482 



Index. 



Madrague, definition of, 89 

 Madrepore for paving and building, 



152 



Manatus, 209 



Manila pearl shells, 378, 385 

 Marine salt, 339 

 silk, 306 



Matanza, definition of, 86 

 Maties, definition of, 47 

 Medicinal uses of shells, 302, 303 

 Menhaden fish preserved in oil, 81 



oil, 221 



Moss-bunker, or menhaden, 8l 

 Mother-of-pearl, applications of, in 



China, 397 

 articles made of, 371 

 British imports, 382 

 Mother-of-pearl shells, commercial 



varieties of, 377 

 from Western Aus- 

 tralia, 395 

 value of our imports, 



21 



Mussel fishery of France, 18 

 shells, uses of, 298 



N. 



Nautilus shells, 296, 301 



Nets, size and kind of, 49 



Newfoundland cod fishery, 26 



Norfolk herring fishery, 48 



North American fisheries, 13, 14 



herring fisher)-, 58 

 isinglass, 251 



Norway cod fishery, 32 



herring fishery, 58 



Nuoc-mam, 265 



O. 



Octopods, 117 

 Oils, fish, 153 



from marine mammals, 198 

 Opercula, uses of, 302 

 Orchella weed, value of the imports, 21 

 Organ-pipe coral, 440 

 Ormer shell, 398 

 Ottoman sponge fishery, 183 

 Oolachan oil, 154, 219 

 Oyster fisheries, American, 139 

 British, 131 



Oyster fisheries of France, 18, 135, 



138 

 Oysters of Australia, 144 



I'. 



Painter's mussel, 269 

 Paires doubles, 147 

 Palolo, 121 



Panama pearl fishery, 420 

 pearl shells, 378 

 Papier-mache work, 381, 400 

 Paris, consumption of fish in, 19 



of oysters in, 135 

 Pearl buttons, 372 

 Pearl fisheries, 402 



of Western Australia, 



427 



of Persian Gulf, 418 

 of Ceylon, 409 

 of Panama, 420 

 Pearl inlaying, 381 



mussel, Chinese, 411 

 Pearls, commerce in, in Kngland, 403 

 classification of, 417 

 imported into France, 418 

 from Labuan, 424 

 from Pacific Islands, 424 

 quantities of, 405 

 used by the North American 



Indians, 420 



value of the imports, 21, 418 

 various colours of, 405 

 Pilchard fishery, 60 

 Pilchards cured in oil as sardines, 64 

 statistics of catch and ex- 

 ports, 63 



Pilgrim shells, 398 

 Pink pearls, 408 

 Piracuru fish, 250 

 Poggies, a kind of fish bait, ^ I 

 Polypi, 117 

 Pomfret, 130 

 Porgy, a name for the menhaden fish. 



221 



Porpoise oil, 208 

 Prussian amber, 465 



Q- 



Queen conch shell, 273, 293 



