Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
Bartley James
Bartley William
Baseheart, Richard
Basilosaurus cetoides
basking sharks
Basques
Battersea, London
Battersea Bridge
The Battery, Manhattan
Bay of Biscay
Beagle, ship
BEAKED WHALES (ziphiids); described; Arnoux’s (Berardius arnuxii), northern bottlenose, (Hyperoodon ampullatus); Cuvier’s (Ziphius cavirostris), Sowerby’s (Mesoplodon bidens); strap-toothed (Mesoplodon layardi)
Beale, Thomas; background, voyages, to Burton Constable, dies; Natural History of the Sperm Whale; Melville acquires;
Bearpark, Arthur F.
Beaver, Harold
Beaver, whale-ship
Bedford Square, London
BELUGA WHALE (Delphinapterus leucas), described, in captivity; hunted; stray; military use of;
Bennett, Frederick
Bentley, Richard
Beowulf
Bequia, Caribbean
Bering Sea
Berkshire County Eagle
Berkshires, Mass
Berlin
Berwick, Scotland
Berzin, Alexander
Beston, Henry: The Outermost House
Beverwijk, Netherlands
The Bible; see also Genesis, Jonah, Job Bicknell, Elhanan (1788-1861)
Bigelow, Jacob
Birmingham, England
Bishop of Durham, Prince Palatine, Richard Trevor
Bishop of St Albans, Thomas Legh Claughton
The Black Death
Blackfish – see PILOT WHALE
Blackfriars Bridge
Blackpool, Lancs
Blackwall Tunnel
The Black Whale
Blake, William
The Blessing of the Fleet
The Blitz
Blue Posts, tavern, London
Blue Whale (Balænoptera musculus); hunted; recovering;
Board of Trade
Bond Street, Manhattan
Bonin Islands
Boston, Mass
Boston Entry buoy
Boston, Absalom F.
Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
Botany Bay, New South Wales
BOTTLENOSE WHALE
BOWHEAD WHALE (Balæna mysticetus)(Greenland whale); described;
Bowdoin College, Maine
Boyd, Michael
Boylston, Zabdiel
Bradbury, Ray
Bradford, Yorks
Bradford, Marlboro
Bradford, Melvin O.
Brannon, Philip: The Picture of Southampton
Bremen
Brendan the Navigator
Brewster, Cape Cod
Bridges, David
Bridlington, Yorks
Brighton, Sussex
Brighton Aquarium
British Encyclopædia
Bristol, Somerset
The British Library
Broad River, Carolina
Broadway, Manhattan
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Patrick
The Bronx
Brook Farm
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooks Pharmacy, New Bedford
Brothers Grimm
Brown, Henry
Brueghel, Pieter
Brussels
BRYDE’S WHALE (Balænoptera edeni)
Buckland, Francis
Buddhism
buffalo
Bullen, Frank; The Cruise of the Cachalot
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
Burke, Edmund
Burton Constable Hall
Burton, Robert: Anatomy of Melancholy Byron, Lord
Calcutta
Calman, TW
Calvinism
Cambridge, England
Cambridge Philosophical Society, canoas
Cape Ann, Mass
Cape Cod, Mass; described and history of
Cape Cod Bay
Cape Cod Canal
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Cape Horn, South America
Cape São Roque, South America
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Verde Islands
HMS Carcass
Caribbean
Carlyle, Thomas: Sartor Resartus
Carter’s, outfitter’s, New Bedford
Caspian Sea
Castle Clinton, Manhattan
Catholicism
Central Park, Manhattan
cephalopods (see also cuttlefish, squid, Giant Squid, Colossal Squid)
cetaceans (see also WHALES, separate species), origin of name
Cetus
Chace, Charles
Champion, Alexander
Chanel
Charing Cross, London
Charles I
Charles W. Morgan, whale-ship; described;
Chase family
Chase, Owen
Chase, William Henry
Chatham, Mass
Cheddar Gorge, Somerset
Chichester, Charles
Chichester-Constable, John Raleigh
Chiswick
cholera
Christian Dior; Dioressence
Christianity (see also Bible, Catholicism, Calvinism, Quakers, Shakers)
Christopher Mitchell, whale-ship
Churchill, Sir Winston
Clarke, Malcolm
Clemons, Tom
climate change
Clinton Street, Manhattan
Coalbrookedale
Cock Tavern, London
coelacanth
cod
Coffin family
Coffin, Kezia
Coffin, Tristram
Colchester, Essex
The Cold War
Colnett, James
Colonial Office
colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni)
Colossus of Rhodes
Colombus, Christopher
Commercial Street, London
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur
Concord, Mass
Conrad, Joseph
Constable, Marianne (neé Chichester)
Constable, Sir Thomas Ashton Clifford (1807-1870)
Constable, William (1721-1791)
Cook family
Cook, James
copepods
Coney Island
Coral, whale-ship
cormorant
corticotrophin
Costa family
County Street, New Bedford
Coup, Zack
Craven Street, London
Credland, Arthur
Creed’s of London
Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector
Crystal Palace, London
Cumbrian, whale-ship
cuttlefish
Cuvier, Frédéric (1773-1838)
Cuvier, Baron, Georges (1769-1832)
HMS Dædalus
Dagenham, Essex
Dahl, Roald
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dale Street, Liverpool
Darwin, Charles
Davis, Egerton Y
Davis Straits
Davis, W.M.: Nimrod of the Sea
Defoe, Daniel
De Groot, Pat
De Kay, J.E.
