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and waterfalls. Many other fishes seek the 

 depths of the oceans or lakes when winter 

 comes, and return to shallower waters only 

 when the sun rays in the next spring and sum- 

 mer again warm the water. Cod, herring, bass, 

 pike and whitefish make longer or shorter 

 migrations according to local conditions. 



wonderful of all are the migrations of 

 birds, some species traveling even 8,000 miles 

 twice a year. This absorbing story is told in 

 tin- article BIRDS, subtitle Mil/ration of Binix. 

 See, also, article on each of the animals men- 

 tioned above. V.L.K. 



|{>l:itril Siihjrct*. The forms of animal life 

 iht'tl iii these volumes are too numerous to 

 he listed here, but they ;uv nil carefully classi- 

 lit-il and indexed elsewhere. By consulting: the 

 following articles, with the indexes that follow 

 most of them, the student may acquaint himself 

 with a classification, not too technical, of the 

 important animals of the world: 

 Amphibians Invertebrates 



Animal Worship Mammals 



Arachnida Marsupials 



Birds Mollusks 



Carnivorous Animals Primates 

 Reptiles 



Crustaceans Rodents 



1 1 i senses Ungulates 



Edentata Vertebrates 



Kish Zoology 



Insects 



Animal Products 

 Ambergris Leather 



ax Mother-of-Pearl 



Jiristles Musk 



Buckskin Pearl 



fat gut Shell 



Courie Spermaceti 



ANNAM 



Gelatin 

 Glue 



Glycerine 

 Ivory 



Tallow 

 Wax 



Whalebone 

 Wool 



See, also, Animal Products in list of Related 

 Subjects at end of article FOOD. 



ANIMALS, DISEASES OF. See DISEASES, sub- 

 title Diseases of Animals. 



ANIMAL WORSHIP, a part of the religion 

 of very many barbarous and partly-civilized 

 peoples. It does not grow out of love for the 

 animals, but usually out of fear or a belief 

 that the souls of the dead live again in ani- 

 mal bodies. Just as many heathen tribes 

 worship demons because they imagine that 

 by so doing they can induce the demons not 

 to injure them, so they often worship the 

 animals of which they are most afraid, espe- 

 cially the mysterious ones that prowl about 

 at night. 



In India belief in the transmigration of souls 

 is very common; that is, most of the people 



imagine that a soul lives many lives, each life 

 in a different body, and that some of these 

 bodies are those of animals. If, therefore, a 

 man hurts a cat or a monkey or even a crawl- 

 ing bug, he may be injuring his grandfather 

 or his mother, and as a consequence the 

 greatest reverence is shown to animals. The 

 ancient Egyptians held that each god and 

 goddess had certain sacred animals, and to 

 kill one of these was to offend some deity. 

 So strong was this belief that people were in 

 some places put to death for killing a sacred 

 animal. See TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SOUL. 



ANISE, an' i. a plant grown chiefly for its 

 seeds, which because of their warm, spicy taste 

 are much used to flavor liquors and candies. 

 Although a na- 

 tive to Egypt 

 and other East- 

 ern countries, it 

 has been intro- 

 duced into Italy, 

 Spain, France, 

 Germany and the 

 United States, 

 but it can be 

 brought to per- 

 fection only in 

 regions which, 

 have a fairly 

 long, hot sum- 

 mer. The seeds 

 as well as the oil, 

 which has a sim- 

 ilar smell and taste, have some value as a 

 medicine, especially for children. 



ANN, a cape off the coast of Massachusetts, 

 thirty-one miles northeast of Boston. 'It is 

 a bold, rocky headland, containing valuable 

 quarries of gran- 

 ite for building 

 purposes. The 

 towns of Glouces- 

 ter, Rockport and 

 the village of 

 Squam are on 

 this bluff. 



ANNAM, an 

 narri , also spelled 

 ANAM, is a prov- 

 ince of Indo- 



ANISE 

 (a) flower; (&) seed. 



ANNAM 



Black area is location of 

 China between Annam. Compare its size 

 Siam and the with remainder of A 

 South China Sea 1 , under French protection 

 since 1884. It has an area of 52,100 square 

 miles and a population of nearly 6,000,000, 



