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INDEX 



Abies, the genus of the Silver Fir, 317 

 Acorns, sea-, 100, 1 10 

 Actinia mesembryanthemum, a 

 common sea-anemone, 85, 86 

 living in an aquarium for fifty 

 years, 86 

 African animals, preservation of, 20 

 Alchemists and the divining-rod, 385 

 Aldeburgh, amber to be bought 

 there, 74 

 the great pebble beach at, 55 

 Alpine flowers, 161 



reason of strong colour of, 167, 

 168 

 Amber, 71-76 



chemical nature of, 75 

 insects in, 73 

 uses of, 73, 74 

 Amber-routes, 70 



Ambleteuse, once a great harbour, 51 

 Amphioxus, 2 

 Anchovy, the, 359 



sauce, its history and colour, 359 

 Anemone, the Weymouth, 88 

 Anemones, sea-, 81, 84, 85, 86 



fertilization of, 186 

 Anthea cereus, a sea- anemone, 86 

 Ape, the lines on the palm of the, 



373 

 to man, from, 236-291 



Apes, mental qualities of, 241, 242 



Aquariums, marine, made fashionable 



by Mr. Gosse, 83 

 " Arabian Nights," stories as to men 



turned into fish, 353 

 [Araucaria, the monkey-puzzle, 329 

 Arbor vitas, a kind of cypress, 330 

 Argentiere (Switzerland), 164 

 Aril of the yew tree, 310 

 Arthropods or jointed-leg owners, 



102, 103 

 Ashtaroth, 352 

 Astrology, 372 

 Atargatis, 352 

 Atlas cedar, 320 

 Augurs, the Roman corporation of, 



371 



\urelia, the common jelly-fish, 95 



27 



Australian natives, 29, 30 

 Autom.ata, animals as, 187 



Balancers or dwindled wings of the 



two-winged flies, 218 

 Balanus, the sea-acorn or acorn- 

 barnacle, no 

 Ballet, Russian Imperial, 169, 177 

 Barnacle, growth and transformation 

 of, 111-113 

 the legend of the, and the goose, 



118-141 

 the ship's, figure of, 109 

 Barnacle-goose, the, 118 

 Barnacles, 100, 108-141 



nauplius young of, discovered by 

 the Army surgeon, Vaughan 

 Thompson, 107 

 their " complemental males" dis- 

 covered by Darwin, 115 

 Barrett, Sir W. F., on water-finders, 



389. 390 

 Beaches, constituents of, 53, 55-63 

 Bee, the queen, retains the sperm of 



one drone for four or five 



years, 405 

 Beit, M. Otto, 408 

 Bernacae and bernak, Celtic word for 



shell-fish, 121 

 Berri-berri, a disease due to bad diet, 



297 

 Birds believed to be produced by 



trees, 118 

 their courtship, 298-300 

 Birth-marks, belief in, similar to that 



in magical power of water- 

 finders, 390 

 experiment by the patriarch Jacob, 



391, 399 

 Mr. Heape on, 398 

 Bivalve and univalve shells, 143 

 Bleeding of the nose, Latin hymn 



to arrest, 343 

 Blood, amount of, in man's body, 348 

 coloured blue in scorpions, crus- 

 taceans, and molluscs, 346 

 colourless corpuscles of, 349 

 colourless, of lower animals, 346 



