INDEX 



Acrobats, female Cretan, 253 

 Agglutination test for typhoid fever, 



354 



Ague and gnats, 332 



Airy, Sir George, and the Shah, 265 



Akkas, a pygmy race, 235 



Alexins, 353 



Alpenrose, 16 



Alpine flowers, 17, 19 

 grass, 20 



Altamira cavern, paintings of the, 247 



Alternation of generations in jelly- 

 fish, tape -worms, sea- 

 squirts, and ferns, 226 



Ambergris, 94, 191, 274 



Amethyst, origin of the name, 95 



Ancestral mammals, 136, 137 



Andaman Islanders, 230 



Angel of death, the, 331 



Animals exterminated by man, 367 



Antelopes, large and small species 

 of, 239 



Anthropological garden, 234 



Antitoxins, 348 



the theory of their formation, 352 



April fish, 268 



Aquosity, 394 



Aristotle, 86 



and the mechanisms of living 



things, 390 

 on sexes of plants, 102 



Aristotle's notions on reproduction, 

 226 



Arunta tribes of Australia, their 

 theory of conception, 229 



Ascidian, anatomy of (figure), 278 

 gill slits of, 285 



tadpole brain and eyeof (figure), 287 

 tadpole fixing itself by its head 

 (figure), 288 



Ascidians, gem-like colours of, 298 

 glass-like, 296, 302 

 or sea-squirts or tunicates, 277 



et seq. 



phosphorescent, 299 

 various composite or compound 



kinds, 296 

 Assizes, black, 330 

 Augustus Caesar and the calendar, 



262 



Aurignacian statuettes, 255 

 Australians, their views on spiritual 

 conception, 228 



Bacteria as causes of disease, 339 



Baking instead of roasting, 176 



Barnacle fixes itself by its head, as 

 does Ascidian tadpole, 295 

 history of the, 293 



Bataillon, his discovery of artificial 

 parthenogenesis, 213 



Bate, Miss Dorothea, discovers a 

 strange extinct beast, 149 



Baveno, 23 



Bayeux tapestry, horse from, 57 



Beaver, when exterminated in Bri- 

 tain, 367 



Bees taken to New Zealand to ferti- 

 lise clover, 363 

 fertilise sage, 4 



Beluga, or white whale, 385 



Bestiaries, 87 



Bezoar-stone, 94 



Birds of New Zealand, such as the 

 Moa or Dinornis, Kiwi or 

 Apteryx, Takahe or Notor- 

 nis, Kakapo or Stringops, 

 Huia or long-billed crow, 

 Kea or sheep-killing parrot, 

 359 



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