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INDEX. 



Page. 



Oysters, floats for freshening 546 



for European market 535 



former abundance in Connecticut 511 



Maine 509 



freshening of 546 



grades of 558 



green 515 



history of culture of 540 



decline of 512 



in Alabama, 512 



Florida 512 



Gulf of Maine 509 



Gulf of Saint Lawrence 508 



Louisiana 512 



Massachusetts waters 509 



Mississippi 512 



New Hampshire waters 509 



Rhode Island 510 



rivers of Maine 009 



Savannah Eiver 511 



Indian implement for opening 513 



James River 522 



lake 547 



laws protecting .' 514 



marketing in the shell 546 



wagons 548 



of opened 559 



methods of buying for transplanting 522 



selling in New York 556 



theskell 546 



transplanting 521,523 



mother 541 



names for infant 540 



native in Chesapeake Bay 518 



Florida 519 



Georgia 519 



North Carolina 519 



natural beds in Chesapeake Bay 511 



Delaware Bay 511 



New Haven Harbor 516 



New Jersey waters 511 



New York waters 511 



South Carolina 511 



natural history of 507 



northern bedding of Chesapeake 520 



opened, marketing of 559 



packed in ice 560 



packing raw 560 



pearls in 517 



pickled 563 



planting 520 



in Chesapeake Bay 525 



prized by Indians 509 



Professor Lock wood on decrease in 518 



raising of seed 534 



reef 547 



nefrigeratiou of 562 



reproduction of 507 



Saddle Rock 557 



schooners for transporting 521 



seed, at Long Island 534 



in Connecticut 534 



James River .. 525 



Narragansett Bay 537 



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Oysters, seed, methods of gathering 537 



sent to San Francisco 538 



set 540 



sharpers 548 



Shrewsbury 557 



spat 540 



spa wners 540 



species of 507 



steamed 560 



stools for 540 



total production of 564,565 



transpl:i nting, extent of business 52^ 



native seed 524-539 



Southern 520 



to new beds 520 



transportation of 559' 



tropical species of 507 



used by Indians 599 



value of, at New Orleans 548 



seed 537 



Pachyderma, crabs in 649 



crassatelloides 581 



Pacific-Arctic whaling grounds 19 



statistics of 84 



Pacific coast clams 611 



shrimp fishery 807 



Pacific Ocean, hu mpback whales in 22 



whale fishery in, beginning of 67, 140 



whaling fleet of 146,149 



in, methods of 68 



Pacific sperm-whale fishery 197 



walrus fishery 311-318 



Packing of oysters at Baltimore 560 



Painted clam 581 



Palaemonetesvulgaris 799 



Palicmon ohionis 800 



Palmer, Capt. Nath., sealing voyage by 406 



Palmer River, Connecticut, oyster planting in 53<i 



Palourde, name for scallops 566 



Pamlico Sound, shrimp in 802 



terrapin fishery in 499 



Panama Bay, sperm whales in 12 



Panama, whaler's transshipping port 26 



Pandalus Danes 809 



Panopens Herbstii 649 



Panulirus interruptus 798 



Parker River, Massachusetts, oysters in 509 



Passamaquoddy district, lobster industry in 744-747 



Indians 308 



Patagonia, dangers of sealing at 404 



fur-sealing at, in 1796 461 



right whales off 16 



sealing voyages to 442-460 



Spanish restrictions against sealing. . . 462 



Patagoniaus, description of 463 



Patchogue, N. Y., oyster planting at 533 



Pawtucket River, Rhode Island, oyster-beds in.. . 510 



Pawtucket, R. I., scallop fishery at 575 



Peacon, Brothers, shrimp canning by 806 



Pearls found in oysters 517 



Peconic Bay, scallop fishery in 577 



soft clams iu 591 



Pecouic, N. Y,, scallop industry at 579 



Pecten hastatus 567 