Delia, packet-ship
Delumba, Mark
Dennis, Cape Cod
De Poyster, Mr
Deptford, London
Deptford Pier
Dewhurst, Henry: Natural History of the Cetacea
diabetes
Dickens, Charles
dinosaur – see also separate species;
Diplodocus
RRS Discovery
RRS Discovery II
Disney, Walt
Docklands
DOLPHIN; bottlenose, (Tursiops truncatus); ocean dolphins, river dolphins; Commerson’s (Cephalorhynchus commersonii), common (Delphinus delphis); Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gange
tica); Haviside’s (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii), spotted (Stenella frontalis), striped (Stenella cæruleoalba), white-beaked (Lagenorhychus albirostris), white-sided (Lagenorhychus acutus); in captivity; strandings; military use of; intelligence of; hunted
Donne, John
Don Miguel (sperm whale)
Douglas, Kirk
Douglass, Frederick, (1818-1895), Narrative of Frederick Douglass;
Drake, Edwin L.
Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital-ship
Drevar, George
D’Wolf, John
Dublin
Dundee
Dundee, whale-ship
Dunkirk
Durban, South Africa
Dürer, Albrecht; Melencolia
Dusky Sound, New Zealand
Duyckinck, Evert, (1816-1878)
Duyckinck, George
Eastern Harbor, Cape Cod
Eastham, Mass
East Newton, Yorks
East Riding, Yorks
Eclectic Society of London
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Castle, tavern, London
Edinburgh, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of
Edward II
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
elephant
Elephant and Castle, London
elephant seal
Elizabeth I
HRH Elizabeth II
Eliza Swann, whale-ship
Elking, Henry
Ellery Epes
Ellis Island, New York
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emmons, Ebenezer, Report of the Mammalia
Empress, steam tug
Endeavour, ship
Enderby and Sons
Enderby, Samuel
The English Channel
The Enlightenment
epilepsy
Esk, whale-ship
Essex, whale-ship
Ethiopia
European Union
Evelyn, John
Exeter, Devon
Faial (Fayal), Azores
Fairhaven, Mass
Falkland Islands
Falklands War
Faroe Islands
Faversham, Kent
Ferreira, Dorothy
Field, David Dudley
Filey, Yorks
FIN WHALE (Balænoptera physalus) (finback, finner); described, hunted; stranded; blows; identified, feeding; modern threats to; individuals: Braid, Loon;
First World War
Firth of Forth
Fishguard, Wales
Fitzgerald, F Scott: The Gr eat Gatsby
Flamborough Head, Yorks
Flannery Sir Fortescue
Fleet Market, London
Fleet Street, London
Flipper
Floating Chapel
Flower, Sir William
flying fish
Folger family
Folger, Timothy
Fort Stanwix
Fowles, John
Foyn, Svend
Frazier, Sir James: The Golden Bough
Freemasonry
Free Public Library, New Bedford
Free Willy
French Academy (L’Académie Francais)
Friends of the Earth
Frobisher, Sir Martin
Fruitlands
Fugitive Slave Law
Futurism
Fylingdales, Yorks
Gansevoort, Peter
Galápagos Islands
Garbo, Greta
Gardner, Edward
Gardner family
Genesis
Genn, Leo
George III
Ghent, Belgium
giant squid (Archeuteuthis dux)
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
giraffe
Givenchy
Glasgow, Scotland
Gloucester, Cape Ann
Gold Rush
Goldsmith, Oliver: Animated Nature
Gordon, Jonathan
Gramercy Park, Manhattan
GRAMPUS (see also PILOT WHALE)
Grampus Bay
Grant, Cary
Gravesend, Kent
Great Exhibition
Great Hollow, Cape Cod
The Great Hunger
Green, Carlos
Greene, Richard T. (Toby)
Greenland
Greenland Sea
Greenland Yards, Hull
Greenwich, London
Greenock, Scotland
Greenpeace
Grenadine Islands
GREY WHALE (Eschrichtius robustus)
Griffiths, Elizabeth
Griffiths, Julia
Grove Street, Whitby
Grytviken, South Georgia
Gulf of Maine
Gulf Stream
Gulf War, second
Hackney Empire
The Hague
Haley, Nelson Cole
Hamburg, Germany
hawksbill turtle
Hamlet
Hancock, Mass
Hanson, Kenneth O.
