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DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST 



Blood, duties of the, 349, 350 

 emotion and excitement caused by 



sight of, 345 

 fascination of, distinguished from 



cruelty, 344 

 of the grub of the midge and of 



the coiled pond-snail, coloured 



red by haemoglobin, 346 

 red corpuscles of, 347 

 superstitions about, 342, 343 

 the, and its circulation, 343 et seq. 

 the only case of an insect with red, 



223, 346 

 used as an adhesive by Australians, 



343 



Blood-stream, its pace in man, 348 

 Blood-vessels, swollen, of molluscs, 



Crustacea, and insects, 340 

 Bournemouth, various pine trees at, 



324 



Bower-bird, its play-run, 196 



Brain of apes and man, 253 et seq. 

 increase of its size means increase 



of educability, 268 

 significance of its greater size in 



man than apes, 257-261 

 small brains of extinct animals, 259 



Brent-geese and tree-geese, 122 



Bristle-worms, 79 



Browne, Sir Thomas, and the spon- 

 taneous generation of mice, 125 



Bruno, St., his lily, 165 



Bummaloh, or Bombay duck, 359 



Bunodes crassicornis, a sea-anemone, 

 85,86 



Bustard, the courting of the, 199 



Buttercup, the white, 165 



Cable, author of " Old Creole Days," 



Canard and cock-and-bull stories, 119 

 Canine tooth of the Piltdown jaw, 



discovery of the, 287 

 Capercailzie, the, 44 

 Carnelians on the Felixstowe beach, 58 

 Cedars, 319 

 Cement stones, 58 

 Charles II and the globe of fish, 



406 



Chartreuse, the Grande, 163 

 Chesil beach, the, 61 

 Chin, the bony, of man, peculiar to 



him, 250 



Christmas trees, 302 

 Chyle, the, 333 



Circulation, the, of the blood, 348 

 Cirripedes, the order comprising 



barnacles, 114 



Click-beetles, the adults of wire- 

 worms, 225 

 Cockle, the common, 146 



jumping powers of the, 150 

 Coelom, the lymph-holding body 



cavity, 338 



Colours of marine animals, 93 

 Cone of the Douglas fir (figure), 327 

 of the Larch (figure), 319 

 of the Monterey Pine, or Pinus 



insignis (figure), 325 

 of the Pinaster (figure), 323 

 of the Prickly pine, Pinus muricata 



(figure), 326 

 (male and female) of the Scots fir 



(figure), 305 

 (female) of the Silver fir (figure), 



3i6 

 (female) of the Spruce or Christmas 



tree (figure), 318 

 (modified) of the Yew tree (figure), 



310 



Cones, globular, of cypress, 330 

 of juniper, 308, 331 

 of firs and pine trees, 303 

 Coniferse, survey of, 313 

 tabular statement of their families, 



sections, and genera, 331 

 Conifers, the three commonest in 



England, 308 

 Conjugation in lower forms of life, 



183 



Conjurers still believed by some to 

 conjure spirits and deal in the 

 black art, 365 

 Connective tissue, 335 

 Conscious and unconscious minds, 



262-263 



Consciousness, arrival of, 213 

 Contagious magic and fish-eating, 354 

 Copal gum, similar to amber, 73 

 Copalite found at Highgate, 76 

 Coprolite on the Suffolk shore, 59 

 Coral, white, 3, 9 

 Corals related to sea-anemones, 89 

 Corethra, the plume fly, its trans- 

 parent larva, 27, 224 

 Corpus Christi, festival of, and danc- 

 ing, 174 

 Corpuscles, colourless, of the blood, 



349 

 red, of the blood, 347 



