INDEX 



Sperm oil business in 1864, 279 



in 1902, 280 

 first use of, 279 



whale, size, 277 

 Spermaceti, 281 

 Sphenodon, 136 

 Spicules of sponges, 1 2 

 Spider, bite, 80, 82 



black widow, 79-82 



characteristics and distribution, 80 

 Spiders, 79 



poisonous, 79 

 Spilotes, 164 



corais couperi, 164 

 Spiny anteater, 206 

 Spiny lobster, see Lobster, spiny. 

 Sponge, cleaning of, 13 



distribution, 12 



fisheries, 13, 14 



fishing, 12, 13 



industry, 12, 13, 14 



propagation of, 14 



supply, 14 



varieties, 14 

 Sponges, n, 50 



classification, 12 



colony of, n 



damage to molluscs by, 14 



Florida, 14 



fossil, 12 



reproduction, 12 



structure, n, 12 



value, 13 

 Spongin, 12 

 Sporocyst, 29 

 Sporozoa, i, 2, 46 

 Sporozoites of plasmodium, 7 

 Spotted salamander, 126 

 Spouting of whales, 276 

 Squalus, in 

 Squamata, 136 

 Squids, 45, 65 

 St. Mark's Key sponges, 13 

 Stable-fly, wing, 91 

 Starfish, 20, 21 



destructiveness to oysters, 50 



Starfish, removal from oyster beds, 50 

 Stegomyia, 8, 9, 83-85 

 Stiles, C. W., 34 

 Stingarees, see Sting-rays. 

 Sting-cells, 17 

 Sting-rays, in 

 Stomach of ruminant, 264 

 Stone-lilies, 22, 25 

 Stripping fish, 120 

 Strix pranticola, 192 

 Struthio camelus, 180, 184 

 Struthiones, 180 



Strychnine for killing pocket gophers, 

 258 



field mice, 249-50 



rats, 241 



Sturgeons, 117, 118, 119 

 Sulphur-bottom whale, 277, 282 



dioxid for killing rodents, 241 

 Surface, F. A., 137, 150 

 Surra, 4, 92 

 Swift, spiny, 151 



Texas, 151 

 Swordfish, capture of, 117 



size, 117-18 



steaks, 117 



Sylvilagus, see Rabbit. 

 Syria, sponges of, 12 



Tadpole, food, 131 



metamorphosis, 123-24 

 Taenia saginata, 27, 28 



solium, 27-29 

 Talpidae, 209 

 Tampa sponges, 13 

 Tangle, 50 

 Tapeworm, 26-28 



cure, 27 



eggs, 27 



embryo, 27 



life-history, 27, 28 



regeneration, 27 

 Tapir, 264 

 Tarantula, 79-81 



bite of so-called, 80, 81 



