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INDEX
INDEX
Abalone pearls, 55, 78, 148, 280, 291, 351, 414
Abbas the Great, 455
Abdul-Aziz, 421
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 164, 166
Aboriginal use of pearls, 485–513
Abortive ova theory, 42
Abraham and Sarah, 7
Accidents to divers, 117, 138, 144, 197, 203, 208, 247, 249
Acid stains, 376
Acosta, José de, 232
Aden, Arabia, 37, 142
Aden, Gulf of, 80, 140
Adirondack, New York, 266
Adour River, France, 171
Adrian, Pope, 313
Africa, 65, 140, 153–156
Age of mollusks, 74, 108, 171
Ago Bay, Japan, 292
Aitken, E. H., 133
Alabama, 492, 493
Alasmodon arcuata, 73 margaritifera, 281
Albertus Magnus, 311
Alexander the Great, 319
Alexander VI, 24
Alexander Severus, 10
Alexandra, Queen, 165, 418 (plate), 438
Alexandria, 320
Alexandria shell, 69
Alfonso X, 311
Alfred the Great, 414
Algonquin Indians, 486
America, 225–282, 294
America, Prehistoric, 23, 485–512
American Museum of Natural History, 266, 467
Amsterdam, Diamond Merchants of, 325
Anania of Shiraz, 329
Ancients, Pearls among the, 3–12
Anglesey, Marquis of, 479
Angoulème, Duchess of, 170
Anhalt Dessau, Duchess of, 476
Anjou, Duke of, 425
Annan River, Scotland, 164
Anne de Bretagne, 436
Anne de France, Duchess, 435
Anodonta cygnea, 42, 168
Antwerp, Chamber of Commerce of, 327
Apparatus of capture, 166, 181, 268–270. See Dredges, Scaphanders.
Apple River, Wisconsin, 262
Aqualia jewels, 479
Aqua perlata, 311
Archangel, Russia, 181, 184
Areca-nut, 310
Arethusa necklace, 405
Aristotle, 95
Arizona, 510
Arkansas, 259, 263, 264, 270, 276, 361
Arkansas River, 263, 264
Arlington, Tenn., 263
Arnobio, Cleandro, 344
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 41, 85
Arthurian legends, 304
Artificial pearls, 41, 285–293
Aru Islands, 206, 220
Ashburnham missal, 17
Assyria, Pearls in, 6, 404
Atax ypsilophorus, 43
Atharvaveda, 4, 301
Athens National Museum, 405
Atwater, Caleb, 500
Auction of oysters, 120
Auction of pearls, 470–472, 477–481
Augsburg, Germany, 320
Australia, 30, 58, 65, 68, 199–212, 291, 294, 466
Austria, Fisheries of, 178–179
Austrian Schatzkammer, 472–474
Awabi. See Abalone.
Aztecs, Pearls among the, 23
Bacon, Francis, 313
Baden, Germany, 177
Baegert, Jacob, 244
Bagdad, 88, 98, 335, 411
Bagge, J. P., 287
Bahama Islands, 278
Bahrein Islands, 85, 88–90
Balapur, India, 133
Baldknob, Arkansas, 276
Banda, 221
Banks, Edgar J., 5
Bann River, Ireland, 165
Bantam Lake, Conn., 266
Bapst pearls, 465
Barbot, Charles, 337, 390
Baroda, Gaikwar of, 460
Baroque pearls, 30, 31, 59, 265, 272, 353, 359, 464, 475, 476
Baroque pearls, Values of, 337, 340, 343, 355
Barthema, Lodovico, 86
Base value for pearls, 330–333
Basilica of St. Mark, 17, 59
Bassein Coast, India, 139
Bath, Marquis of, 355
Batthyani, Count Louis, 467
—— Countess Louis, 434
Bavaria, 171–173, 294
Bazaruto Islands, 153, 156
Beads, 403, 497, 498, 508
Beckmann, Johann, 287
Bede, 160
Bell, Robert N., 492
Benjamin of Tudela, 37, 86
Benzoni, Girolamo, 231
Berri, Duc de, 426
Beuth-Schinkel Museum, Charlottenburg, 421
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 407, 425, 428, 436
Biedma, Louis Hernandez de, 253, 257
Bird’s-eye pearls, 56, 353
Birdwood, Sir George, 319
Birmingham, Jewelers’ and Goldsmiths’ Association of, 327
Blackmore, H. P., 490
Blackmore Museum, 490, 500
Black pearls, 29, 60, 241, 349, 355, 376, 467, 476
Black River, Arkansas, 264, 273
Black Rock, Arkansas, 264, 276
Bleaching pearls, 377, 396
Blister pearls, 58, 353
Blue-point shell, 72
Boats, 91, 112, 136, 141, 166, 205, 218, 234
Bober River, Germany, 175
Bohemia, Austria, 178
Bohemian pearls, 433, 434
Bolchow, H. W. F., 478
Bolivia, 511
Bologna treatise of, 1791, 331, 338, 342, 343
Bombay, 88, 89, 98, 156, 347, 354, 357
Bombay Presidency, 132
Bombay shell, 69, 143
Boncza, Mlle. Wanda de, 479
Boot, Anselmus de, 40, 311, 331, 338, 343, 382, 455
Bordeaux, Austin de, 459
Borneo, 221, 297
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 11, 12, 307
Bouchon-Brandely, G., 193, 195, 290
Bourbon, Duchess of, 348
Bouton, Louis, 291
Bouton pearls, 56, 57, 352. See Button pearls
Bracelets, 474
Brazil, 282
Breeding pearls, 296–298
Bremond, Gabriele, 411
Brhatsamhita of Varâhamihira, 334
Bridal presents, Pearls as, 170
Brinton, D. G., 494
Bristow, Samuel G., 494
British Honduras, 511
British Isles, 11, 159–168
British Museum, 11, 20, 67, 405, 414, 510
Brooch, 471
Broome, Australia, 205
Brown, Barnum, 511
Browning, Robert, 303
Bruce, Robert, 418
Brunswick, Duke of, 349, 399
Brydges, Sir Harford Jones, 459
Bubics, Bishop, 481
Buckhorn shell, 73
Buckingham, Duke of, 24
Buckland, F. T., 165
Budapest National Museum, 435
Buddha images, 288–289
Buddhabhaṭṭa, 310, 335, 378
Budé, Guillaume, 348
Bulawayo, South Africa, 513
Bullhead shell, 73
Bunyan, John, 79
Burgundy family, 21, 431
Burkill, F. H., 136
Burma, 135
Bushell, Stephen W., 413
Bushnell, David I., 509
Butterfly shell, 73
Button manufacture, 72, 264, 269, 271
Button pearls, 352, 360, 470
Buttons, Link, 443
Buying pearls, 369
Byron, Lord, 403
Byssus, 66, 76
Byzantine coins, 15
Byzantium, 320
Cæsar, Julius, 10, 11, 159, 329, 449
Cæsarea, Syria, 406
Calcutta, 357
California, 280, 281
California, Gulf of, 69, 241–251, 294
Caligula, 9
Caliph Al-Mamun, 411
Cambridge, Mass., 490
