INDEX' 



^lianus, 48, 65, ^7 



Air admitted to flask containing 



meat, 36 

 Aldrovandi, Ulysse, 43, 57, 65 

 Alfiruzabadi, Jacob, names lice 



in the Alcamus, 120 

 Anaxagoras, 96 

 Anaximander, 23 

 Anima, 91 

 Anima mundi, 24^ 

 Antigonus Carystius, 38 

 Ants, parasites of, 121 

 Archelaus the Athenian, 22, 42 

 Aristotle stated that nits do not 



produce animals, lice, 119 

 Aristotle, 5, 46, 69, 113 

 Ascidian, 98 

 Atoms, 25, 91 



Barbary scorpions, 57 



Bark, eggs on, 113 



Bartholin, Thomas, 43, 51 



Bees, 38-47, 49 



Beetles, 50 



Bellini, 7 



Berni, poem by, 97-98 



Bible, references to bees ex- 

 plained, 44-45 



Bibliography, 13 , , . 



Biogenesis, ii, 26-27; dead ani- 

 mal and vegetable matter a 

 breeding place for flies, 90 



Bird lice, 123 ; see plates 



Borelli, 7, 9 



Bruno, 5 



Butterflies, of plum, peach, and 

 pear, 102 coition observed, 

 103; life history. 103; of 

 holm oak, 104; of night- 

 shade, 104-105; of oak, 105- 

 107; Ecdysis observed, 106; 

 eggs laid, 106; unfertilized 

 eggs do not hatch, 107; of 

 cabbage, 107-108 



Cabbage butterfly, 107-108; life 



history observed, 113 

 Campanella, 5 

 Cannibalism of animals, 67 

 Caporali's verses on the life oi 



Maecenas, 118 

 Cardano, Jerome, 43, 50 

 Carrion flies. 27 

 Caterpillars, 103-108 

 Celsus, 38 



Cherry worm, 99-100, lOl 

 Cheese, old views concerning 



worms in, -JZ', experiments 



with, 74-75 

 Chrysalis, 106 

 Clematis, 85 

 Closed flasks, experiments with, 



Cocoons, 103-100 

 Coition of flies, 74 

 Columella, 38, 39, 46 ^ 



Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tus- 

 cany, 6 

 Crabs, 36 

 Crescenzi, Pietro, 43, 47 



1 Page numbers in italics indicate the position of illustrations. Most of the 

 illustrations are reduced to about two-thirds the size of the original engrav- 

 ings. Plate 15 is the same size. Plates 20-22 and 25-28 arc reduced to about 

 three-fourths, and Plates 13. z^* and 29, to about one half. 



