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545
Metrie 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, Caspar 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 Mytilidae, 75 Mytilus crasitesta, 148
edulis, 43, 44, 160, 168
smaragdinus, 131
Nacre, 51, 53, 54t 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, Pânfilo, 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 Archaeological 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,2gi
Passau, Bavaria, 172, 179
Peabody Museum of Archaeol­ogy, 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, Ν. Υ., 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 pertection 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, Α., 143
Percival, Robert, 94, 104
Periplus of the Erythraean, 100
Perlbach River, Bavaria, 171
Perle dolee, 343
Perna, 155
Peroz Pearl, 450
Persia, 5, 31, 85-99, 404
Persian Gulf, 65, 67\ 85-99
Perthshire, Scotland, 165, 166