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THE CANADIAN OYSrER 



Oviduct 10 



Oyster L arbour, B.C. — 



abund nee of Pacific oysters in. . . 130 



transplanted oysters at 127 



Pacific ocean — 



cultivation of Atlantic oysters in.. . 7 



transplanting oysters to 124 



Pacific oyster — 



description of 130 



eggs and sperms of 131 



inferior to Atlantic species 131 



Palps — 



of spat 71 



possible origin from volum dis- 

 cussed 61 



Paludina 28 



Park>, oystei- 109 



PatelLa 28 



Peck 70 



Pecten (scallop) .6,, ■•') 53, 60 



irradians 97 



Pedal ganglia 49, G4, 74 



Pelecypoda 45 



meaning of term 70 



Pelsenecr, P 70 



Perc6 island 96 



Phylogenetic development 60 



Phylogeny of lamellibranchiate gii ■ . . . . 70 



Physical environment of oyster 1, 90 



Pigment spots (eye-specks) 49, 74 



Pipette, use of, in obtaining bivalve 



larvse 33 



Pisidium 28 



Places where oysters abound 1 



Plankton 9 



definition of 31 



methods, advantages of... .31, 119, 120 



nets, bivalve larvse in 4 



preservation of samples of 37 



study of, at Malpeque 6 



taken in Hammond and Nanoose 



bays 127 



Plankton net — 



description of 32 



mode of employment of 33 



use in obtaining oyster larvse 32 



use of 80, 82, 117 



use of, to obtain bivalve larvse .... 40 



Planorbis 28 



'Planting, ' as practised in New Jersey . Ill 



Pleistocene fossils 97 



Pocomoke sound 78 



Point du Ch6ne, N.B 37 



Position, natural, for oysters 93 



Posterior adductor muscle 67, 71 



Prince, E.E 130 



on breeding in B.C. oysters 133 



on larvse of B.C. oyster 134 



on obtaining larvse with net 41 



Prince Edward Island — 



distribution of oysters in 9 



fluctuations of oyster catch in 99 



legislation re oyster fishery 105 



oyster and quahaug areas in 6 



oyster-producing bays in 94 



oyster production in 98 



red sandstone of 44 



Problems to be solved 1 



Prodissoconch (larval shell) 6, 55 



measurements of 58, 59 



Production, statistics of oysttr 99 



Proliferation 17, 23 



Pronucleus 17 



Propagation, artificial 24, 107 



as practised by Brooks, Rice and 



Ryder 114 



experiments of Nelson with 115 



inadequacy of 119 



Propagation, natural 107 



Protection at entrance of oyster bays.. 94 



Protoplasm 13, 29 



Prototroch 24, 29, 44 



Protozoa 102 



Q 



Quahaug 5, 7 



determination of larva of 36 



fishery 100, 103, 105 



larvse of 44 



R 



Radial symmtery 68, 74 



Raljsia verrucosa 56 



resemblance to oyster spat 53 



Ram (Grover) island 82, 85, 95 



Ram Island point ^^, 36 



favourable place for catching spat . 54 



Receptive spot 15 



Rectima 49 



formation of 26 



Reproductive organs 10, 14, 75 



Research, difficulties of 2 



