406 



INDEX 



Biscay whale, the, 376 

 Bison very nearly extinct both in 

 America and Europe, 367, 



373 

 Blood, the wonderful properties of, 



35i 



Blood-parasites, 340 



Blood-red worm of the Thames 

 mud-banks, 368 



Bode, Dr., and the Bond Street bust, 

 272 



Boldini, modern painter, similarity 

 of his drawing to that of 

 prehistoric Cretans, 250 



Borromeo isles, 23 



Botryllus, 297 

 figure of, 281 



British Museum Act of 1753, 318 



Browne, Sir Thomas, on the breed- 

 ing of animals from rotten 

 wood, 223 



Budding, reproduction by, 222 



Buns, hot cross, 268 



Burbot, 3 



Butler, Mr. Samuel, on the larger 

 mammalia, 1 19 



Cachalot, cruise of the, 273 

 Cagots, an accursed race in France, 



242 



Cagul, caverns of, 248 

 Calendar, the, 257 

 the Chinese, 264 



Caloric, an exploded explanation, 398 

 Caprifigs, 103 

 Carnivorous animals and their teeth, 



161 



Carriers of disease, 339 

 Carthage, coin from, showing ele- 

 phant, 121 

 Carvings and pictures by cave-men, 



245 



Catalonia, rock drawings in, 248 

 Caverns, decorated prehistoric, 246 

 Cetyl, present in the fat of the sperm- 

 whale's head, 274 



Chemotaxis, as guiding the sperma- 

 tozoa of ferns, 109 

 Childhood of man, the, 403 

 Chimpanzee and typhus fever, 336 



its laughter, 207 



Chinese pictureof gallopinghorse, 59 

 Cholera carriers, 343 



Christmas Island, ravaged by phos- 

 phate merchants, 369 

 Cinematograph described, 53 

 Clavelina, 296 

 Cleanliness, need for, 345 

 Clock, pendulum of, how seen, 67 

 Clover, Dutch, a false shamrock, 271 



not successfully introduced into 

 New Zealand until bees 

 were also introduced, 363 

 Colour of flowers due to insects, 118 



of ice and of liquid oxygen, 47 

 Combination of instantaneous pic- 

 tures, 70 

 Conception by intervention of spirits, 



228 



Congo pygmies, 230 

 Contortions of rock-strata, 8, 9 

 Convention in art, 84 

 Cookery, sham French, 179 



neglected by English women, 181 



wholesale, 177 

 Cooking and food, 165, 170 

 Correlation, small size as an instance 



of, 243 



Crapaudina (toad-stone), 91 

 Crayfish, stone in, 93 

 Cretan female acrobats, 253 

 Crete, ancient frescoes from, 250 

 Cycad, 106, 1 14 



Darwin's theory, 391 



Date-palm, fertilisation of, 103 



Degeneration a chapter in Dar- 

 winism, 400 

 and simplification, 293 

 not a true retrogression, 306 



Dents du Midi, 16, 22 



Derby, Epsom (figure), 57 



Deserts made by man, 370 



Diarrhoea of infants carried by house- 

 flies, 344, 345 _ 



Diet, vegetarian, carnivorous and 

 mixed, 163 



Disease, carriers of, 339 



Dog, galloping (figure), 57 



Easter eggs, 268 

 Eastertide, 267 

 Eastra and Pascha, 267 

 Echites, the viper stone, 93 

 Edelweiss, 5, 6 



Egg-pits on fern's prothallus (figures), 

 104, 105 



