INDEX 



227 



Piroplasmosis, Heartwater in sheep 



a form of, 171 



Under the name of Rocky 

 Mountain fever, spotted or 

 tick fever, the disease attacks 

 man, 171 



Plankton Expedition, 27 

 Pliny, i 



on British pearls, 5 

 on Ceylon pearls, 8 

 Plunkett, Sir Horace, 67 

 Polarization, 106 

 Poole, Colonel, Stripes of Kathia- 



war horses, 83 

 Port Swettenham, Malaria reduced 



at, 162 

 Prepotency, Importance of, in 



breeding, 91 



Obtained by inbreeding, 91 

 Sport often prepotent, 95 

 Prismatic layer, 2 

 Protozoa, Discovery of, in Malaria, 



X 34 



Puehler, 17 

 Pullen, Captain, 21 

 Pycnogonids, Legs of the, 37 



Quagga, Domestication of the, 75, 



82 

 Quinine, Introduction of, into 



Europe, 139 



Use of, in Malaria, 139, 150, 

 162 



Rabbits, Breeding experiments 



with, 87 

 Rabies, 123, 124, 125 



Attenuated virus of, 123, 124 



First inoculation against, 124 

 Racehorses, Breeding of, 93 



Byerly Turk, 93 



Darley Arabian, 93 



Deterioration in the staying 

 power of, 93 



Godolphin Arabian, 93 

 Radiolarians, 31 



'Phseodaria' existing in, 34 



Skeletons of, 40 

 Rayleigh, Lord, 187 



Gift of the Nobel Prize, 191 

 Recapitulation theory, 74 

 Red clay, 31 

 Redia larva, in 

 Redi, Francesco, in 

 Redwater fever, 170, 172 

 Reinke, 66 

 Remus, 96 

 Rhabdopleura, 41 



Rhinopterajavanica, 13, 14 

 Rhtyicephalus annulatus conveys Red- 

 water fever, 172 

 appendiculatus conveys Rho- 



desian fever, 172 

 shipleyi conveys Rhodesian 



fever, 172 

 Rikitea, 14 



Rivers, Dr., and Myers, Dr., For- 

 mation of a school for psycho- 

 physics, 209 



Romanes, on ' Physiological selec- 

 tion,' 91 



on ' Regression towards medi- 

 ocrity,' 91 



on the Swamping effect of inter- 

 crossing, 91 

 Suggested explanations of tele- 



gony, 79 

 Romulus, 96 



Production of, 85 

 Ross, "Sir James, 18 

 Sir John, 18, 19 



Major R., on Hamamceba (Pro- 

 teosoma), relicta worked 

 out by, 146 



on Number of deaths due 

 to ' fever ' in India, 

 129 



Researches, 142, 143 

 Work on the malarial para- 

 site, 125, 141 



Sagitta, 25, 32 



Sambon, Dr. See Low, Dr. 



Sandilands, Dr., Investigations on 



epidemic diarrhosa, 179 

 Sargasso Sea, Temperature of the, 



27 



Sars, Professor G. O., Fertilization 

 of the floating ova of the cod, 

 46 

 Fertilization of the floating ova 



of the mackerel, 46 

 Michael, 19 



Sassari, Extermination of mos- 

 quitoes by the use of petroleum, 



154 



Schwann, 109 

 Scoter, 6 

 Sea, Atlantic current, Temperature 



of the, 44 

 Colour of the, 18 

 Deep, Explorations, A. Agas- 

 siz's voyage in the 

 Blake, 20 



Albatross's voyage, 20 

 Bache's, 19 

 Bailey's, 19 



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