INDEX 



221 



Dourine disease caused by T. equi- 



perdum, 168 



Drapers' Company, Promised dona- 

 tion of the, for establishing an 

 agricultural laboratory, 213 

 Dubois, 15 



on pearls, 5, 8 

 Dumas, Lectures of, 104 



Report on the epidemic of the 

 destruction of silkworms, 



113. H4 

 Durham, Captain, 22 



Edwards, A. Milne, 22 



Eider-duck, 5 



Ellis, Captain, 17 



Emin Pasha on the importance of 



mosquito-nets, 141 

 Empusa musca, 181 

 England, Malaria in, 133 

 Equidae, 82 



Reversion hypothesis in the, 84 

 Eryonidae, 41 

 Europe, Distribution of malaria in, 



131, 132, 133, 134 

 Ewart, Cossar, 67 

 Experiments in heredity, 74 



Fen districts, Malaria in the, 133 

 Fermentation, Acetous, of wine, 113 

 Alcoholic, no 

 First physical view of, 109 

 Lactic acid, no 

 Presence of oxygen, 109 

 Processes of putrefaction and 



decay, 109 



regarded as a contact action, 109 

 Studies on, 119 

 Vitalistic theory, 109 



Opposition against the, 



109 



Yeast-cells, 109 

 Fever in India, 129 



Red water, conveyed by Rhipi- 



cephalus annulatus, 172 

 conveyed by Ixodes reduvius 



in Europe, 172 



Rhodesian, conveyed by Rhipi- 



cephalus appendiculatus, 172 



conveyed by Rhipicephalus 



shipleyi, 172 

 Rocky Mountain, 171 

 Spotted, 171 

 Texas, 170 

 Tick, 170 

 Yellow, Cause of the spread of, 



163 



Organism not known which 

 causes, 163 



Filaria, 141 



Elephantiasis, 159 



bancrofti, 180 



immitis, existing in the heart 



of dogs, 1 80 

 nocturna, 157 



Round-worms in the disease 



of, i57 

 Filariasis, Disease of, 157 



Elephantiasis a variety of, 



157 



Filhol, on luminous slime, 33 

 Filippi, on origin of pearls, 4 

 Flacherie disease in silkworms, 116 

 Flies. See also under Anopheles, 

 Culicidae, Diptera, Filaria 

 Beelzebub called Lord of, 173 

 Blue-bottle fly, 167 

 Danger of, 174 

 Destruction of, creolin deters 



flies from ovipositing, 182 

 ' Fly-belts,' 166 

 House-fly, 167 



Agent in the dissemination 

 of cholera and enteric 

 fevers, 178 



Distribution of the, 176 

 First described and named 

 Musca domestica by Lin- 

 naeus, 174 

 Larva of, described by 



Bouche, 174 

 of the, turning into a 

 dark brown pupa or 

 chrysalis, 175 

 Larvae of, Food of the, 



J 75 



Life-history of, 175 

 Transformation of, de- 

 scribed by de Geer, 174 

 Meat, or blow- fly, Musca vomi- 

 toria, Maggot in the Larva 

 of, 175 

 Parasites of, 181 



Dispharagus nasutus (Rud.), 



181 



Empusca musca, 181 

 Habronema musca, 181 

 Nematodum sp. (?), 181 

 Tsetse fly conveys sleeping- 

 sickness, 169 

 Female does not lay eggs, 



166 



Larva of, 166 

 Pupa of, 1 66 

 Geographical distribution 



of the, 166 

 (Glossina), 164 

 Habits of, 165 