Camden, William, 37, 160
Canada, 281
Candarin, weight, 322
Caniapuscaw, Canada, 281
Carat, 321–329, 331, 333
Carborel, José, 242
Care of pearls, 394–395
Caribbean Sea, 225
Carl, Miss, 513
Carlotta, Empress of Mexico, 397, 476
Caroline Augusta, Empress, 474
Caroline, Queen, 29
Carpets embroidered with pearls, 411
Carthage, Tenn., 263, 276
Carupano, Venezuela, 234
Cassis madagascarensis, 351, 354
Castellani, Alexandro, 185
Castellani, Augusto, 468
Catharine de’ Medici, 24, 435, 453
Catharine of Russia, 184
Cavvadias, M. P., 405
Ceram, 221
Ceylon, 4, 29, 31, 45, 60, 81, 87, 99–128, 293, 343–347, 383
Ceylon Company of Pearl Fishers, 110, 125, 127
Chank, 78
Chardin, Jean, 94
Charente River, France, 171
Charlemagne, 16, 472, 475
Charles I of England, 431, 456
Charles II of Spain, 452
Charles IV, Crown of, 416
Charles V, Buckle of, 24
Charles VI of France, 313
Charles the Bold, 21
Charles the Bold’s jewel, 450
Charlotte, Queen, 29
Chauveton, Urbain, 38, 232
Che-kiang, China, 288
Chesapeake Bay, 267
Chicago, Ill., 275, 499, 500
Chicot, 58, 353
Chillicothe, Ohio, 491, 500, 506
China, 4, 5, 19, 145–146, 285, 288, 302, 413
Chinese pearl ornaments, 413
Christ, 7, 304
Christie’s Auction House, 477–481
Chung-kwan-o, China, 290
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 468
Clam pearl. See Venus, 351, 486
Cleaning pearls, 375, 377, 378, 396
“Cleanness,” the poem, 21
Cleopatra, 10, 55, 314, 315, 407, 449
Clinch River, Tenn., 263
Clinton, Tenn., 263, 276
Clodius, 315
Coche Island, Venezuela, 231, 233
Cockburn, Lady Augusta Anne, 479
Cocoanut pearls, 78, 351
Cofaciqui, 253, 254, 257, 267
Coins, ancient, 404, 450
Collar, Pearl, 444
Colombia, 233, 239, 282
Colombo, 357
Color of pearls, 60, 61, 97, 124, 166, 184, 221, 241, 261, 267, 273, 321, 351, 354, 359, 362, 467
Colorado River, 261
Columbus, Christopher, 23, 225, 226, 228, 321
Columbus, Diego, 229
Columbus, Ohio, 500
Commerce in pearls, 319–321
Commission des Instruments et Travaux, 326
Comparette, F. Louis, 408
Compiègne, France, 431
Composition of pearls, 52, 314
Comyn, Tomas de, 213
Conch pearls, 55, 77, 278, 279, 351, 361, 464
Conchiolin, 44, 51, 61
Cone-shaped pearls, 352
Congaree River, 492
Connecticut, 266
Connemara, Ireland, 165
Constantinople, 15, 320
Conway River, Wales, 37, 160, 161, 168
Copenhagen, 476
Coque de perle, 59, 351
Coral, 412
Cordiner, James, 104, 116, 382
Cordoba, Maria Fernandez de, 433
Coronation orb, English, 418
Cortés, Hernando, 241
Corvinus, Cross of, 423
Cossack, Australia, 205, 466
Costa Rica, 239, 282
Coxe, Daniel, 258, 263
Cracks in pearls, 271, 321, 381
Crawfurd, John, 213
Cresson, H. T., 501
Crosses of pearls, 444
Crowfoot drag, 269
Crowns, 15, 24, 414–420, 455, 472–475
Crown jewels of France, 56, 461, 468–472
Crusades, 19, 320
Crystalline pearls, 54, 55, 351
Cubagua Island, Venezuela, 228, 229, 231, 233
Culin, Stewart, 414
Cultching, 294
Culture pearls, 41, 75, 148, 288–293
Cumana, Venezuela, 228, 233, 234
Cumberland River, 263, 494
Cupid and Psyche, 307
Curtis, William E., 282
Cuzco, Cathedral of, 432
Cylindrical pearls, 56, 353
Czarina of Russia, _Frontispiece_
Czarina of Russia, Daughters of the, 442
Dahlak Islands, 142
Danube River, 18, 171, 177, 179
Dark Ages, 17, 21, 320, 421
Davenport, Charles B., 292
Davis, Edwin H., 485, 489, 498
Death of pearls, 397, 399
Debenham & Storr, 481
Dee River, Scotland, 164
Denmark, 179, 512
Dennis, James T., 6
Dennys, N. B., 297
Denton, Sherman F., 266
Depletion of pearl beds, 31, 106, 132, 148, 164, 169, 175, 180, 206, 233, 261, 277, 294
Dew-drop origin of pearls, 36–39, 60
Diamonds, 21, 28, 29, 30, 79, 259, 321, 330, 334, 369, 371, 392, 403, 412, 439, 442
Diane de Poitiers, 436
Diaz, Carmen Romero Rubio de, 441
Diederichsen, 476
Diemerbroeck, 94
Dieseldorf, E. P., 511
Dieulafait, Louis, 337
Dinglinger, J. M., 475
Dipsas plicatus, 75, 146, 288
Distomum duplicatum, 42 margaritarum, 43 somateriæ, 43
Divers, Characteristics of, 91, 93, 113, 131, 134, 137, 143, 149, 194, 207, 217, 238, 246
Diving-bell, 239, 245, 247
Diving, Limit of, 93, 94–96, 195, 208, 219, 249
Diving, Method of, 92, 114, 128, 132, 138, 142, 146, 194, 201–203, 207, 219, 230, 236, 246, 249
Diving-stones, 92
Dixon washing machine, 123, 125
Dog-tooth pearls, 352, 360
Donnan, James, 93
Don River, Scotland, 163, 164
Doon River, Scotland, 163, 164
Double pearls, 57, 353
Dragon and pearl, 302
Dragsen, Alfred, 476
Dredging for pearl-oysters, 115, 146, 218, 231, 234
Dreher, Julius D., 196
Dresden, Germany, 475
Drilling pearls, 378–385, 477, 492, 496
Drinking dissolved pearls, 314
Drop-shaped pearls, 352
Druggists’ pearls, 75
Dublin Museum, 424, 425
Dubois, Raphael, 43, 44, 55, 71
Dubosq, Augustus, 390
Dubosq, Henry, 390
Dubuque, Iowa, 510
Dudley, Lady, 479
Durand, L. E., 88
Dust-pearls, 56, 352, 445
Durability of pearls, 395–398
Dutch Indies, 202, 220
Dyeing pearls, 377
Earn River, Scotland, 164
Ear-piercing, 407
Earrings, 403, 404, 407–410, 444
East Africa, Fisheries of, 153–156
East African Pearl Company, 154
East Indian pearl jewelry, 412
Ebert, Frank M., 267
Ecclesiastical ornaments, 16, 17, 160, 421–424, 444
Echternacher Codex, 421
Ecuador, 282
Edgcumbe, Sir Robert, 153, 155
Edibility of pearl mollusks, 66, 171, 210, 250, 280, 494
Edward VI of England, 455
Edward VII of England, 438
