food, 246. 

 Fava, 23. 



Figian and pearl-oyster shells, 185. 

 Fishing for mussels in Bay of Con- 



cepcion, 66. 

 Fishing for donax and mactridae at 



Viare^gio, 19. 

 Flie, 178. 

 Flitters, 174. 

 Fog-horn made of a species of Fusns, 



207. 

 Folado, 4. 

 Folpo da risi, 267. 

 Foreign pearls, 72. 

 Fortunes predicted by snails, 235. 

 Fountain of shells, 117. 

 French mussel-breaders, 61. 

 French names for limpets, 178. 

 French names for scallops, 101. 

 Fried oysters another way, 161. 

 Frills, or Queens, 122. 



