410 



INDEX 



Opsonising microbes, 355, 356 



Oran, in North Africa, rock draw- 

 ings at, 218 



Orca gladiator, the killer, a terrible 

 hunting whale, 385 



Origin of the soul, treated by 

 St. Augustine, 402 



Osmunda, royal fern, no 

 figure of, 1 1 1 



Owen, Sir Richard, his smile, 212 



Ox, the great wild, of Europe last 

 seen in 1627, 367 



Oxygen, liquid, colour of, 47 



Paces and poses of wild animals, 72 



Palaeomastodon, 145, 146 



Papuans, 232 



Paris, herb, 21 



Parmaceti of Shakespear, 272 



Parthenogenesis, 213-229 



Parthenon, horse from (figure), 59 



Pavloff on digestion, 175 



Peacocks, train feathers of, as ex- 

 amples of both progressive 

 and degenerative develop- 

 ment, 307, 308, 309 



Pediculus vestimenti, 331 



Pelorus Jack, a friendly whale, 380 



Penck, Professor, on date of the 

 glacial period, 43 



Petticoat with five flounces on a pre- 

 historic Cretan statuette, 

 252 



Petticoats, prehistoric, 244 



Pfeffer's discovery, 108 



Phagocytes and chemotaxis, 109 

 the devourers of disease germs, 

 348 



Photography, instantaneous, value 

 of, 75 



Physiologus, the Byzantine cyclo- 

 pedia, 87 



Picture galleries must not be too 

 large, 326 ^ 



Pictures and specimens, reserved 

 and exhibited collections, 

 326 

 prehistoric, of human beings, 249 



Pine-cone, diagram of, 1 1 1 



Pinkus, Dr., on spermaceti in Dr. 

 Bode's bust, 273 



Pinus strobus, 23 



Plants exterminated by man, 369 



Pliny on toadstone, 92 



Poa alpina, 20 



Poison- producing parasites, 341 



Poisoning of rivers by civilised man, 



368 



Pollen carried by wind, 113, 114 

 Polypody fern, spore-cases of (figure), 



96 



Prancing, 61 



Prehistoric petticoats, 244 

 Primitive man and the belief in 



spirits, demons and ghosts, 



397 



Prothallus from spore of fern, 100,101 

 Protozoa contrasted with bacteria as 



disease germs, 340 

 Pygmies of the Nile on a Greek vase 



/figure), 235 

 the Mincopies, Akkas, Bushmen, 



^Etas and Samangs, 230 

 Pygmy hogs, deer, buffaloes, 240 

 races, advantages of, 241 

 races of man, 230 



regarded as pathological, 242 

 why do they exist ?, 239 

 Pyrola, 20 



Pyrosorha a phosphorescent com- 

 pound Ascidian, 299-301 

 Pyrrhus and his elephants, 133 



Quartz, smell given out by, 192 



Races, pygmy, 230 



Rat, the Coypu, skull and jaw of, 152, 



153 



Rat-toothed animals, 156 



Records, to keep, is first duty of a 

 national museum, 320 



Redi, his experiments on the pro- 

 duction of maggots, 223 



Re-gelation, 31, 33 



Reinach on galloping horse, 60, 61 

 on Joan of Arc's laughter before 

 the stake, 210 



Reindeer men, 245 



Reproduction without fertilisation of 

 the egg, 221 



Retina, impression on the, 53 



Rhone glacier, 25, 27 



Rivers poisoned by man, 368 



Roasting of meat, decline of, 177 



Robin redbreast disliked by the 

 New Zealand colonists, 364 