Edward, the Black Prince, 417
Effigy mound, 502, 504, 505
Egbert, Archbishop of Treves, 421
Egg-shaped pearls, 56, 240, 352, 470
Egypt, Pearls in ancient, 6, 403 403–404
Eldorado explorers, 252
Elgin, Lord, 126
Eligius or St. Eloi, 16
Elizabeth of England, 24, 453, 454
Elizabeth of Russia, 182, 183
El Katif, 457
Elster River, Saxony, 173
Emanuel, Harry, 337, 340
Embedded pearls, 57, 353, 376
Emeralds, 330, 372, 412, 439
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 145
Empress Dowager of China, 431 (plate)
Enriching a drink with pearls, 314
Entrecolles, F. X. de, 285, 286
Eo, Wilhelmus, 348
Espiritŭ Santo Island, Mexico, 248, 293
Esterházy, Count Maurice, 434
Esterházy, Prince Nicholas, 434, 481
Esthonia, Russia, 182, 183
Etowah River, Georgia, 267
Eugénie, Empress, 30, 164, 260, 307, 355, 395, 471
Europe, Fisheries of, 168–185
European pearl-bearing mollusks, 75, 160, 164, 170, 184
Fabricius, Dionysius, 182
Fake pearls, 361
Falco, Alphonse, 468
Farsan Islands, Red Sea, 142
Fashion for pearls, 21, 30, 31, 329, 354, 439, 440
Ferbecq, 475
Ferguson, A. M., 117
Ferranz, Ivens, 153
Fertility of pearl mollusks, 67, 74
Feuchtwanger, Lewis, 336
Fever, Pearl hunting, 276
Fewkes, J. Walter, 510
Field Museum of Natural History, 499, 501, 503
Filippi, Filippo de, 42
Findhorn River, Scotland, 164
Finland, Russia, 182, 183, 290
Finot, Louis, 334
Fishermen, Characteristics of, 91, 268, 275. See Divers.
Fishermen, Total number of, 80
Fishing boats, 112, 113, 136, 141
Flavor of pearls, 313, 315
Flint River, Georgia, 268
Florence, Italy, 24, 407
Florida, 257, 262, 268, 278, 493
Foix, Françoise de, 436
Fontaneda, Hernando, 256, 257
Forms of pearls, 55–60, 351–354
France, 17, 169–171
Francis I of France, 468
Frederick, Cæsar, 101
Frederick III of Germany, 438
French crown jewels, 56, 461, 468–472
Fresh-water pearls, 16, 18, 30, 72–75, 146, 159–185, 252–282, 351, 359
Froehner, 12
Fugger, J. J., 450
Fukura, Japan, 293
Funeral rites, use of pearls, 133
Gabrielle d’Estrées, 436
Gambier Islands, 190, 192
Gann, Thomas, 511
Garde-Meuble, Paris, 461
Garner, Robert, 43
Garrard & Co., 464
Gemelli-Careri, 238
Gemmen Münzen Cabinet, 12
General Pearl and Coral-Fishing Association of London, 245
Genoa, Italy, 24, 320
Gentleman of Elvas, 253
Georgia, 267, 492, 495
German East Africa, 154
German Federation of Jewelers, 326
German ornaments, Antique, 421–422
Germany, 171–178, 294
Giant clam, 53, 76, 144, 296
Giard, Alfred, 43
Gieger, Malachias, 312
Gillman, H. W., 346
Gimma, Giacinto, 213
Gironde River, 171
Glyptothek, Munich, 407
Godron, D. A., 169
Goethe, 305
Gogibus pearl, 350, 461
Gollancz, 20
Gomara, Francisco Lopez de, 226, 235, 451, 455
Gonzalez, President, 247
Goode, John Mason, 94
Gordon-Lennox, Lady Henry, 481
Gould, Mrs. George J., 480 (plate)
Grain, Pearl, 322–327, 330–334
Gran, Cathedral of, 422
Grass River, N. Y., 266
Graves, Aboriginal, 253, 485–512
Great pearls of history, 481, 482
Greece, 8, 11, 307, 405, 409
Greene, Robert, 253
Greenland, 179
Gresham, Sir Thomas, 314, 454
Grimshaw, Beatrice, 197
Grüne Gewölbe, 59, 175, 475
Guadeloupe, Church of, 452
Guatemala, 511
Guidius, Joannes, 28
Guillaume, M., 325
Hafiz, 47
Hale, Edward E., 241
Half-pearl making, 392, 394
Half-pearls, 354, 364, 444
Half-pearls, values, 340–341
Haliotidæ, 78
Haliotis gigantea, 148
Hammer pearls, 353
Hampton Court, 22
Hanover, Germany, 176
Hapsburg family, 23
Hardy, R. W. H., 245
Hariot, Thomas, 257, 488
Harley, Geo., 54, 396
Harness, John M., 506
Harness mound, 491, 496, 500, 506–509
Harpeth River, Tenn., 494
Harris, Israel H., 261
Haupt, Paul, 6
Hawkins, Sir Richard, 38
Haystack pearls, 56, 353, 360
Healing qualities of pearls, 314
Hebrew literature, 6, 7
Hedenberg, Frederick, 290
Heikow, Lake of, Manchuria, 147
Heirlooms, 434, 477, 479
Hennepin, Father Louis, 495
Henry V, 417, 454
Henry VIII, 22, 431, 451
Heraldic significance, 437
Herculaneum, pearls from, 409
Herdman, W. A., 45, 46, 155, 287, 290
Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 11, 410, 415
Herrick, Robert, 285
Herrmann, Richard, 509
Hesse, 177
Hessling, Theodore von, 52, 172, 176, 181
Hiller, Henry W., 462
Hindus, 4, 301, 307, 309, 347, 350, 382
Hinge pearls, 59, 352
Hispano-American Museum, 432
Holbein, Hans, 22
Holberg, 179
Holland, Philemon, 314
Holy Roman Empire, 472, 475
Home, Sir Everard, 42
Homer, 8
Hope pearls, 59, 463–464
Hope, Henry Philip, 463
Hopewell mounds, 490, 500–505
Hopewell, M. C., 501
Hornell, James, 45, 117, 127
Horsehair threads, 391
Hôtel de Tiraz, Palermo, 475
Hôtel Drouot, 477–479
Howe, Sir Everhard, 42
Howell, David, 259, 260
Howie, W. Forbes, 425
Humbert, Mme., 478
Humboldt, Alexander von, 23, 233
Hungary, Pearls in, 179, 422, 423, 434, 481
Hunt & Roskell, 465
Hunyadi, Count Joseph, 434
Hussock, Eugene, 282
Iberville, Pierre, 258
Ibn Batuta, 86, 94
Ibo Archipelago, 153, 155
Iciaha, 255, 259
Idaho, 492
Idar, Germany, 392
Ille River, 170
Illinois, 270, 274, 276, 509
Illinois River, 264
Ilz River, Bavaria, 172
Imam of Muscat, 457, 464
Imitation pearls, 29, 61, 279, 286, 361, 376, 382, 403, 445, 490, 497
India, 3, 18, 128–133, 293, 309, 343–347, 354, 385
Indiana, 276
Indications of pearls, 71, 74, 165
Ingram, David, 256
Inspection of reefs, 108, 130, 155, 174
International Committee of Weights and Measures, 326
