INDEX 



419 



Correvon, M., his garden, 163 

 Corundum pebbles give flame-flash 



when rubbed together, 67 

 Courting dress of water-fleas, 205 

 Courtship, 180-215 



methods of, in man not inherited 



or instinctive, 21 1 

 Crabs, 98, 104, 105 

 Crane-fly, zibetseq. 

 Crawfish and crayfish, 99 

 Crustaceans, use of the word, 98 

 Cucujos, the, a phosphorescent beetle 



of South America, 234 

 Cupressus sempervirens, the common 



cypress, 330 

 Cyanaea, the stinging jelly-fish of our 



coast, 95 

 Cycads, an order allied to conifers, 



309 



Cypress tree, the, 330 



Cyprus and coffers, 330 

 and Crete, ancient vases from, 

 with pictures of transition from 

 barnacle to goose, 130, 133 ' 



Daddy-Long-Legs, 216 et seq. 



sometimes used as a name for the 



spider-like Opilio, 220 

 Dagon, the fish-god, 352 

 Dancing and science, 169 et seq. 

 of birds and spiders, 171 

 various kinds of, 172, 173, 177, 



178 



Daphne, the Alpine, 166 

 Darwin and Lord Morton's mare, 400 

 Dawson, Mr. Charles, discovers the 



missing link, 284 



Deodar, the Himalayan cedar, 320 

 Destruction of native animals in 



England, 15 



Dewar, Sir James, on suspended 

 animation of luminous bacteria, 

 158. 

 Diet, certain substances necessary to 



healthy, 294 

 Diptera or two-winged flies, divisions 



of, 222 

 Disharmonies in animal structure and 



habit, 227 



in man's structure, 228 

 Display in courtship, 197 et seq. 

 Divination, 371 



by the forked twig, 384 



by throwing a rod into the air, 383 



varieties of methods in, 371 



Divining-rod, the, 383 



Dormouse, easily loses the skin of its 



tail, 219 



Dousers and dousing, 385 

 dishonest variety of, 388 

 or water-finders tested by a com- 

 mittee, 392 

 some honest, 387 



Dragon, the heraldic, and the para- 

 chute lizard, 382 

 Dredge, the naturalist's, I 

 Duclaux, Professor, his advice as to 



diet, 299 

 Dunwich, a submerged city, 50 



Earth-worm, ccelom of the, 338 

 Educability, 213, 268-269 

 Elaterids, a family of beetles, 225 

 phosphorescent species of, 234 

 Emperor moth, attractive smell of 



female, 209 

 Eoanthropus Dawsoni, the Piltdown 



Hominid, 283 

 Erosion of the coast, 51 

 Euphausia, a phosphorescent shrimp, 



picture of, 154 



Evergreens, our native, list of, 312 

 Ewart, Prof. Cossar, his experiments 



on telegony, 400 

 Experience, learning by individual, 



212 



Expression by the face, greater in 



man than apes, 273 

 Eyes of deep-sea animals, 93 



Fabre, his opinion of animal intelli- 

 gence, 197, 198 



Fainting, men, at sight of blood, 345 



Fast days, 351, 352 



Felixstowe beach, 56 



erosion of the coast at, 50 



large piece of amber found at, 70 



Fertilization, 180 



Fir, Scots, 305, 321 

 Silver, or Abies pectinata, 315 

 used to build the Trojan horse, 306 



Fire-flies of Southern Europe, 233 



Firestones, 65 



Fish, a young, saves Manu from the 



Deluge, 353 



and Christian ornament, 356, 357 

 and fast days, 351 et seq. 

 as the symbol of Christ, 354 

 certain, poisonous to every one, 

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