420 



DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST 



Fish, modelled in gold, life size, dug 

 up near the Black Sea, 353 

 poisons, 357, 358 

 some, poisonous only to certain 



individuals, 358 

 worship of, and the fish-god, 352 

 Fish-worship of the ancient Greek 



Orpheists, 355 

 Flame, flash of, produced under 

 water, 66 

 produced by rubbing two quartz ; 

 pebbles together, 65 

 Flame-seeking insects, 229, 230 

 Flies, two-winged, or Diptera which 

 are phosphorescent, 234 

 various kinds of, 222, 223 

 Fly as dirt carrier, 300 

 Food, constituents of, 292 

 Foot of man and his upright carriage, 



243 



Foot-jaws of crab and lobster, 104 



Forbes, Edward, a sketch by, 159 



Fowl, the common, 43 



France gained courage and self- 

 respect through Pasteur, 415 



French cookery, sham, in Switzerland, 

 165 



Fresh-water jelly-fish, 91, 92 



Fridays and fish-eating, by Jews as 

 well as Christians, 352 



Frog, blue variety of the edible, 163 



Futurists, 23 



Galliformes, an order of birds, 43 _ 



Geese, drawings of, by ancient 

 Mykensean artists, modified to 

 resemble barnacles, 133, 134 



Gelinotte, 46 



Geology and living toads in rocks, 



379 



Geomancy, 372 



Gerard the herbalist on the trans- 

 formation of ship's barnacles 

 into geese, 121 



Giard, Professor ; discovery of a 

 phosphorescent disease in 

 sand-hoppers, by him, 156 



Gingko tree of Japan, 309 



Giraldus Cambrensis and the pro- 

 duction of geese from timber, 

 120 



Glass-like marine animals, 92 



Glow-worms, 233 



Goose-tree, the, as drawn by Gerard 

 in 1597, 123 



Gopher tree of the Bible, 330 

 Gosse, Mr. Philip Henry, 83 

 Greek dancing, 175, 176 



name-gods or totems, 356 

 Grouse, black, red, and others, 45 



the, and allied birds, 41 

 Gummi-horn, the, 160 



Haema, the red part of blood, 339, 



347 



Haemoglobin, or blood-red, 347 

 in the blood of the larva of the 

 big black midge (Chironomus), 

 223 

 in Bonellia, 1 1 

 in the coiled pond-snail, 346 



Haemolymph, the proper name for 

 vertebrate blood, 339, 346 



Hallucination and self-hypnotism, 372 



Hamingia, a green worm, io-u 



Hamlet and superstition, 361 



Hampstead Heath, 16 



Hands and feet, size and shape of, 

 as indicating character, 375 



Hardanger Fiord, 3 



Haruscipation, 372 



Heart-urchin, 80 



Henslow, of Cambridge, 59 



Hierapolis, where Atargatis was 

 worshipped, 352 



Hopkins, Mr. Gowland, his experi- 

 ments on diet, 294 



Hotel du Planet, good food at, 164 



House sparrow trained to be a 

 songster, 207 



Houssay, M. Frederic, his discovery 

 of the origin of the goose and 

 barnacle story in paintings on 

 Mykenaean vases, 131 et seq. 



Huxley and Cuvier on the distinctive 

 quality of man, 272 

 and Owen, their controversy, 236 



Hybridization, infection of plants by, 



403 

 Hydra tuba breaks up into jelly-fish, 



97 



Idiosyncrasy as to poisonous quality 



offish, 358 

 Infant, crying of the human, a 



speciality, 272 

 Infantile diarrhoea, 300 

 Inflammation, nature of, 349 

 Insects, many guided by the sense 



of smell, 209 



