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Index 



" Breeders," use of, 125 

 Breeding season of bivalves, 25 



of oysters in France, 80 

 Bridgeport, experiments on 



clam culture at, 305 

 Brooks, Professor W. K., chair- 

 man of the Maryland oyster 

 commission, 212 

 experiments of, on artificial 



fertilization, no 

 on the oyster production of 



Chesapeake Bay, 212 

 oyster investigations of, 213 

 quotation from, 16 

 Bucephalus, an oyster parasite, 



163 

 Bumpus, Dr. H. C, suggestion 



by, 299 

 Buoys, oyster, in Long Island 



Sound, 197 

 Burrowing habits of bivalves, 



28, 284 

 Butter clam of Puget Sound, 



320 

 Buzzards Bay, oysters in, 178 



scallops in, 339 

 Byssus and the attachment of 



bivalves, 28 

 of the hard clam, 324 

 of the scallop, 342 

 of the soft clam, 293 



Cape Cod, absence of oysters 



north of, 177 



Cascades, water power in, 3 

 Chandeleur Islands, form of, 

 258 



occurrence of the little neck 

 on the west shore of, 9, 323 



Sound, oyster bottoms of, 259 

 Chesapeake Bay, decline of nat- 

 ural oyster beds in, 214 



fragmentary record of the 

 oyster industry in, 208 



insecurity of title in, 223 



most prolific of oyster waters, 

 206 



natural oyster beds of, 207 



oyster production of, 212 



shell heaps of, 176 



size of, 207 



soft clams in, 278 



Cilia on the body of the oyster, 



62 

 on the mantle of the hard 



clam, 56 

 movement and function of, 



on gill and palp, 37, 50, 54 

 Civil War, effect of, on the 

 Virginia oyster industry, 

 211 



and the seed industry, 189 

 Clam (see Soft clam and Hard 



clam) 



as a carrier of disease, 166 

 fork, 282, 283 

 term, applied to many forms, 



280 



Clay, use of, in reclaiming bot- 

 toms, 84 



useful on clam flats, 286 

 Cleanliness in packing oysters, 



203 



Cloaca, 30, 37 

 Close season, absence of, in 



Louisiana, 266 

 futility of, 182 

 in Maine, 278 

 Clutches, positive and friction, 



140 



Coal, waste of, 3 

 Collectors, advantages of, 119 

 in America, 118 

 brush, 121 

 crushed rock, 121 

 in France, 78, 79, 80 

 season for planting, 122 

 slime collection on, 122 

 small shells for, in Louisiana, 



261 

 of tin, gypsum, cement, etc., 



122 

 Colonial charters and beach 



rights, 181 



Colonists, records of, 177 

 Common ownership of beaches, 



314 



Connecticut the leader in oyster 



culture, 191 



natural oyster beds of, 179 

 old and new plans of state 



control of oyster industry 



in, 191 



oyster commission of, 194 

 oyster laws of, 193, 195, 196 



