INDEX. 



LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. 



Am., American ; Ass., Association ; Br., British ; co., cobra ; Con., Conven- 

 tion ; cons., constrictor; cro., crotalus ; cy., cyclopaedia; C.M.Z.S., Corre- 

 sponding Member of the Zoological Society; F.Z., Fellow of the Zoological 

 Society; hist., history ; nat., natural; N.Y., New York; py., python; Soc, 

 Society; s., snake; ss., snakes; ser., serpent; v., viper; vs., vipers; U.S., 

 United States ; z., zoological ; Z.G., Zoological Gardens ; Trans., Transactions ; 

 Proc, Proceedings. 



' Aberfoyle ' (the barque), sea-ser. seen 



from, 249. 

 Abnormal development, of teeth, 67 ; 



of sea-sers., 265, et seq. ; of hair, 



302; tAvo heads, 189. 

 Abnormal, health in captivity, 84, 440, 



450. 457, 565 ; gestation, 437, 439, 



et seq. , 459, 466, 505. 

 Academy of Sciences, Paris, 444. 

 Aca/tetepoii, the, 590. 

 'Account, of the Beasts in Virginia,' 



280 ; of the rattlesnake, 275. 

 Acrobats, 181, 196, 198, 214, et seq., 



219, 239, 472, et seq. 

 Adaptation, of organization, 70, 135 ; 



of haints to temperature, 159, et seq. 



{see hibernation); of coils, 200, 204; 



of ribs in progression, 207 ; of form, 



215. 

 Adaptive development, of head bones, 



31, 34; of spine bones, 70; of wind- 

 pipe, 132 ; of salivary glands, 342, 



350, 537, 557 ; of teeth, 348, 350, 



364, 408. 

 Adipose tissue, 394. 

 Admiralty, the, report of a sea-ser. 



t-., 255, 259. 



Advance of Ophiology, 3, 21, 75, 8r, 

 191, 273, 353, 363, 372, 443, 4S5, 

 515, et seq. 



^lian, an error traced to, 191. 



^sculapius, his remedies, 522. 



Africa, range of sea-s., 236. 



Air-bladder, the, 262. 



Air-breathers, 44, 146, 222, 265. 



Air-tube, 132, 135, 137, et s,q. {see 

 glottis, respiration). 



'Albert Nyanza,' the, 358. 



A ceste. Voyage of the, iii, et seq. 



AlcGbol a popular remedy, 548, et 

 seq. 



Aldrovandus, 102 ; his work, 272. 



Alexander the Great, 407 (see Bu- 

 cephalus). 



Alligators, 43, 261. 



Amazon, the Jararaca, 421 ; Wallace's 

 'Travels in,' tb. ; anaconda from, 



455-. 

 'American Agriculturist,' the, 485. 



American Ass. for tlie Advancement of 



Science, 485, et seq., 572; secretary 



to, 490. 

 American colonies, the, 284. 

 'American Naturalist,' the, 93, 151, 



308, 310, 450, 485, et seq., 490; 



editor of, 485 (see Putnam). 

 American sea-ser. 





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