Inventories of jewels, 425–431, 469, 470, 472
Investments in pearls, 456
Iowa, 276, 291
Ireland, 17, 162, 165
Irregular pearls, Value of, 342
Isabella, Clara Eugenia, 436
Isabella, Queen, 453
Isar River, Bavaria, 172
Isidorus of Charace, 85
Isla River, 163, 164
Jackson, A. V. Williams, 3, 5
Jackson, Lowis d’A., 323, 347
Jade, 412
Jahn, J. G., 173
Jameson, H. L., 43, 44, 67
Japan, 70, 147, 292, 296, 302, 309
Japanese divers, 137, 207, 208
Jeffries, David, 331, 338
Jesuits, 242, 244, 251, 258
Jiddah, Arabia, 140, 142
Jolo, Philippine Islands, 218
Jones, Charles C., 485, 493, 495
Jones, F. Alfred, 431
Jones, Joseph, 493, 497
Jones, William S., 493
Jordanus, Friar, 100
Joseph, Archduke, 434
Josephine, Empress, 170
Jouchanan ibn Massouiah, 95
Juan, Griego, Venezuela, 234
Julia, daughter of Titus, 407
Juppel River, Prussia, 176
Justinian the Great, 450
Kaempfer, Engelbert, 147, 296
Kalidasa, 4
Karachi, India, 133
Károly, Countess Alois, 434
Kawall, H., 182
Kelaart, E. F., 43, 127
Kelly, James W. S., 466
Kentucky, 262
Khayat, Azeez, 406
Khusrau crown, 411, 414
Kimmerly, 297
King of the Mound-Builders, 504
Knolles, Richard, 455
Kohl, Johann Georg, 184, 463
Koran, 7
Kosseir, Arabia, 142
Kremlin, Moscow, 417, 424
Krishna, 4, 306
Küchenmeister, F., 43
Kunstgewerbe Museum, Berlin, 421, 422
Kunz, George F., 328, 527, 528
Labrador, 281
La Bruyère, Jean de, 169
La Crosse, Wisconsin, 295
Laminæ of pearls, 53, 54
Lamnitz River, Bavaria, 171
Lampsilis, 73 alatus, 73
La Paz, Mexico, 245, 248, 251
La Pellegrina, 461–463
La Peregrina, 452, 462
Laplanders, 184
La Régente, 56, 461, 471
La Reine des Perles, 461, 469
La Salle, Robert, 505
Lea, Isaac, 290
Lead poisoning, 394
Learning, E. B., 438
Lease of pearl beds, 125–127, 135, 246, 247
Leavenworth, Indiana, 276
Le Bec, Henry, 94, 104
Lefevre and Curtis, 295
Lehigh River, Penn., 259
Leiner, Otto, 512
Levin and Melville, Earl of, 453
Lewis-Hill, Mrs., 480
License to fishermen, 204, 217, 233, 240, 282
Lima, Cathedral of, 432
Lingah shell, 68, 98, 99, 141
Linnæus, 41, 181, 286, 288
Linnean Society of London, 286
Linschoten, J. H. van, 86, 101
Lister and Mandel, Norway, 180
Lister, Martin, 170
Litchfield County, Conn., 266
Little Miami River, Ohio, 261, 262
Livonia, Russia, 182
Lobkowitz, Count Moritz, 433
Loch Dochert, Scotland, 163
Lollia Paulina, 406
London, 358, 477
London Society of Arts, 288
Longevity of pearls, 79, 473, 478
Loreto, Mexico, 245, 251
Lorraine, Dukes of, 428, 429
Lorraine, Germany, 169, 170
Louvre Museum, Paris, 5, 11, 59, 398, 403–405, 408, 430, 437, 454, 465
Love for pearls, 7, 9, 184, 304, 347, 463, 510
Lovell, Robert, 312
Lower California, 241, 247
Lower California Pearl Fishing Company, 247
Lüneburg, Germany, 176
Luster of pearls, 51, 52, 78, 293
Lyell, Sir Charles, 511
Maabar, King of, 412
Macassar, 70, 221
McEvers mound, 509
Macgowan, D. T., 288
MacGregor, David, 165
McGregor, Iowa, 272, 276
Madras, 129–130, 354, 357
Mahavansa, 4
Maine, 265
Malabar fisheries, 132
Malay Archipelago, 30, 67, 70, 201, 212–221, 296
Malcolm, Sir John, 89
Manama, Persian Gulf, 90
Manar, Gulf of, 65, 67, 99–131
Manchuria, 146, 147
Manila, 70, 221
Mani-Málá, 310
Manlius, 9
Mannheim Natural History Society, 177
Manta, Ecuador, 282
Maple-leaf shell, 73
Marbach, Austria, 179
Marbodus, Bishop of Rennes, 160
Margaret, 305
Margaret, Pearl of Bohemia, 305
Margaret Tudor, Queen, 308
Margaret, wife of James III, 22
Margarita, wife of Philip III, 432, 452
Margarita Island, Venezuela, 229, 233, 457
Margaritarii, 320
Margaritiferæ, 67, 351
Margaritifera, 296 carcharium, 70, 200 margaritifera, 68, 155, 164, 184, 190, 200, 214, 221, 425 cumingi, 44, 69 erythræensis, 69, 140 mazatlanica, 69, 248 persica, 69 martensi, 70, 148, 292 maxima, 70, 133, 200, 214, 221 panasisæ, 148 radiata, 70, 234 vinesi, 248 vulgaris, 44, 67, 68, 98, 134, 155
Margherita, Queen of Italy, 438, 442
Marguerite of Flanders, 426
Marguerite of France, 381
Maria Loretto, Prague, 423
Maria Louise, Empress of France, 461
Maria de’ Medici, 24, 308
Maria Theresa, 24 (plate), 179, 395, 473
Marichchikadde, Ceylon, 109
Marketing pearls, 349–351, 356–362
Marlborough, Duchess of, 465
Marquesas Islands, 189
Marriott mound, 498
Martial, 10
Martin, Daniel S., 492
Martyr, Peter, 38
Mary Stuart, 24, 453
Maryland, 267, 489
Massachusetts, 265
Massey-Mainwaring collection, 480
Massoudi, 86
Massowah, Egypt, 142
Matched pearls, 349
Matheson, Lady, 478
Maturity of Unios, 74
Maurus, Rabanus, 304
Medici, Lorenzo de, 313
Medicinal use of pearls, 18, 133, 308–314, 351, 360
Mediterranean Sea, 67, 185, 293
Megasthenes, 11, 85
Melbourne, Australia, Chamber of Commerce, 327
Meleagrina margaritifera, 204, 205
Melville Island, 190
Meredith, Owen, 306
Mergui Archipelago, 70, 133–139, 221
Metric carat, 325–327
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11, 405
Metz, Charles L., 498
Mexico, 23, 29, 30, 60, 69, 241–252, 433, 476
Miami Valley, 489
Middendorf, Alexander von, 184
Mikimoto, Kokichi, 292, 293
Milan, Cathedral of, 17
Miller, Hugh, 167
Mills, William C., 491, 496, 500, 506
Milman, Hugh, 206, 211
Milton, John, 87, 189, 307
Mingti, Emperor of China, 145
Missals, Decoration of, 16, 17
Mississippi clams, 72–74
Mississippi River, 258, 264, 271, 272, 273, 359
Mississippi Valley, 30, 252, 262
Missouri Historical Society, 509
