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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, Ε. Ζ.,
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,
35°. 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, 4°9 Syria,
Pearls in ancient, 386,
406 Syrian pearl merchants, 357
Tabari, 411, 415
Tablegram Lake, Ceylon, 127
Tacitus, 159
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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»
M7,
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, 358, 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, 19a
196, 198, 294 Turbinella rapa,· 78 Turbo marmoratus, 139 Turner group of mounds, 49°»
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 Unionidae, 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
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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
VitelHus, 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
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