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Baroque Pearl ... ... 112
Barton, poet, quoted ... 127
Barton's buttons ... ... 89
Bath, Marquis of, purchases black Pearl ... 268 Bauran, Dr. A. de... ... 250
Bavarian Pearls ... ... 249
Bayer figured the " Southern
Cross" ... ... 307
Bdellium ... ... ... 20, 52
Beck, Le, quoted ... ... 187
Beckmann, quoted ... 246
Bell Pearls ...... 51
Beri-beri ... ... ... 173
Bible, reference to Pearls
in ......... 20, 32
Black-edged shell...... 83
Black-lipped shell... ... 232
Black Pearls ... ... 264
Blister Pearls ... ... 94,113
Blue-edged shell ... .. 232
Bluish-black Pearls ... 278 Boars, reputed origin of
Pearls from ... .. 59
Bohemian Pearls ... ... 247
Bombay shell ... ... 219
Boot, De, on Pearls ... 288 Boring shells ... 85, 95, 97
Boston of Sadi ... ... 54
Bouton Pearls ... ... 121
Braganza, Catherine of,
Pearl of ...... 290
Breeding Pearls ...... 68
Brewster, Sir D., on iridescence ... ... 87
British Pearls ...... 232
Brown Pearls ... ... 278
Buckert quoted ... ... 56
Buckinghamshire, Pearl-mussels of ... ... 239
Buddha, figures of......119, 255