Mitsukuri, K., 292
Möbius, Karl, 43, 176, 178
Mogeaud, Gaston, 398
Mogul, Great, 457
Moldau River, Austria, 178, 179
Mongareva, 192
Monster pearls, 353
Montana, 512
Monte de Piedad, 476
Monterey, Cal., 280
Montpensier, Comte de, 425
Montpensier, Duchesse de, 437
Montrose, Duchess of, 478
Moore, Clarence B., 485, 492
Moore, Thomas, 37, 241
Moore, W. H., Pearl of, 482
Moorehead, Warren K., 485, 490, 499–507
Moosehead Lake, Maine, 265
Morales, Gaspar de, 236
Moravians, 259
More, Sir Thomas, 22
Mörenhout, 192
Morgan, J. de, 403, 405
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 17
Morgan-Tiffany Collection, 266, 467
Moro Province, 215
Moscow, 461, 463
Moscow Pearl, 1840, 463
Mother-of-pearl, 6, 53, 69, 70, 80, 198, 201, 220, 238, 245
Moulins, Cathedral of, 435
Mound pearls, 485–511
Moundville, Ala., 493
Mulege, Mexico, 243, 245, 251
Müller, Sophus, 512
Munshi, Kadir, 51
Murad I, 421
Muscat, Arabia, 156
Muscatine, Iowa, 271, 276
Musée de l’Hôtel de Cluny, 16, 415
Mya margaritifera, 287
Mystic River, Conn., 266
Mystical properties, 301–308
Mytilidæ, 75
Mytilus crasitesta, 148 edulis, 43, 44, 160, 168 smaragdinus, 131
Nacre, 51, 53, 54, 66, 70, 288, 289
Nadenäs, Norway, 180
Naldi, Pio, 331, 338, 342, 343
Nao-ratna, 412
Naples Museum, 409
Napoleon I, 469
Napoleon III, 461, 470
Narahari, 78, 308
Narvaez, Pánfilo, de, 256
Nassau, Bahamas, 279
Nautilus, 59, 351
Nautilus pompilius, 78, 214, 354
Nawanagar, India, 132
Nearchus, 85
Necklace, Accumulating a, 442
Necklaces, Method of valuing, 331–333
Necklace, pearl, 273, 362, 365, 386–388, 404, 439, 443, 471, 473, 478, 480
Neisse River, Russia, 176
Nero, 9
Nesbit, Alexander, 17
New Brunswick, Canada, 281
New Cadiz, Venezuela, 229
New Caledonia, 189, 193, 194
New Guinea, 67
New Jersey, 259, 261, 290
Newport, Arkansas, 276
New York City, 260, 262
New York State, 266
Niggerhead shell, 72
Nigger hunting, 201
Nineveh Obelisk, 6
Nino, Pedro Alonso, 228
Nishikawa, T., 293, 309, 414
Nith River, Scotland, 164
Nitsche, Hinrich, 173, 174 175
Nonesuch Pond, Mass., 265
Nordica, Mme., 468, 476 (plate)
Nordica pearl, 468
North Carolina, 298
Norway, 180
Nose rings, 443
Notch Brook, N. J., 259, 260
Notice of fishery, 108, 110, 111, 130
Nova Scotia, Canada, 281
Nuclei of pearls, 41, 52, 55, 58, 60, 288, 289, 380
Nuggets, 353
Nuremberg, 320, 348
Nuttal, Mme. Zélie, 433
Oberstein, Germany, 393
Ocklocknee River, Fla., 268
Ocmulgee River, Ga., 268
Oconee River, Ga., 268, 495
Oder River, Prussia, 175
Odet River, France, 170
Oelsnitz River, Bavaria, 171
Ogeechee River, Ga., 495
Ohio, 261, 489
Ohio Archæological and Historical Society, 490, 506–508
Ohio River, 264
Okeechobee Lake, Fla., 494
Olonetz, Russia, 182, 183
Oman Coast, Arabia, 142
Omura, Gulf of, 147
Oostanaula River, Ga., 267
Opening pearl mollusks, 122, 139, 198, 209, 250, 255, 271, 273
Oppert, Jules, 85
Order of Christ, 439
Order of Crown of India, 439
Oregonia, Ohio, 497
Oriental collections of pearls, 355–357
Oriental pearls, 351, 359
Orient or luster, cause of, 53, 54
Origen 159
Origin of pearls, 35–48
Ormus, Island of, 86, 87, 457
Ortega, Iturbide, 242
Osio, Manuel, 242
Ostrea, 53, 66, 351, 467 edulis, 77 virginica, 77, 488
Ottoman crown jewels, 421
Ounce-pearls, 360
Ourejenaya Palata, Moscow, 17
Oviedo y Valdes, 229, 237, 451, 455
Oyster, edible, 77
Oyster pearls, 351
Palermo, 475
Palgrave, W. G., 90
Panama, 23, 56, 60, 69, 235–241, 451, 452
Pancake shell, 73
Panciroli, 450
Papeiti, 189, 198
Papers of pearls, 358, 360, 361, 386
Paphos pin, 405
Paragon pearls, 56, 352
Parasitic formation of pearls, 42–46, 295
Parasitic stage of Unios, 73, 295
Paris, 358, 477
Paris, Académie des Sciences, 291
Passau, Bavaria, 172, 179
Peabody Museum of Archæology, 486, 490
Peacock Throne, 458
Pearl blisters, 389, 390
Pearl-caps, 184, 185
Pearl carpet of Baroda, 460
Pearl cloth, 445
Pearl coast, 231
Pearl collar, 388
Pearl-culture, 177, 285–296
Pearl, derivation of word, 19, 20
Pearl drills, 380, 383, 385, 394
Pearl-dust, 380
Pearl forms, 295
Pearl-grading, 343–347
Pearl Islands, Panama, 239
Pearl mesh, 445
Pearl monstrance, 424
Pearl of Great Price, 7
Pearl River, N. Y., 266
“Pearl,” the poem, 20, 51
Pearls, Annual product of, 79, 80
Pearls as investments, 350, 355
Pearls as tears, 307
Pearls as wedding gifts, 306–307
Pearls, Bibliography of, 517–538
Pearls, Qualities of perfection in, 321, 336, 344, 370–372
Pearly nautilus, 78
Pear-shaped pearls, 56, 349, 352, 382, 456, 470
Pecatonica River, Wisconsin, 262
Pecten yezocusis, 148
Pedrarias, 236
Peelers, 353
Peeling pearls, 58, 375–377
Pegging pearls, 388
Pelly, Sir Lewis, 88
Penang, 221
Pendants, 404, 442, 474
Pennant, Thomas, 163
Pennsylvania, 259, 261, 266
Penrhyn, 189, 193
Perazolli, A., 143
Percival, Robert, 94, 104
Periplus of the Erythræan, 100
Perlbach River, Bavaria, 171
Perle dolce, 343
Perna, 155
Peroz Pearl, 450
Persia, 5, 31, 85–99, 404
Persian Gulf, 65, 67, 85–99
Perthshire, Scotland, 165, 166
Peru, 238
Peruvian aristocracy, 433
Petal pearls, 352, 360
Petrie, George, 425
Petrie, William F., 403
Phenicians, 319
Philip II of Spain, 431, 451, 452
Philip IV of Spain, 350
Philippine Commission, 217
Philippine Islands, 213, 217
Philo, 9
Philostratos, 285
Pickett, Albert H., 492
Piebald pearls, 60
Piercing pearls, 350. See Drilling pearls.