Harmer, Sidney
Harmony, whale-ship
Harper and Brothers
harpoons
Harvard, Mass
Harwich, Cape Cod
Hashidate Maru, whale-ship
Hawaii
Haworth, Yorks
Hawthorne, Julian
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, (1804-1864); background; friendship with Melville; friendship with Thoreau; consulship in Liverpool; WORKS: The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables; Mosses from an Old Manse: ‘Earth’s Holocaust’, ‘Fire Worship’, ‘Young Goodman Brown’;
Hawthorne, Rose
Hawthorne, Sophia
Hawthorne, Una
Heap House, Lincs
Hemingway, Ernest
Henkel’s, manufactory
Henrietta, whale-ship
herring
Herring Cove, Provincetown
Himalayas
Hinduism
Hinton, Harry
Hiroshima
Hispanola, ship
Hoar, Edward
Hoare family
HOARE, PHILIP: born, childhood; family, mother, father, sisters, grandfather (maternal), grandfather (paternal), great-grandfather (paternal), ancestors; fear of water, dreams; sees whales in wild; seeks to explain whales et passim; and London whale; and sperm whales; TRAVELS: and Southampton; in London; to New York; to Provincetown; to New Bedford; to Nantucket; to Yorkshire; to Lincolnshire; to the Azores
Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan
Holderness, Yorks
Hollywood
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Holocene
Holub, Miroslav
Holy Land
Homberg, Wilhelm
Home Guard
SS Hope, whale-ship
Hopper, Edward
Housatonic river
Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster)
Howland Great Wet Dock (Greenland Dock)
Hubble space telescope
Hudson, New York
Hudson river
Hudson, W.A.
Huggins, William John (1781-1845); South Sea Whale Fishery
Hull, described; whaling from
Hull Literary and Philosophical Society
Hull Maritime Museum,
Humber river
HUMPBACK WHALE (Megaptera novæangliæ); origin of scientific name; physiology, migration, feeding; breeding; sexing; hunted; stranded; modern threats to; identified; BEHAVIOUR: diving, breeching; lobtailing; flipper slapping, singing, blows; INDIVIDUALS: Agassi, Anchor, Colt, Coral, Cygnus, Filament, Fulcrum, Ganesh, Glostick, Habenero, Meteor, Nile, Roswell, Salt, Scratch’s calf, Sockeye, Sloop, Stubb, Valley, Ventisca
Hussey, Christopher senior
Hussey, Christopher junior
Hussey family
Huston, John
Hyannis, Mass
Ibis, rescue boat
icthyosaur
Icy Glen
iguanodon
Illustrated Animal Encyclopædia
Illustrated London News
impala
Indohyus
Industrial Revolution
Industry, whale-ship
Institut d’Afrique
insulin
International Red Cross
International Whaling Commission
Inuit
Iñupiat
Irish Sea
Irving, Washington
Islam
Island Bay, New Zealand
Isle of Wight
Iveson, Richard
Jacquet, Natalie
James, C.L.R.
Japanese Embassy, Berlin
JARPA, JARPN, JARPA II, Antarctic Research Programme
jellyfish
Jenssen, Gunder
Jeroboam, whale-ship
Jesus Christ
jet
Job
Johnny Cake Hill
Johnson, Amy
Johnson, Thomas
Jonah,
Joranson, Eric
Kamchatka Peninsula
Katwijk, Netherlands
Keadby Lincs
Kennedy, Mrs Jacqueline
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Kent, Rockwell
Kent, whale-ship
Kendrick, Alison
keratin
Kew Bridge, London
KILLER WHALE (Orca orcinus); in captivity; attacking sperm whales; attacking humpbacks; military use of;
King’s Road, Chelsea
Kircaldy Scotland
Knickerbocker Magazine
Koran
kraken
The Kremlin
Kunitz, Stanley, ‘The Wellfleet Whale’
Kutchicetus
Labrador
Lacépede, Bernard, comte de: Natural History of Whales
Lajes do Pico
Lancaster
Lancing, whale-ship
Lake District
lamprey
Landry, Scott
Lansingburgh, New York
Law and Order Party
Lawrence, D.H., Studies in Classic American Literature
Lawton, William
League of Nations
Lee-on-Solent, Hants
Leith, Scotland
Lenox, Mass
Leopold, Aldo
Liberty Island, NYC
The Lifeguards
Lightfoot, Mr
Lilly, John C
Lima, Peru
Lincoln, Abraham
Linnæan Society of Boston
Linnæus, Carl
Lisbon
Little Humber
Little Red Inn, Lenox
Lively, whale-ship
Liverpool; as whaling port
Lloyd’s Coffee house, London
Lobo, New Mexico
Loch Ness monster
London; whales in; as whaling port
London Bridge
London Docks
London Hospital
Long Island
Long Island Sound
Long Point, Provincetown
Lord Hawkesbury, whale-ship
Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques de
LSD
Mablethorpe, Lincs
MacArthur, Douglas
Macaulay Thomas Babington
Macey family
Macey Obed; History of Nantucket
Macey, Thomas
Macmillan Wharf, Provincetown
Madeira
Mahone Bay, Halifax
Maiden, William
Main Street, Nantucket