Volume 2

Oysters, and all about them : being a complete history of the titular subject, exhaustive on all points of necessary and curious information from the earliest writers to those of the present time, with numerous additions, facts, and notes / by John R. Philpots.

  • Philpots, John Richards.
Date:
1890-1891
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Credit: Oysters, and all about them : being a complete history of the titular subject, exhaustive on all points of necessary and curious information from the earliest writers to those of the present time, with numerous additions, facts, and notes / by John R. Philpots. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Wash,” complement of oysters in a, 362; in Colchester, two pecks, in London, one peck, 362. Watch, a miniature, 83. Water, fresh and rain, J233, 1234; warmth of, degrees capable of being borne by oysters, 667 ; of the French Mediterranean coast, 667 ; of Lake Fusaro, propagation of malaria by the, 664, 665; of the submarine springs at Tarente, 666 ; very considerably colder in the pares of Saint Vaast-la-Hougue, than in the Tagus, 674; analysis of MediteiTanean, 678, 679, 1264; density of the, at Giens, 678; Mediterranean, 684 ; of Lake Berre, 684; analysis of, taken from the Atlantic Ocean, 1263; of the Charente, weight of, by the areometer, 612; Verdon, 627; Mediterranean, 627; brackish, requisite for oyster culture, weight of by the areometer, 629; fresh facility for introduction of, into reservoirs, requisite, 629; coast, percentage of salt requisite in, for oyster culture 651 ; Sea, weight and density of, 656 ; Sea, temperature at which it forms ice, 656. “ Watten,” 646. “ Wattenmeer,” 646. Weed, 1227, 1228. WeinkaufF, 149, 166, 172. Welsh* Coast, 145 ; examples of anomia, 147. Welfare, Mr., 1114. Wergeland, Lieutenant-General, 671. Werner, 24. West Bay, oysters from, fattened in Poole beds, 388. Wexford, 255, 256. Whelks and Whelk-tingles, 200, 229, 232, 236, 1225, 1226, 1227 ; how they devour oysters, 233 ; reward offered by oyster proprietors for, 232; oysters killed by, 232; used as bait, 266; the piercing (murex) on the oyster beds in Brittany, 536, 537. Whitaker’s Journal, cited, no, 121, 122. Whitby, 201. Whitstable (ref.) 39, 117, 121, 255, 259, 2^0, 272, 318, 357, 360, 368, 387, 389. 453, 459, 976, 979; flats (ref.) 1016, 1232, 1233; ^30,000 paid for brood by the people of, 250; Mr. S. Sanders’ Museum at, of practical benefit to the dredgers, 368, 369, 384; capital employed in, annually, in oyster culture, 352 ; antiquity of, as a fishing town of note, 358 ; ancients called “ Northwood,” 358 ;