Pigeons, 169
Pigopitta, 213
Pinna nobilis, 155
Pinna pearls, 55, 75, 351 squamosa, 355
Pirate coast, 88, 89, 91
Pirningerbach, Austria, 179
Pisa, 24
Placuna pearls, 296, 310, 311, 351
Placuna placenta, 45, 76, 127, 132, 148, 221, 355
Plagiola securis, 73
Pleurobema œsopus, 73
Pliny, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 38, 55, 85, 159, 314, 315, 406, 409, 449
Poland, 355
Polishing pearls, 377
Polo, Marco, 19, 100, 116, 310, 357, 411, 414
Pomaré, Queen, 192, 198
Pompeiian pearls, 409
Pompey, 9
Pooto, China, 289
Port Darwin, Australia, 205
Port Kennedy, Australia, 205
Porter group of mounds, 490, 498
Porter, Sir Robert Ker, 459
Portuguese East Africa, 156
Portuguese Order of Christ, 439
Pottier, M., 407
Powder pearls, 344, 345
Powhatan, 486, 487
Prague, 416, 423, 434, 455
Prague, Association of Jewelers and Goldsmiths of, 327
Prairie du Chien, Wis., 262, 272, 275, 276
Prince Edward Island, Canada, 281
Procopius, 11, 450
Prussian regalia, 420
Ptolemy, 85
Putnam, F. W., 485, 490, 498
Puton, Ernest, 169
Quackenbush, Jacob, 260
Quadrula ebena, 72 heros, 74 plicata, 72 undulata, 72 wardi, 73
Quahog, 77
Quebec, Canada, 281
Queen Mary Pearl, 275
Queen Pearl, 260, 465
Queensland, Australia, 199, 206
Queiss River, Prussia, 176
Quelpaerd Island, 149
Ramayana, 4
Randell & Bridge, 417
Ratnagiri, India, 132
Rau, Charles, 494
Rau, Sebaldus, 95
Rawlinson, Sir Henry, 6
Read, Charles Hercules, 405, 510
Réaumur, 40
Reccesvinthus, Crown of, 16, 415–416
Redding, Sir Robert, 162
Red Sea, 31, 67, 69, 139–144, 285
Reed River, Florida, 256, 257
Regalia, 418–420, 443, 460, 473
Regen River, Bavaria, 172
Regulation of fishery, 193, 197, 204, 211, 218, 277
Renaudot, 18
Reues, Francis, 169
Rhode Island, 259
Rhodesia Museum, 513
Ribeiro, Joano, 94
Richard II, 22
Rigveda, 4
Ring-a-round pearls, 56, 353
Rings with pearls, 438, 442
Robinson, Edward, 12, 405
Rock Island, Ill., 271
Rock River, 262, 274
Rogkerus. See Rugerus.
Rome, Georgia, 267
Rome, Pearls in ancient, 8, 9, 12, 320, 406–410
Rondelet, Gulielm, 40
Rosales, Manuel Laudecta, 233
Rosaries, 413
Rosenberg Palace, Copenhagen, 59, 476
Rosengarten Museum, Constance, 512
Rosnel, Pierre de, 306, 338
Rotschildt, Don A. de, 437
Round pearls, 352, 470
Royal fifth, 243, 244
Rubies, 79, 330, 371, 392, 412, 417, 439
Rückert, Friedrich, 35
Rudolph II, 24, 455, 473
Rugerus, 381, 423
Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, 233
Rupprecht, Prince, 302
Russia, 463
Russian Jewesses, 184
Russian Treasury at Moscow, 414
Rymsdyck, J. & A. van, 342, 371
Saddle decorations, 360, 444
Sadi, Shaikh, 37
Safe-guarding pearls, 357, 399, 400
Sahayun, Bernadino de, 433
St. Augustine, 304
St. Barbara, 435
St. Denis, Paris, 425, 429, 430
St. Domingo, Lima, 432
St. Edward’s crown, 418
St. Francis River, Ark., 263, 264
St. Francisville, Ill., 276
St. Jerome, 10
St. Ludmilla, 417
St. Margaret Ætheling, 305
St. Margaret of Antioch, 305
St. Petersburg, 462
St. Stephen’s crown, 416
Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 425, 427
Sales of pearls, 477–481
Salisbury, England, 490
Sand shells, 73
Sandius, Christopher, 39
San José Island, Mexico, 248
San José Island, Panama, 239
San Miguel, Panama, 239
San Vitale, Ravenna, 15
Sanskrit literature, 4, 36
Santa Barbara, Cal., 280, 281
Santo Domingo, Mexico, 434
Santos, João dos, 153
Sapphire, 371, 412, 439
Satsuma, Japan, 147
Saumaise, Claude de, 9
Savannah River, 253, 452, 493, 495
Saville, H. M., 282
Saxony, Fisheries of, 173–175
Scaphander, 137, 171, 196, 203, 234, 240, 247, 282
Scarf-pins, 443
Schärding, Austria, 179
Scharff, R. F., 425
Schleswig-Holstein, 178
Schmerler family, 174, 177, 178
Schulz, Aurel, 154
Schuylkill River, Penn., 266, 267
Schwarzbach River, Russia, 183
Schwarzenberg, Count, 178, 434
Schwarzenberg family, 178
Schwesnitz River, Bavaria, 171
Scioto River, Ohio, 491, 506
Scioto Valley, Ohio, 489
Scotch pearls, 17, 160–164, 167, 319, 343, 427, 464
Scotland, 17, 160–167
Scott, Sir Walter, 35, 305, 419
Scriptural references, 6, 7, 449
Season, Fishery, 89, 109, 114, 141, 206, 240, 246, 250, 271, 277
Seed-pearls, 18, 56, 124, 221, 273, 309, 337, 342, 352, 391
Seed-pearl jewelry, 390–392
Selangs, 134, 139
Selling pearls, 276, 356, 361
Seneca, 10
Sermonata, Duchess of, 439
Servia, 304
Servilia pearl, 10, 449
Setting pearls, 384, 388, 389, 393
Seugne River, France, 171
Seurat, L. G., 44
Seven Sisters of Sleep, 310
Shabl Abdullah, 306
Shah Jehan, 458
Shah’s pearls in 1820, 459
Shah’s tippet, 459
Shakspere, 35, 122, 314, 319
Shark-charmers, 115, 116
Sharks, 117, 138, 144, 208, 249
Shark’s Bay, Australia, 57, 60, 70, 200, 211, 468
Shelley, P. B., 212, 278
Shell-heaps, 492
Shells, Commercial varieties, 69, 70, 72, 73, 124, 141, 143, 221
Shells, Product of, 80, 99
Shells, Sweet-water, 264
Shepaug River, Conn., 266
