CONTENTS ix 



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XVII. PRIMITIVE BELIEFS ABOUT FATHERLESS PROGENY 221 



Harvey and Milton Reproduction by Budding Stories 

 of Virgin Births Spiritual Theory of Conception. 



XVIII. THE PYGMY RACES OF MEN ' 230 



Characteristics of Pygmies Colour of the Skin 

 Egyptian Stories of Pygmies Congo and New 

 Guinea Pygmies The Causes of Small Size Small- 

 ness a Correlation. 



XIX. PREHISTORIC PETTICOATS . . . . . 244 



Early Carvings and Pictures Paintings in Caverns 

 Painting of Human Figures Artistic Sympathy 

 Aurignacians and Bushmen Allied. 



XX. NEW YEAR'S DAY AND THE CALENDAR . . .256 



Make-believe and New Year Divisions of Time The 

 Difficulties of the Calendar Pope Gregory's Ten 

 Days The Astronomer Royal and the Shah. 



XXI. EASTERTIDE, SHAMROCKS AND SPERMACETI . . 267 



The Real Shamrock Sham Shamrock Leonardo or 

 Lucas ? Various Fats. 



XXII. THE STRANGE HISTORY OF THE TADPOLES OF 



THE SEA . . 276 



Sea-squirts The Anatomy of a Sea-squirt The Sea- 

 squirt's Coat The Sea-squirt's Young Gill-slits 

 Structure of the Sea-squirt's Tadpole Fixation of 

 the Sea-squirt's Tadpole The Frog's Tadpole 

 Simplification with Specialisation Mites as Deca- 

 dent Spiders Composite Sea-squirts Phosphores- 

 cent Colonies The Organs of Phosphorescence 

 Solitary Salps and Chain-salps Tell-tale Young 

 Stages The Peacock's Train Simplification of 

 Train-feathers. 



XXIII. MUSEUMS . . . 310 



The Muses The Museum of Alexandria Picture Gal- 

 leries and Museums The Purposes of Museums 

 The First Business of Museums National Value of 

 Museums University Museums Not for Children 

 but for Adults Screens and Electric Lifts Frames 

 and Setting of Pictures. 



XXIV. THE SECRET OF A TERRIBLE DISEASE . . 330 



The Angel of Death The Tyranny of Parasites 

 Typhus and Monkeys Typhus Fever in Russia. 



