INDEX 



Adelie penguin, 163 

 Admiralty Research Laboratory, 



268-9 

 African catfish, 194 

 Aircraft, record heights, 23 

 Albacore, 39 

 Alexander the Great (legend), 



166 

 Alexandrian Libraries, 165 

 Algae y 150 

 Amas of Japan, 157 

 Amazon bore, 84 

 Ambergris, 222 ^^ seq. 

 Anacangrispasqui, 222 

 Andromeda nebula, 100 

 Anemones, 129, 181 

 Angler-fishes, 266-7 

 Annandale, Dr. N., 116 

 Anse de L'Aiguillon mussel beds, 



131. 

 Antoniada, 30 

 Aqualung, 175 et seq., 270 

 Arata, G. F.,jun., 253 

 Archaeceti, 215 

 Architeutis, 249 

 Argonauta argo, 2^"] et seq. 

 Aristotle, 58, 140, 171 

 Asiatic jet, 67-68 

 Assyrian breathing device, 1 72 

 AstroideSy 144 

 Atmosphere, 59 et seq. 

 Atramentum (ink), 247 

 Aurelia aurita, 126 

 Amelia fiavidula, 127 

 Auxospores, 240 



Bacon, Roger, 172 



Bacteria, luminous, 262 et seq. 



Balaenoptera musculus, 209 



Baleen, 215, 216, 236 

 Barnacles, 129 

 — "closing their doors", 132 

 Basking shark, 203 

 Bathyscaphe descents, 13, 176, 



263, 270, 271 

 Batten, 160 

 Bay of Fundy bores and tides, 



84-85 

 Beaufort, Sir F., 69 

 Beaufort scale, 69 

 Bel-Aqua Thunderhead, 1 70 

 Beluga, 220 

 Benthos, 112 

 Berril, N. J., 254 

 Bivalve, largest British, 146 

 Blackfish, 54 

 Blennies, iiy et seq. 

 Blennius gattorugine, 1 1 7 

 Blennius vulgaris, 1 1 7 

 Blond, George, 232 

 Bluefish, 39 

 Blue shark, 187 

 Blue whale, 209-10 

 Bolland, W., 179 

 Bonitos, 39 

 Bora, 70 



Borelli, Giovanni, lyi et seq. 

 Bores, river, 83 et seq. 

 Bottlenose, 219 20 

 "Bouchet" system, 131 

 Bourne, 144 

 Branchellion, 197 

 Brauer, August, 267 

 Bream's speed, 38 

 Breathing devices, underwater, 



lyi et seq. 

 "Breathing plant" causing trade 



winds, 63 



273 