Shrine of St. Patrick’s Gospels, 424
Shuangtze, 302
Shu King, 5
Siam, Gulf of, 149
Siamese decoration, 439
Sibbald, Robert, 161
Siberia, Fisheries of, 147
Sieves (peddi) for pearls, 344
Silesia, Germany, 175
Silk threads for pearls, 387
Silva-Tierra, Father, 242
Simmonds, Vane, 291
Simpson, James J., 155
Sinaloa, Mexico, 244, 248
Singapore, 135, 149, 220
Size of pearls, 328, 344
Slaney River, Ireland, 162
Slugs, 272, 275, 352, 360
Smith, Captain John, 486
Smith, Charles Roach, 414
Smith, Harlan I., 492
Smith, Sir J. E., 287
Smithsonian Institution, 490
Smithville, Tenn., 263, 276
Snail shell, 139, 148
Snyder, J. F., 509
Sofala, Africa, 106, 153
Sokotra Islands, 142
Solomon, 301
Solubility of pearls, 55
Sonnapore mussels, 132
Sonora, Mexico, 241, 244, 245, 248, 251
Sorting pearls, 385
Soto, Hernando de, 253, 255, 452
Sources of pearls, 65–81
Sourindro Mohun Tagore, 309
South America, 65, 282
South Carolina, 492
Southern Cross, 57, 466, 467
South Kensington Museum, 464
South Sea Islands, 29, 30, 189–198
Spain, 327, 355
Spanish crown jewels, 452
Spanish jewelry, 432
Specific gravity of pearls, 52
Spenser, Edmund, 161
Spey River, Scotland, 164
Spherical pearls, 55, 56
Springs, Fresh-water, 96
Squier, E. George, 485, 489, 490
Stang-Alla River, France, 170
Statistics of fisheries, 80, 88, 91, 98, 100, 103, 105, 126, 136, 143, 246
Stavanger, Norway, 180
Stearns, Frederick E., 279
Steever, E. Z., 468
Steinbach River, Germany, 177
Steir River, France, 170
Stilicho pearls, 12
Stock-book for pearls, 324
Stoddard, C. W., 194
Strachey, William, 487, 488
Strawberry pearls, 56, 353
Streeter, E. W., 214, 349, 390, 465
Stringing pearls, 386–388
Strombus gigas, 77, 278, 351
Strozzi, Philip, 436
Structure of pearls, 51–55
Stupefying mollusks, 292
Suakin, Egypt, 140
Sudbury River, Mass., 265
Suetonius, 10, 159
Sugar River, Wisconsin, 262
Sultan of Sulu, 215, 217, 220, 350, 468
Sulu Archipelago, 70, 213, 214–220, 350, 468
Sumptuary laws, 10, 25–28
Susa necklace, 386, 404, 405
Sweden, 180, 286, 290
Sweetness of pearls, 305
Sydney, Australia, 201
Sydney shell, 70
Symphynota complanata, 73
Syracusan coins, 409
Syria, Pearls in ancient, 386, 406
Syrian pearl merchants, 357
Tabari, 411, 415
Tablegram Lake, Ceylon, 127
Tacitus, 159
Tahiti, 189, 190, 196, 290
Talmud, 7
Talomeco, Temple of, 254, 452
Taoists, 302
Tararequi pearls, 236, 451
Tariff on pearls, 362–369
Tasso, Torquato, 153
Taunton, Henry, 58, 202, 466
Tavernier, J. B., 56, 60, 87, 97, 147, 172, 331, 412, 456
Tavernier pearls, 456–458
Taylor mound, 497
Tay River, Scotland, 163, 164
Tears, Pearls as, 35, 307–308
Teheran, Persia, 458, 459
Teifashi, Ahmad ibn, 335
Teith River, Scotland, 164
Teixeira, Pedro, 40, 103, 242
Temple of Talomeco, 254, 452
Tennessee, 262, 263, 276, 494
Tennessee River, 263, 494
Tennyson, Alfred, 305
Terron, Juan, 255
Texas, 261, 262
Theft of pearls, 118, 123, 210, 232
Theodora, Mosaic of, 15
Theophrastus, 8, 405
Thiers necklace, 398, 465
Three-ridge shells, 72
Thursday Island, 205, 207
Thurston, Edgar, 131
Tiana, Captain, 216
Tiaras, 443
Tiffany & Co., 394
Tiffany, Charles L., 260, 276, 350
Tiffany Queen Pearl, 260, 465
Tomaco, 235
Tonti, 505
Top-shaped pearls, 352
Torres Straits, 199, 201, 210, 211
Transylvania, 432
Treves, Cathedral of, 422
Tridacna gigas, 53, 76, 144, 296
Triptych, 433
Tritigonia verrucosa, 73
Troiza Monastery, Moscow, 424
Tuamotu Islands, 29, 189, 190, 196, 198, 294
Turbinella rapa, 78
Turbo marmoratus, 139
Turner group of mounds, 490, 499
Turtleback pearls, 56, 353, 360
Tuticorin, India, 128, 130
Twynam, Sir William, 117
Tyszkiewicz statuette, 12
Uelzen, Germany, 176
Uffizi, Florence, 12, 407, 436
Uhler, P. R., 489
Ulloa, Antonio de, 238
Ulmann, H., 512
Ungava, Canada, 281
Unio complanata, 73, 265 dahuricus, 75, 146 littoralis, 511 margaritifera, 513 mongolicus, 75, 146 sinuatus, 170 verreauxi, 513 virginianus, 494
Unionidæ, 72, 351
Unios, 59, 72–74, 259, 261, 268, 272, 290, 291, 294
United States, 252–278, 291
United States National Museum, 290, 494
University of Moscow, 59
Unripe pearls, 61
Urim and Thummim, 412
Uzaramo, Africa, 154
Vaca, Cabeza de, 256
Values of pearls, 273, 274, 275, 279, 281, 282, 329–349, 350, 361, 470, 474 method of computing, 331–335, 346–348
Van Buren pearls, 464
Van Dort, K., 149
Vatican, 407
Vaughan, Rice, 338
Vedas, 3, 4, 301
Veerapandianpatanam, 130
Vega, Garcilasso de la, 253, 254, 452
Venezuela, 23, 31, 38, 70, 225–235, 354, 457
Venice, 24, 25–27, 320, 348
Venus, 306, 467
Venus de Medici, 407
Venus de Milo, 408
Venus Genetrix, 159, 407
Venus mercenaria, 77, 488
Venus of the Pantheon, 407, 449
Venus, Statues of, 10, 11
Venus, Temple of, 9
Vermont, 262
Vernatti, Sir Philiberto, 94
Verrazano, Juan, 256
Victor Emanuel II, 468
Victoria, Association of Manufacturing Jewelers of the Colony of, 327
Victoria crown, 417
