Makah Indians
Malta
Malthus, Thomas
Manchester
Manhattan; described; whales in; and sea serpent;
Mansion House, London manta ray
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Manu
Marconi, Guglielmo
Marfleet, Lincs
Margaret, whale-ship
Marianas Trench
Marine diver
Marine Mammal Program
Marquesas Islands
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass
Martin, Mary
Mary Poppins
Massachusetts Bay
Mather, Cotton
Mayflower
Mayo, Charles ‘Stormy’
Mayo family
Mayo, Josiah
Mawson, Sir Douglas
Mary Celeste
McQuhæ, Peter
Mecca
Mediterranean Sea
Medusa
Medway, river
Meinhoff, Ulrike
melancholy
Melander, Jody
Melvill, Alan
Melville, Elizabeth (neé Shaw)
Melville, Gansevoort
Melville Hall, Richard, Moby
Melville, Malcolm
Melvill, Maria (neé Gansevoort)
Melville family
MELVILLE, HERMAN (1819-1891); physical description, eating habits, clothes; born, background and upbringing; to Liverpool; to New Bedford; to London; other British visits; whaling voyage; sexuality of; sex symbol; moves to Berkshires; friendship with Hawthorne; to Holy Land; writing Moby-Dick; retires; dies; WORKS: ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’; Billy Budd; The Confidence-Man; Mardi; Omoo; Pierre; Redburn; Typee; White-Jacket; PICTURED
Melville, Stanwix
Melvill, Thomas
Memidadluk
Merchant, Hamilton
mermaid
Mersey, river
Mesmerism
mesonycids
Metropole Hotel, Brighton
Meynell, Viola
Miencke, Norwegian sailor
Mile End Road, London
Milford Haven, Wales
Millenium Dome, London
Milton, John; Paradise Lost, ix, Paradise Regained
MINKE WHALE (Balænoptera acutorostrata) (Pike whale); origin of name; blow, feeding, stranded; hunted; recovering;
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Ministry of Food
Minsky Dennis
Mitre Tavern, London
Moby, Richard Melville Hall
‘Moby Doll’
MOBY-DICK; Or, The Whale: described; writing of; publication of; compared to Walden; and Burton Constable whale; secret code; sexual symbolism in; as opera; modern interpretations. QUOTED:
CHARACTERS: Ahab; Bildad, Captain; Daggoo; Gabriel, prophet; ISHMAEL: in New Bedford; in Nantucket; Father Mapple; Moby Dick; Peleg, Captain; Pequod; Queequeg; Starbuck; Tashtego
Moby-Dick (film)
Moby-Dick (stage)
Mocha, island
Mocha Dick (sperm whale)
Mola mola (sun fish)
Monongahela, whale-ship
Montauk, Long Island
Montreal
Montrose, Scotland
Monument Mountain, Mass
Moore, Dennis Gilbert
Moore, Patrick James
Moore, Rose Margaret
Moore, Sarah (neé Leonard)
Moore, Theresa Marion (neé
Hoare)
Moore, Thomas
Morecambe
Morecambe Sands
Morris, Oswald
Morrison, W.S.
Motta family
Mount Greylock, Mass
Mystic, Conn
MYSTICETES – see also rorqual whales and separate species; 26
Nagaski
Nahant, Boston
Namu, (killer whale)
Nantucket; described, whaling from;
Nantucket Athenæum
Nantucket sleighride
Napoleon I
Napoleon III
Napoleon, Prince Eugene Louis, Prince Imperial
NARWHAL (Monodon monoceros) (sea unicorn);
NASA
Nassau, Count of, Prince Ernest
Nassau Street, Manhattan
Nattick Indians
Natural History Museum, London; whale hall;
National Gallery, London
Nazi party
necromancy
Nelson, Horatio
nematodes
Netley hospital (Royal Victoria Hospital), Hants
New Bedford, Mass; described;
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Newcastle
New England – see also Berkshires, Boston, Cape Cod, Lenox, Mystic, Pittsfield, Provincetown, Salem;
New Forest, Hants
Newfoundland
Newington Butts, London
New Kent Road, London
Newport, Rhode Island
New York – see also Bronx, Coney Island, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, Long Island, Manhattan, Long Island; described and history of; and sea serpent
New York Society Library
New York Times
New Zealand Tom (sperm whale)
Tsar Nicholas II
Nietzsche, Friedrich; Beyond Good and Evil
The Night of the Hunter
Nineveh
nitro-glycerine
Noah
Nordhoff, Charles
North German Lloyd, shipping line
North Pole
North Sea
North-West Passage
Norwich, New England
SS Oder
ODONTOCETES – see also sperm whale, killer whale, beluga, narwhal, beaked whale, dolphin, porpoise;
Okubo, Ayako
Old King Street, London
Old Tom (sperm whale)
Oliveira family
Oliver, Mary
Onassis, Aristotle
Opium
Orleans, Cape Cod
Orwell, George; Coming up for Air, Inside the Whale
Oslo, Norway
Ostend, Belgium
Otoliths
Our Lady of Lourdes
Ouse, river
Owen, Sir Richard
Oxford Street, London
Pacific Whaling Company
Pakicetus
Pannet Park, Whitby
Paris, France
Paris Review
Parker, Richard
Pattinson, Mr (baliff)
Pauline, barque
Peaked Hill, Provincetown
Pearl Street, Manhattan
Pearsal, Mr (curator)
Pease, Valentine
Peck, Gregory
Pembroke College, Cambridge
penguins
Penniman, Augusta
Penniman, Edward
Penniman, Eugene
Penn station, Manhattan
The Pentagon
Pentonville (prison)
Pequot Indians
Perseus
Peterhead, Scotland
Pet Manufacturer’s Association
Philadelphia, Penn
Phillips, John
phrenology
Pico, Azores
Pilgrim Fathers,
Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown,
PILOT WHALE (Globicephela melas), (blackfish, caaing whale, grampus); described; calves; hunted
Pinocchio
Pittsfield, Mass
plesiosaur
Pitt, William
plankton (zooplankton, phytoplankton)
Plymouth, Devon
Plymouth, Mass
Poe, Edgar Allan; Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym…
Point Barrow, Alaska
polar bear (Ursula maritimus)
Pollard, George
Pontopiddan, Bishop;
Natural History of Norway
PORPOISE; harb
our (Phocœna phocœna)
Port Hardy, Washington
Portland Gale
Port Jackson, New South Wales
Portsmouth, Hants
Portuguese man o’war
Priestley, J.B.
