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INDEX 



Tadpoles of the sea, strange history 



of the, 276 



Teeth of man, 162, 166 

 of the pig (figure), 140 

 typical, 138, 139 

 Tetrabelodon, 143, 144 

 Ticks living on African natives, 



332 



Tiger, skull of (figure), 160, 161 

 Toad, jewel in its head, 85 

 Toad-stones, 88, 89, 90 

 Toleration of poisonous drugs, 350 

 Totensee, 28 

 Trout, 2 

 Tuatara, the, a New Zealand lizard, 



358 

 Turtles, the green, of turtle soup 



now being brutally exter- 

 minated, 379 

 Typhoid carriers, 343 

 Typhus causes deaths of Russian 



medical officers, 337 

 fever, 330, 334, 335 



discovery of the mode of its 



dissemination, 335, 336 



Vaccination, 349 

 Veddas of Ceylon, 205, 231 

 Vegetarians and their teeth, 159 

 Vernet Carl, his picture of a horse, 



57 

 Virgil on mares fertilised by the 



wind, 228 



Virgin reproduction, 221 

 Vital principle, a, 392 

 Vitality and aquosity, 392, 393, 



394 



Wasp-like waists of prehistoric 

 figures of women, 250 



Water and the aqueous principle, 



394 



the strange and peculiar pro- 

 perties of, 393 



Water-lily, the common, 112 

 Week, days of the, 259 



Greek, of ten days, 259 

 Weymouth pine, 23 

 Whalebone whales, nearly extinct, 



Whales, annual slaughter of, 377, 



378. 

 extermination of, by man, 375- 



378 



food of, 386 



the problem as to the effect of 

 pressure on the diving 

 whale, 383 

 toothed, 384, 385 

 value of the whale fisheries, 377 

 Why are we here ? No answer to 



this question, 399 

 Wind supposed to fertilise mares, 



228 



Winter-green, 20 



Wissman, von, on English grilled 



meat and London stout, 182 



Wolf, when destroyed in Britain, 



367 

 Women drawn on a rock-shelter at 



Lerida, Spain, 249 

 Wood-sorrel, the shamrock, 271 

 Wouwerman, his representation of 



moving wheels, 66 



Year, length of, 259 

 Yellow fever and mosquitoes, 332 

 Yorkshire pudding, improperly pre- 

 pared, 178 



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