INDEX 



423 



Stone-borers, shell-fish and worm, 



347-349 

 " Suspended animation," examples of, 



168, 169 

 Symbolism, legendary monsters in 



relation to, 125, 127 



Tadpoles, food of, 211, 212 



growth and development of, 210, 



211 



gigantic, 218 

 Tait, discoveries of, with regard to 



ozone, 252 

 Tapestry, Bayeux, representation of 



Halley's comet in, 231 

 Tertiaries, the, sand and clay deposits 



termed, 83 

 Thayer, Abbott, colour-protection 



and invisibility of animals as 



demonstrated by, 306-312 

 Throughton, use of spider's lines in 



telescopes introduced by, 



292 



Tissue, explanation of term, 174 

 Toads, English species, 216 



European species, various, 216-219 

 gigantic tadpoles of spur-heeled, 



216-218 



method of catching prey, 219 

 Tolstoi, Metchnikoffs meeting with, 



43.44 



"Toxin," conversion into "anti- 

 toxin," 102 

 Trees, English, derivation of various, 



57 



Tree-sparrows, 268 

 Trout, "natural selection" theory in 



relation to increased caution 



of, 269, 270 

 Troy, discovery of, by Schliemann, 



16 



Tubercle - bacillus, discovery by 



Koch, 240 

 Turkey-cock, native home and original 



introduction of, 358-359 

 various names given to, 359 

 Two on a Tower (Hardy), quotation 



from, 220 



Unicorn, heraldic, origin of, 127 

 Universities, extension and diffusion 



of science by, need for, 6, 



8,9 

 Oxford and Cambridge, reasons for 



inefficiency of, 10 

 Oxford and Cambridge, result of 



usurpation by wealthy 



classes, 9, 10 

 Upas-tree, Java, fabled effect of, 96 



"Vega," position of our sun and 

 planets with regard to star, 

 224, 225 



Village population, increasing de- 

 generacy of, 270, 278, 279 



Wallace, Alfred Russel, Darwinism 



by, 15, 1 6 (quotation) 

 friendly relations between Darwin 



and, 13, 37 

 theories of, 12-14, 2 ^ 

 Wood, protection against " worm " 

 and "mould," methods 

 advocated for, 354, 355 

 " worm-eaten," production of, 349 

 Wood-borers, animal, 346-347 

 death-watch beetle, 351-352 

 furniture beetle, 348-350 

 Worms, stone-boring, 347-349 

 Wyvern, heraldic, 116 



Yellow fever, 2-4 