primates
Prince Regent, George IV
Protocetus
Provincetown, Mass; described and history of; whale-watching off; and whaling; Hell Town; East End; and sea serpent;
Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies
pterodactyls
puffin
Puritans – see also Pilgrim Fathers;
Purves, Peter
qaala
Quadresma, João
Quakers; and slavery; and whaling; persecuted; graveyards
Race Point, Provincetown,
Raines, John
Rainham, Essex
Ramu (Winston) (killer whale)
Rankin-Baransky Karen
HMS Rattler
Raymond, Frederic
Read, Enoch
Receiver of Wreck
Red Cloud, Nebraska
Red Sea
Religious Tract Society
remora
Resolution, whale-ship
Reynolds, Jeremiah
Rhode Island
Rhodes
RIGHT WHALE: North Atlantic (Eubalæna glacialis), (Biscayan whale); described; origin of name, breeding, feeding, blow, modern threats to; rescued; Southern right whale (Eubalæna australis); North Pacific (Eubalæna japonica);
Rivera, Jacob Rodgriques
Robin Hood’s Bay, Yorks
Rochester, NY
Rodhocetus
Rokeby Venus
Rome
RORQUAL WHALE – see also Humpback, Fin, Blue, Minke, Bryde’s;
Roscoe, William
Rotch, Benjamin
Rotch-Jones-Duff House, New Bedford
Rotch, Joseph
Rotch, William, senior
Rotch, William, junior
Rotherhithe, London
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rosseau, Jean-Jacques
Route 6
Route 7
Royal Academy
Royal Air Force,
Royal Aquarium
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Royal College of Surgeons
Royal Humane Society
royal fish
Royal Navy
Royal Society
RSPCA
Royal Yacht Britannia
Ruskin, John; Modern Painters
Rynders, Isaiah
Sabin, Richard
Sachs, Viola
Sagamore Bridge, Cape Cod
St Andrew’s Dock, Hull
St Barbe, John
St George, Azores
St Lawrence, packet ship
St Lawrence, waterway
St Louis, Missouri
St Mary’s, Whitby
St Paul’s, London
S Peter’s, Rome
St Vincent, Caribbean
Salem, Mass
salmon
Samuel, whale-ship
sand eel (sand lance)
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, CA
Sanredam, Jan
Santissima Trinidade, Pico
São Pedro, Pico
São Roque, Pico
Sarah and Elizabeth, whale-ship
savssat
Scheveningen, Netherlands
Scarborough, Yorks
Scawen, Sir William
Schwedier, Franz Xavier
Scoresby Mary Eliza (neé Lockwood)
Scoresby Terrace, Whitby
Scoresby, William, senior (Captain Sleet), (1760-1829)
Scoresby, William, junior (1789-1857); An Account of the Arctic Regions, Melville acquires;
Scott, Robert Falcon
Scott, Sophia (neé Exelby)
scrimshaw
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CA
Scull, David C. (Ambergris King)
Scymodon
sea eagles
Sea of Japan
sea lions
seals
Seaman’s Bethel
Seaworld, San Diego
sea serpents
Seaton, Co Durham
Seattle Aquarium
Second World War
Seigniory of Holderness, (Lord Paramount)
SEI WHALE (Balænoptera borealis)
Serengeti
Shakers
Shakespeare, William; Hamlet
Shakespeare Tavern, Manhattan
sharks – see also basking sharks, Scymodon;
Shaw, Lemuel
Shearwater: Cory’s; Greater
Shearwater, research vessel
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Shepperton Studios, Herts
Sherman, James H.
