150 



THE CANADIAN OYSTER 



Biological Station — 



at Departure bay 125 



at Malpeque 4 



Birch, white, use as cultch 113 



Bird (Middle) island 95 



Biscay, bay of 9 



Bisexual character of British Co- 

 lumbian oyster 131 



Bivalve larv® 4 



identification oi" 34 



of plankton 33 



Bivalve mollusks, common species of 53 



Bivalvia 8 



meaning of term 70 



Black sea 9 



Blanchere, H. de la 3, 38, 61 



Blastoccele 19 



Blastomeres 18 



Blastopore 19 



origin of mouth from 28 



Blastula 19 



Bottom, nature of, required for oys- 

 ters 93 



Bouchon-Brandely, Germain 3 



Brach, W. J — 



first user of microscope in oyster re- 

 search 3 



on spawning 78 



on the larva 38 



Bras d'Or lakes 9,96 



Brazil 9 



Breeding — 



of American Atlantic oysters 10 



in the PacifiY 126 



of American Pacific oyster- 131 



Breeding pond' 109 



British Columbia — 



occurrence of oysters in 9 



transplanting Atlantic oysters to... 124 



British Columbian oyster 7 



description of 130 



<ggs and sperms of 131 



Brood oysters 112 



Brooks, W. K 24, 38, 40, 120 



discovery by 3 



experiments in artificial propa- 

 gation bv 37, 114 



mistake of 25 



on cleavag" 21 



on depletion of oyster beds in Rhode 



Island Ill 



on fecundity of oysters 101 



Brooks, W. K. — cont'd 



on number of spawn 79 



on oyster culture in East river, 



N.Y in 



on quantity of spat 85 



on the 'gap' in the oyster's life- 

 history 30 



on time of spawning 78 



reference to the foot by 48 



theory of origin of shell-gland 27 



Brush, as cultch 6 



Bryozoa 102 



resemblance to oyster spa t 53 



Buctouche, N.B 37 



temperature of sea at 92 



Buctouche harbour 94 



Bunbury island 95 



Burning oysters for lime 104 



Byssus-gland 47, 60, 64 



degeneration of 66 



description of 65 



Cable point, B.C., temperature and 



salinity at 92 



Cabot strait 95 



Csenogenesis 61 



Calcium carbonate 91 



California, occurrence of 0. lurida in 9 

 California, gulf of, occurrence of 



oysters in 130 



Canso, N.S 4, 124 



experiments with plankton net at . 40 



Canso, strait of 9 



Cape (for names preceded by "cape" 



see under name of feature) . 



Cape Breton island 95 



occurrence of oysters in 9 



oyster-producing bays in 94 



Caraquet, N.B 24, 37, 44, 79, 81 



salinity at 91, 92 



temperature of sea at 92 



Caraquet bay 94 



Caraquet oyster 8 



Carboniferous era, occurrence of oys- 

 ters in 9 



Cardium (cockle) 28, 35 



pygmceum 22 



Carpenter, P.P 130 



Cascumpeque, P.E.T 37, 95 



salinity at 91 



temperature of sea at 92 



