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The Blood : Effect of Quinine on White Corpuscles, 276 ; Variation in 

 Size of Corpuscles, 276 ; Modification of Blood Globules, 277 ; Iron in the 

 Blood, 314; Influence of Colored Rays on Respiration, 313; Respiration of 

 Fish, 261. 



The Skeleton : Effect of Interment on the Structure of Bone, 295; Trans- 

 plantation of Periosteum, 280 ; Teeth in Young Sturgeon, 264 ; Growth of 

 Finger Nails, 282 ; Carpal and Tarsal Bones of Birds, 336. 



The Muscles : Transversely Striated Muscular Fibre in Acari, 278 ; Re- 

 lation of Glycogen to Muscular Action, 281; Left and Right Handedness, 

 237, 296. 



Animal Heat : Effect of swinging Rabbits in lowering, 279 ; new The- 

 ory of, 323. 



Miscellaneous: Haemoglobin, 264; Cellulose in Animal Tissues, 276; 

 Chondrine in Tunicates, 301 ; Bloody Secretion from the Eye of the Horn- 

 ed Toad, 256 ; Metamorphoses of Frogs, 257 ; Generation of Eels, 299 ; 

 Chemical Composition of Gases in the Air-bladder of Fish, 104 ; of Clean 

 and Foul Salmon, 106; Absorption of Insoluble Matter through Membranes, 

 279 ; Transplantation of the Periosteum, 280 ; Development of Fibrine from 

 Albumen, 281; Starvation and the* Secretion of Milk, 282; Physiological 

 Action of Coffee, Tea, etc., 283 ; of Quinine, 284 ; of Tobacco, 285 ; Phos- 

 phorescence of Marine Animals, 289 ; of Pyrosoma, 290 ; Left and Right 

 Handedness, 237, 296 ; Noctilucine, 334. 

 FAUNAS. 



Madagascar (Grandidier), 213 ; Thibet (David), 213, 318 ; Discoveries of 

 Agassiz in the Deep Seas, 214, 215 ; Mixture of Marine and Brackish, 217 ; 

 Comparison of the Fauna of Europe and Massachusetts, 304 ; Birds of New 

 Zealand, 309 ; North American (Coues), 310 ; of Galapagos, 312 ; of Florida, 

 320 ; of Kansas, 321 ; of the British Islands, 320. 



ANIMALS IN GENERAL. 



Curious Animal dredged on the Australian Eclipse Expedition, 275 ; Fossils 

 from the Nevada Shales, 308. 



VERTEBRATA IN GENERAL. 



The '-Sea-serpent," 220, 296 ; Fight of a Cobra and Mongoose, 255; Phos- 

 phoresence of Marine Animals, 289 ; new Bone Cave in Germany, 222 ; Fos- 

 sils of Nevada Shales, 308 ; new Fossil Vertebrates, 305, 306. 



MAMMALS. 



Modern Man: Phoenician Inscriptions, 230; Tanis Stone, 230; Egyptian An- 

 tiquities, 231 ; German Ethnological Museum, 232 ; Stranding of a Japa- 

 nese Junk on the Aleutians, 232 ; Esquimaux Settlements in East Greenland, 

 233, 234 ; Dwarfed Head, 235 ;- Anthropological Institute of New York, 236 ; 

 Collection of Indian Relics, 236 ; Preferential Use of the Right Hand, 237, 

 296 ; International Congress, 293 ; American Oriental Society ; Traces of 

 Indian Races in Europe, 313; Relation of Indians to Game, 234; Educa- 

 tion in Japan, 233 ; Defective Brain and Deformed Features, 237 ; Use of the 

 Boomerang in America, 235 ; in the Old World, 316 ; present Population of 

 the Globe, 329. 



Prehistoric Man : Prehistoric Corpse in Holstein, 220 ; Prehistoric Man 

 in America, 295, 329 ; in Wyoming, 330 ; at Soloutre, 331 ; in Alaska, 327 ; 



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