Shetland Islands
Sholing, Southampton
Shostakovich, Dimitri
Silvera family
Sinbad
Skegness, Lincs
slavery
Smeerenberg, (Blubbertown)
Smithsonian Institute
snow crystals
Society for the Suppression of Vice
Soho Square, London
Solomon
Southampton, Hants
Southampton Docks
Southampton, liner
Southampton Water
South Georgia
Southern Harvester, whale-ship
Southern Ocean
Southern Venturer, whale-ship
South Island, New Zealand
Southport, Lancs
South Sea Bubble
South Western Railway
sparrow
Speedie, Colin
Spencer, whale-ship
SPERM WHALES (Physeter
macrocephalus) (Physeter catadon) (cachalot); origin of name; taxonomy and classification; evolution; physiology; size of; longevity of; population of; range; blow; feeding; breeding; calves; brain; echo location/ sonar; communication; use of oil; spermaceti; sexual symbolism of; smell of; ‘magic’. BEHAVIOUR: diving; surfing; spy-hopping; migration;
social groups; attacking; stranded, compared to bats, buffalo, camel, dogs, hippopotamus, primates; intelligence; religion?; future; and the author; dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima), pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps). HUNTED: PICTURED: title page, frontispiece; FILMED
Spitalfields, London
Spitsbergen
Spurn Point, Yorks
squid – see also cephalopod, colossal squid, giant squid;
Sri Lanka
Stammwitz, Percy
Stammwitz, Stuart
Starbuck family
Starbuck, Edward C
Starbuck, Joseph
Starbuck, Samuel
Star of the East, whale-ship
State Theatre, New Bedford
Stellwagen Bank
Stepney Poor House
Stickney Sara
Stoker, Bram; Dracula
Stone Fleet
Storer, David Humphrys; Report on the Fishes
storm petrel, Wilson’s
Story, Amos
The Strand, London
Strasbourg Cathedral
strontium-90
Sturge, Joseph
Sturge, Thomas
sturgeon
Summerskill, Edith
Syren, whale-ship
Swain, William
Swinburne, Algernon; Lesbia Brandon
Sydney Harbour, New South Wales
Sykes, Reverend Christopher
Tahiti
Tarr, Bela: The Werckmeister Harmonies
tattooing
Tay river
Technicolor
Temple, Samuel
Tethys Sea
Thames, river; whales in
Thames Conservancy
Thompson, George
Thoreau, Henry David, (1817-1862); Walden; Cape
Cod; The Maine Woods
Thoreau, John
tiger
The Times
Timor Jack (sperm whale)
Titusville, Penn
Tolinguet, whale-ship
Tower of London
Tower Hill
Townsend, Charles H.
Trafalgar, battle of
Trafalgar Square
tuna; bluefin
Transcendentalism
Treasure Island, (film)
Trinidad
Trondheim, Norway
Truman, President Harry S.
Tuileries, Paris
Turner, Lana
Tunstall, Yorks
Turner, J.M.W
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, (film)
Typee
Typee Indians
Tyne, river
typhoid
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Uckaluk
Ultima Thule
Umm Qasr
Underground Railroad
Unicorn
Unilever
Union, whale-ship
University Museum (Natural History), Oxford
US Navy
vagina dentata
Van Buskirk, Philip C
Vancouver Aquarium
van de Velde, Esais
Ventnor, Isle of Wight
Viallelle, Alexander
Viallelle, Serge
Victoria, HRH Queen-Empress
Vietcong
vigia
Vikings
Vincent, Howard P: The Trying-out of Moby-Dick
Vishnu
Volunteer, whale-ship
Vorse, Mary Heaton
Voyager, space probe
A Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Wagner, Richard
Walden Pond
Walker, William
Wallinger, Mark: Ghost
Wallis, Edward
Wall Street, Manhattan
walrus
Warwick, New England
Washington DC
Waterloo, battle of
Waterloo Bridge, London
Waterloo station, London
Waterhouse Hawkins, Benjamin
Waters, John
Water Street, New Bedford
Webster, Daniel
Welles, Orson
Wellfleet, Mass
Wellington, New Zealand
Westminster
Westminster Abbey
Weston Shore, Southampton
The Whale – see also Moby-Dick;
WHALES – see also WHALING, separate species; scale of, anthropomorphized, in myth, first photographed, first filmed, evolution of, and man; uses of, recipes for, parasites, cancer, sounds of, intelligence, dream?, religion?, stranding; tagging; exhibited, pictures of
WHALING; described; aboriginal; from Alaska; in the Arctic; from Azores; and Basques; from British ports; from Canada; Cape Cod Bay; from Dunkirk; from Falklands; from Greenland, from Hull; from Iceland; from Japan; from London; from Madeira; from Nantucket; from Netherlands; from New Bedford; from Newcastle; from Norway; from Nova Scotia; from Milford Haven; from Russia; from South Georgia; from Whitby; and slavery; ‘actual warfare’; decline in America; peak of; restrictions on; international moratorium; PICTURED
whale lice, cyamids
White Bear hotel, Liverpool
Whitby
Whitehead, Hal
White, Paul D.
Whitman, Walt,
Whitstable
Wilberforce, William