INDEX 



3d5 



Muscle-nerve preparation of Swam- 



merdam, 199. 

 Mussel, see Anodon and Mytilus. 

 Mytilus, Leeuwenhoek on, 211 ; 



Heide, 213. 



Natural history in Middle Ages, 10. 

 Natural theology, 113. 

 Nearchus, 52. 



Nectaries discovered by Malpighi, 

 156 ; Linnaeus ou, 324. 



Olaus Magnus, 58, 107. 



Opossum, 60. 



Ortus Sanitatis, 13. 



Oviedo, 60. 



Oyster, cilia of, 212 ; anatomy of, 237. 



Pallas, 75. 



Parts of the flower, 346. 



Pena, 32. 



Penny, 85. 



Perrault, Claude, 229 ; on feathers, 

 231. 



Peter Martyr Anglerius, 59. 



Peysonnel, 276. 



Physiologus, 7. 



Plants, English names of, 8 ; sexes of, 

 125, 171. 



Pliny, 5, 6, 27, 28, 52, 56; on silk, 

 96, 119, 136; on date-palm, 338; 

 on parts of the flower, 337 ; on 

 sexes of plants, 338. 



Pluche, Spectacle de la Nature, 236. 



Plumier, 32. 



Pollen, 337, 348 ; Valerius Cordus on, 

 28; Grew, 171, 172 n. 



Polyzoa, Hooke on, 142; Leeuwen- 

 hoek, 212; Roesel, 301. 



Poupart, 229-236. 



Priestley, 3.35. 



"Prolepsis" of Linnaeus, 325. 



Protozoa, Hooke on, 140 ; Leeuwen- 

 hoek and Roesel, 216. 



Proverbs, i'ay on, 128. 



Ptolemies, 52. 



Puss moth, investigation of, 303. 



Kamond, 35. 



Ranunculaceae, A. L. de Jussieu on, 



353 

 Ray, 37, 46, 75, 77, 99 ; on androgyny 



of snails, 118; on sexuality of, 



plants, 125 ; on species, 125. 

 •* Ray's Travels," 128. 

 Reaumur, 230, 244, 278, 281, 285, 



286 ; on Puss moth, 304. 

 Redi, 225. 



RefteliuH (juoted, 38. 

 Reverse plantinj^, 218. 

 Revival of learning, 9. 



Revival of botany, 12. 



and zoology in Englamd, 76. 



Rhineland, 15. 



Rivinus, 122, 123, 319. 



Roesel von Rosenhof on Amoeba, 216, 



302. 

 Rollin on natural history for young 



persons, 236. 

 Rondelet, 28, 30, 45, 1 12. 

 Roth's life of Brunfels, 17 ; of Bock, 



20. 

 Rotifers, Leeuwenhoek on, 214. 

 Ruel, 14, 18. 



Salviani, 47. 



Sap of trees, Ray and Willughby's 

 experiments on, 119; Malpighi's, 

 120. 



Scale of Creation, 290, 371. 



Scale-insect of orange-tree, 236 ; 

 Frisch and Breyn on male insect, 

 244. 



Schott of Strasburg, 17. 



Science in Middle Ages, 10. 



Sensitive plant, 73, 144. 



Serres, O. de, 93. 



Sexes of plants, 125, 171 ; views of 

 the ancients, 337-8, of Malpighi, 

 Millington, Grew and Ray, ^; 

 experiments of Camerarius, 339 ; 

 Morland, 341 ; GeoflFroy and Brad- 

 ley, 342 ; Vaillant, 343 ; A. P. de 

 Candolle, Amici and Robert Brown, 

 345 ; Kolreuter, 349 ; Sprengel, 

 Darwin and H. Miiller, 350. 



Sexual system of Linnajus, 325, 331. 



Silk, Pliny on, 96 ; 0. de Serres on, 

 97 ; Reaumur on, 256. 



— of spiders, Reaumur on, 247. 

 Silkworm, 53, 96 ; Malpighi on 



anatomy of, 160. 

 Slubber on Sagitta, nauplii and 



Noctiluca, 303. 

 Sloth, 61. 

 Snail, androgyny of, 118. 



— Swammerdam on, 194. 

 Sorbonne, the, 367. 

 Species, Ray on, 126. 



— , origin of, Linn»us on, 332 ; Buflon 



CD, 375. 

 Sperm-whale, 78. 

 Spermatozoa, Hamm and Leeawen> 



hoek on, 204. 

 Spiders, Leeuwenhoek on, 200 ; Litter 



on, 132. 

 Sprengel on cross-f«iUiaatioa of 



flowers, 340. 

 SUmens, fanotlonof, 171, 173n. t Mt 



also Boxes of planU. 

 Stono or SUomb, 174. 176, 179, 



190 n. 



