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INDEX 



O^/'x 



U 



Umbellularians, 151 



use of antiseptics by insects, 10 



use of artificial heat, 7, Z4 



use of clothing, 6, 2.4 



use of clothing by insects, 7, 16, X4, ^9 



use of fire, 6, 7, Z9 



use of narcotics by insects, 10 



use of ornaments, 6, 8, 13, 14, 17, 19 



use of poisons by insects, 9, 10 



use of slaves, 8 



use of speech, 6, 8 



use of tools, 6, 7, Z4, X9 



use of tools by insects, 7 



Varnisher bees, 11 



vegetable food of sea animals, 64, 65 



Venus' flower-basket, 2.66 



Venus* girdle, 153, 165, Z73 



Vermiformes, X49, Z55, 7.^6, 159, 2.64, 

 X70, Z7I, Z73, Z74 



Vertebrata, zzx, z6i, Z67, Z75 



vertebrates, 6, 10, 45, 50, 63, 69, 78, 

 79, 80, 83, 85, 103, 117, 118, 119, izo, 

 izi, izz, 149, 166, 167, 168, 170, 188, 

 189, 196, 199, zoo, Z07, ZZI, ZZZ, ZZ3, 

 2-47. 2-58, Z59 



vertebrates, range in size of, 118 



vinegar-eels, Z65 



vision, 77, 78, 79 



vision of birds, 80, 81, 8z 



Vonkella, 15Z 



W 



Wafers, Z65 



wasps, 8, 10, II, 18, zz, 45, 46, 138, 

 156, 159, Z33 



wasps, caterpillar, 35 



wasps, digger, 7, 16 



wasps, fossorial, Z3 



wasps, parasitic, 16, 35, 59, 60, 157 



wasps, predacious, 16 



wasps, social, 16 



wasps, solitary, 11, Z3 



wasps, wood-boring, 11 



water-fleas, Z63 



weaver-birds, iz, 17 



whales, 50, 65, 67, 167, 181 



wheel-animalcules, Z64 



whelks, 118 



white admiral, 137 



white-ants, 16, 139, 159, z66 



wholesale death of small herring, 95 



w^oolly rhinoceros, 9Z 



wolves, zo, 184, 187, 188, Z19 



wood-boring wasps, 11 



woodchucks, 48 



woodpecker, California, 15 



wood-rats, 14 



worm-like larvas of brittle-stars and 



starfishes, 150 

 worms, 67, 153, Z49, Z64, Z65 

 w^orms, archiannelid, 103 

 w^orms, arrow, 65, 76, loi, 149, i6z, 



190, Z57, Z63 

 worms, gephyrean, loi, loz, 1Z5 

 worms, gordian, Z4Z, Z43, Z74 

 worms, hirudinid, 103 

 worms, jointed, 69, loi, izo, izi, 150, 



155, 190, Z06, Z47, Z55, Z56, z6z 

 worms, myzostomid, 103 

 worms, nereid, loi, IZ5 



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