424 



DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST 



Seashore as nature-reserve, 24 



constituents of, 48, 55 

 Sea-worms, 78, 79 

 Seeds, winged, of fir trees, 317 

 Sequoia, the Big-tree and the Red- 

 wood, 329 

 Shakespear and barnacles, 120 

 Shells of molluscs, 142 

 Singing competitions of male birds, 



207 

 Skeleton of apes and man, 245 et seq. 

 Skull and jaw found at Piltdown, 



277, 290 

 Smell, the sense of, in man and 



animals, 208, 209 

 Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian 



Institute, 409 

 Snail, pond-, with red blood, 346 

 Soap- wort, 167 

 Soho, old house in, 14 

 Song, the beginnings of, in man, 208 

 Sounds as attractions in courtship, 



206 

 Space, extreme cold of, not fatal to 



life, 159 

 Spencer, Professor Baldwin, shows 



bioscope pictures of Australian 



natives, 30 

 Sperms and ovules, 181 

 Spider's courtship and dance, 201 

 Sprats fraudulently sold as Anchovies 



and as Sardines, 360 

 Spruce introduced to Britain by man, 



307 

 or Norway pine, 306, 317 

 Stickleback's nest and courtship, 



200, 201 

 Stordo (Lervik), 3 

 Strieker of Vienna, the microscopist, 



336 

 Succinite, correct name for amber, 75 

 Survival value of colour in flowers, 



168 

 Switzerland, 160 et seq. 

 Synapta, and anchors in its skin, 80 



Tail of man, a disharmony, 228 

 Talitrus, a sand-hopper, 153 

 Taxodinse, a group of fir trees, 329 

 Teeth of apes and of man, 248, 249 

 of extinct animals on the seashore, 



59 

 wisdom, as disharmonies, 228 

 Telegony described, 399 

 Tetraonidse, the grouse family, 44 

 Thoracic duct, the, 334 

 Thumb of apes and of man compared, 



243 

 Thuya, the Arbor vitae, 330 

 Tipula oleracea, the Crane-fly or 



Daddy-Long-Legs, 216 et seq. 

 Toads found living in stone, 376 



et seq. 

 Topiary and yew trees, 3 1 2 

 Troy, discovery of ancient, 406 

 Tsetse fly, 22 

 Tyndal, the late Professor, 67 



Vitamine from outer coat of rice- 

 grain, 298 

 Volvox animalcule, 183, 184 



Water-finder, impostor exposed, 392, 



393 



Water-finders, 387, 390 

 Water-finding, theories of, 388, 389 

 Weald of Sussex, 289 

 Wellingtonia, the American Big- tree, 



329 

 Whittington and his cat, origin of 



the legend, 139 

 Wickham Fen, 18 

 Willey, Dr., on the lancelet, 3 

 Winter-green, 167 

 Wire-worms, true and false, 221 

 Woman in civilized races, not man, 



seeks to captivate by display, 



Yew, the Irish, 311, 312 

 trees, 310, 311, 312 



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