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INDEX, 



locomotion of ss., 196 ; a beautiful 

 bit of anatomy, 211 ; growth of 

 nails, 303 ; on evolution, 327 ; ' eye- 

 lids ' of ss., 329; teeth, 342; per- 

 fection of fang, 364 ; a hypodermic 

 syringe, ib. 



Hybridi born at the Gardens, 425, 

 440. 



Hypodermic syringe, 364, et seq. 



Ichthyic, 244. 



Ichthyosauria, 44. 



Illustrations; often misleading, 12,102, 

 116, 190, 229, 324. 



Illustrators, responsibility of, 12, 25, 

 etc. 



Imbricated scales, 317, et seq. 



Immunity from venom, 523, 524, 538, 

 et seq., 559. 



Inadvertent intruder, an, 309. 



' Inchantments,' 281. 



Incubation of py., 79, 442, et seq., 

 434; early known, 441, 443; men- 

 tioned by Aristotle, 441 ; of Jamaica 

 boa, 449, et seq. 



India ; Prince of Wales in, 22, %"] ; 

 superstitions of, 22, 511, et seq., 517, 



555- 

 Indian Ocean ; range of sea-ss., 236 ; 



sea-ser. seen in, 256. 



' Indian siiiakes ' {see Nicholson). 



Indian vernaculars, 425. 



Indians, N. Am., their traditions, 272, 

 294, 486, 509 ; quick of hearing, 

 527 ; good physicians, 282 ; prompt 

 in danger, 391, 544. 



Ingenious chirurgeons, 268, 272 ; tak- 

 ing the lead in science, 273, 274. 



Insalivation of food, 352 {see glands). 



'Insects,' what they were, 43. 



Insensibility produced by venom, 577, 



590. 



Institution, London, Lectures at {see 

 Huxley, Ruskin). 



Integument ; expansion of, 30 ; modi- 

 fications in, 315, 320, et seq.; hood 

 of CO., 327 ; sloughing, 329 ; patterns 

 and colouring, 338, et seq. {see epi- 

 dermis). 



Intermaxillary, 31. 



Intoxication counteracted by venom, 



548, et seq. 

 Iowa, the first rattle, 295 ; the whisky 



cure, 549. 

 Ipecacuanha, an approved medicine, 



537- 

 Irritability; of rattlesnakes, 312; of 



young ss., 437, 438 ; of young slow- 

 worms, 463. 



Isodon, 347. 



/soJontiens, 347. 



Italian, a noble, 278 {see Redi). 



'J. J. A.,' shoals of sea ss., 238. 



Jamaica, blind worms in, 187 {see 

 Gosse). 



Japan, Indian Crotalidce, 386. 



Jardin (ies Plantes, Paris, 165. 



Java, Indian Crotalidce, 386. 



Java Naja, a double-headed s., 190. 



Jaws, the ; six, 32 ; sometimes seven, 

 ib. ; action of, 34; how articulated, 

 30, et seq.; widely extensible, 37, 139, 

 141, 409, 569; adjustment of, 59, 

 72, 139 ; independent action of, 32, 

 343 ; all furnished with teeth, ib. ; 

 illus. of, 349, 355. 



Jesse, 77 ; important evidence, 491. 



Johnson ' wrot on Brazile,' 277. 



Jones, Rymer, bulk of ss.' tongue, 

 118; sense of touch, 195, et seq., 

 198 ; pliancy of the spine, 196, 212 ; 

 on the rattle, 307 ; an inadvertence, 

 308; ss.' eyelids, 329; incubation, 



434, 449- 

 Jourdan, 414. 



'Joynts' ; of the rattle, 280; of the 



jaw, 370. 



'Juyce of the bag,' 556 {see salivary, 



etc.). 



K 



Kamptee, snakes at home, 501. 



Kansas, observations in, 498. 



Keel-shaped scales, 319 ; developed in 

 the Tropidonoti, 320 ; derivation, 

 223, 320 ; elaborated in viperine 



