INDEX 



Abies, the genus of the Silver Fir, 317 



Acorns, sea-, loo, no 



Actinia mesembryanthemum, a 



common sea-anemone, 85, 86 

 living in an aquarium for fifty 



years, 86 



African animals, preservation of, 20 

 Alchemists and the divining-rod, 385 

 Aldeburgh, amber to be bought 



there, 74 



the great pebble beach at, 55 

 Alpine flowers, 161 



reason of strong colour of, 167, 



168 

 Amber, 71-76 



chemical nature of, 75 

 insects in, 73 

 uses of, 73, 74 

 Amber-routes, 70 



Ambleteuse, once a great harbour, 51 

 Amphioxus, 2 

 Anchovy, the, 359 



sauce, its history and colour, 359 

 Anemone, the Weymouth, 88 

 Anemones, sea-, 81, 84, 85, 86 



fertilization of, 186 

 Anthea cereus, a sea- anemone, 86 

 Ape, the lines on the palm of the, 



373 



to man, from, 236-291 

 Apes, mental qualities of, 241, 242 

 Aquariums, marine, made fashionable 



by Mr. Gosse, 83 

 "Arabian Nights," stories as to men 



turned into fish, 353 

 Araucaria, the monkey-puzzle, 329 

 Arbor vitse, a kind of cypress, 330 

 Argentiere (Switzerland), 164 

 Aril of the yew tree, 310 

 Arthropods or jointed-leg owners, 



102, 103 

 Ashtaroth, 352 

 Astrology, 372 

 Atargatis, 352 

 Atlas cedar, 320 

 Augurs, the Roman corporation of, 



371 



Aurelia, the common jelly-fish, 95 



27 



j Australian natives, 29, 30 

 Automata, animals as, 187 



Balancers or dwindled wings of the 

 two- winged flies, 218 



Balanus, the sea-acorn or acorn- 

 barnacle, no 



Ballet, Russian Imperial, 169, 177 



Barnacle, growth and transformation 



of, 111-113 

 the legend of the, and the goose, 



118-141 

 the ship's, figure of, 109 



Barnacle-goose, the, 118 



Barnacles, 100, 108-141 

 nauplius young of, discovered by 

 the Army surgeon, Vaughan 

 Thompson, 107 



their " complemental males" dis- 

 covered by Darwin, 115 



Barrett, Sir W. F., on water-finders, 

 389. 390 



Beaches, constituents of, 53, 55-63 



Bee, the queen, retains the sperm of 

 one drone for four or five 

 years, 405 



Beit, Mr. Otto, 408 



Bernacse and bernak, Celtic word for 

 shell-fish, 121 



Beri-beri, a disease due to bad diet, 

 297 



Birds believed to be produced by 



trees, 118 

 their courtship, 298-300 



Birth-marks, belief in, similar to that 

 in magical power of water- 

 finders, 390 

 experiment by the patriarch Jacob, 



39i, 399 



Mr. Heape on, 398 

 Bivalve and univalve shells, 143 

 Bleeding of the nose, Latin hymn 



to arrest, 343 



Blood, amount of, in man's body, 348 

 coloured blue in scorpions, crus- 

 taceans, and molluscs, 346 

 colourless corpuscles of, 349 

 colourless, of lower animals, 346 



