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INDEX 



Dante, 20, 47 



Dati, C, 7 



Dead animals do not produce 

 worms, 38 



Decayed plants, insects in, 89 



Democritus, 23, 96 



Descartes, 



Didymus, 46; in " Country-Life," 

 speaks of lice, 120 



Digby, Sir Kenelm, 36 



Digestion, Tz 



Dioscorides, 89 



Divini, Eustachio, maker of mi- 

 croscopes, 125 



Dung, breeding place of flies 

 and gnats, not bees, 43 



Earth mother, 21-24 

 Ecdysis, of caterpillar, 106 

 Eggs, of carrion flies, 31 

 Eggs laid by butterflies, 113; on 

 cabbage stalks, in the cracks 

 of bark, on elder tree 

 Elder, caterpillars * on, parasit- 

 ized, 113-115 

 Empedocles, 22, 96 

 Epicurus, 22 

 Evolution, early theories of, 21- 



24 

 Experimental method, 20-21 

 Experiments: Carrion flies, 2^ \ 

 with closed flasks, 33; meat 

 under ground, 34; with dead 

 flies, 34; meat in gauze cov- 

 ered flask, 36-37; on the 

 origin of scorpions, 51 ; 

 toads proved not to arise 

 from putrefying duck, 64; 

 effect of oil on maggots, 65 ; 

 drowning of flies, 65-66; 

 with cheese, 74-75; with 

 melon and pumpkin, 76 

 Explanation of plates, 125 



Fabri, Honore, ZJ, 44, 78 



Feeling and motion, 99 



Filbert worm, loo-ioi 



Filicaja, 6 



Fiorentino, 40 



Flies, 27; viviparous, 37; ova- 

 ries, 38; bred in tun-fish, 66; 

 breed in dung, 43 ; cheese 



flies, 74-75; coition ob- 

 served, 74 



Folli, Francesco, inventor of 

 hygrometer, 43 



Frogs, 77-80; sudden appearance 

 after rain explained, 80 



Fruits, secondary purpose, 92 



Fungi, worms in living fungi, 90 



Galen, 26, 39, 57 



Galileo, 5, 9 



Gall, insects, 109-/ jo, hi; wil- 

 low galls, 112; Kircher 



Galls, 70, 92-95; peculiar insects, 

 94 ; differ in times of matur- 

 ity, 94 



Gassendi, Pierre, 42, T^^ 9i 



Generative principle, 'J2>i 91, 92 



Gnats parasitic on carrion fly 

 larvae, 32 



Gnats, breed in dung, 43 



Gottigniez, 7 



Grembs, Francis, 43 



Hair snakes produced from 



women's hair, according to 



Avicenna, 64 

 Harvey, W., 9; all living things 



born from seed, 24-25 

 Heart of snake, 81 

 Heterogenesis in living plants, 



91-92, 116; tapeworms, bot- 

 flies, 116 

 Homer, 2iZ 

 Hornets, eat meat, 47 ; poison 



not dependent on food, 48; 



feed on bees and flies, 49; 



originate in flesh of dead 



horses, according to Virgil 



and Ovid, 50 

 Houillier, Jacques, 52 



Ichneumon-fly, iid 



Insects, 23; killed by oil, 65: 

 when really drowned can 

 not be revived, 66 ; in de- 

 cayed plants, 89 



Isopod? (Arcturus?), 122 



Jesuits, 5 

 Johnston, John, 43 



Kepler, 5 

 Kiranis, 64 