Victoria, Princess, 438
Victoria, Queen, 163, 167, 425
Vienna, 395, 472
Vilshofen, Finland, 290
Vils River, Bavaria, 171
Vincennes, Indiana, 276
Vinegar, 315
Virgin pearls, 308
Virginia, 486, 488, 489
Vitellius, 10
Vladimir crown, 417
Vogtland, Saxony, 173
Volga River, Russia, 181
Vologne River, France, 169, 170
Von Middendorf, 184
Vosges mountains, 169
Wabash River, 264, 265
Waddesden collection, 59
Wahibis of Pirate Coast, 89
Waistcoat buttons, 443
Waizkirchen, 179
Waldheim, G. Fischer de, 461
Walk, How Unios, 74
Walpole, Horace, 454
Walters, Henry, 394
Washington, George, 438
Washington, State of, 262
Water-telescopes, 141, 194, 268, 278
Waynesville, Ohio, 261
Webster, John, 307
Wedding gifts of pearls, 476
Weighing pearls, 321–329, 346
Weights of pearls, 56, 251, 327, 330, 481, 482
Welker, Landreth, 177
Wellsted, J. R., 88, 93, 142
Wenkheim, Countess, 434
West Indies, 278
Westminster Abbey, 454
White Cart River, Scotland, 161
White Main River, Germany, 176
White River, Arkansas, 263, 264
Whitfield, R. P., 512
Whittier, J. G., 252
Wijayo, King, 4
Willoughby, Charles C., 486, 488
Window-glass shell, 76. See Placuna.
Wing pearls, 352, 359
Wire threads for pearls, 388
Wisconsin, 262, 276
Wohlberedt, O., 173
Women as fishermen, 149, 155, 189, 264
Wordsworth, Wm., 305
World’s Columbian Exposition, 490, 500, 501
Worms, Parasitical, 43–45
Wottawa River, Austria, 178, 179
Wright, Marie Robinson, 511
Wyman, Jeffries, 493
Wynne, Sir Richard, 161
Xavier, St. Francis, 131
X-ray examination, 71
Yaqui Indians, Mexico, 242, 243, 246
Yellow pearls, 97, 98, 212, 351, 354, 377, 468
Youssoupoff, Princess, 461, 462
Ythan River, Scotland, 164
Yucatan, 511
Yu Shun Yang, 290
Zanzibar, 156
Zonaras, 450
Zozima pearl, 461, 462
Zwemer, S. M., 35
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Footnote 1:
See pp. 301, 302.
Footnote 2:
See Jacobi, “Das Ramayana,” Bonn, 1893.
Footnote 3:
Geiger, “Dipavansa und Mahavansa, die beiden Chroniken der Insel Ceylon,” Erlangen, 1901.
Footnote 4:
Legge, “The Shu King,” Oxford, 1879, pp. 67, 69.
Footnote 5:
See p. 404.
Footnote 6:
Rawlinson, “Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia and Assyria,” London, 1850, p. 38.
Footnote 7:
Gen. R. xl. 6. This story also exists somewhat altered in Arabic literature; see Weill’s “Biblical Legends of the Mussulmans,” New York, 1846.
Footnote 8:
Sale, “Preliminary Discourse to the Quran,” London, 1882, Vol. I, pp. 153–159.
Footnote 9:
_Lib._ XXIII, c. 6.
Footnote 10:
“Plinianæ Exercitationes in Solinum,” 1629, pp. 822–4.
Footnote 11:
“Historia naturalis,” _Lib._ IX, c. 59.
Footnote 12:
_Ibid._, _Lib._ XXXVII, c. 2.
Footnote 13:
_Ibid._, _Lib._ IX, c. 53.
Footnote 14:
_Ibid._, _Lib._ XXXIII, c. 3. Also Böttiger, “Sabina oder Morgenscenen,” Leipzig, 1803, Vol. I, p. 158.
Footnote 15:
Martial, “Epigrammata,” VIII, 81.
Footnote 16:
Seneca, “De beneficiis,” _Lib._ VII, c. 9.
Footnote 17:
Pliny, “Historia naturalis,” _Lib._ IX, c. 35.
Footnote 18:
Equivalent to 1,875,000 ounces of silver, worth about $1,300,000 at the present time, but of far greater value in Roman days.
Footnote 19:
“Divus Julius Cæsar,” c. 50.
Footnote 20:
“Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines,” Paris, 1904, Vol. III, pp. 1595–6.
Footnote 21:
See p. 449.
Footnote 22:
Froehner, “La Collection Tyszkiewicz,” Munich, 1892.
Footnote 23:
See p. 415.
Footnote 24:
Renaudot, “Ancient Accounts of India and China by Two Mohammedan Travelers,” London, 1733, p. 98.
Footnote 25:
“The Book of Ser Marco Polo,” London, 1871, Vol. II, p. 275.
Footnote 26:
Analogous to the uniform European word for this gem, is the extension of the Sanskrit form, _mukta_, from Persia to the Sulu Islands. In Tamil, the word for pearl is _mootthoo_; in Hindustani, it is _mootie_; in Cingalese, _mootoo_; and in Malay, _mutya_ or _mootara_. (Ainslie, “Materia Indica,” London, 1826, Vol. I, pp. 292–297.)
Footnote 27:
Gollancz, “Pearl, an English Poem of the Fourteenth Century,” London, 1891.
Footnote 28:
Sachs, “Kaiserchronik,” Vol. IV, p. 261.
Footnote 29:
Staudenraus, “Chronik der Stadt Landshut,” 1832, Vol. I, p. 172.
Footnote 30:
Jones, “History and Mystery of Precious Stones,” London, 1880, p. 135.
Footnote 31:
Humboldt, “Personal Narrative of Travels to the New Continent,” London, 1822, Vol. II, p. 273.
Footnote 32:
See p. 473.
Footnote 33:
Yriarte, “Autour des Borgia,” Paris, 1891, pp. 136, 137.
Footnote 34:
See Yriarte, “Venice,” Paris, 1878, p. 236.
Footnote 35:
_Ibid._, pp. 252, 253.
Footnote 36:
Guidius, “De Mineralibus,” Frankfort, 1627, p. 74.
Footnote 37:
_Ibid._, p. 73.
Footnote 38:
_Ibid._, pp. 75–77.
Footnote 39:
Croker, “Lord Hervey’s Memoirs,” London, 1848, Vol. I, pp. 88, 89.
Footnote 40:
“The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus,” London, 1601,