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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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]