INDEX. 



jEroscope, 155. 

 Agaric, luminous, 135, et seq. 

 Agassiz, Mrs., on jelly-fish, 11. 

 Louis, 19. 



Baird, William, on Chinese fire-flies, 



68. 



Baird, Professor S. F., 94. 

 Balmain's luminous paint, 164. 

 Banks, Sir Joseph, on luminous crabs, 



75. 

 Beetles, 47. 



cannonading, 48. 

 odorous, 48. 

 flesh-eating, 48. 

 grave-digging, 49. 

 Scarabceus, 49. 

 lightning-bugs, 49. 



Bellot, Lieut., on luminous crusta- 

 ceans, 73. 

 Bennett, D. F., on luminous shark, 



100. 

 Berkeley, Rev. J. M., on fox-fire, 



131. 



Black swallower, 97. 

 Blind fishes, 92. 

 "Blood-rains," 153. 

 Bombay duck, 93. 

 Boon Island, sea-jellies at, 10. 

 Boring-shells, 40. 

 Branner, John C., on lantern-fly, 



67. 

 Burning bush, legends of, 129. 



Canton's phosphorus, 156. 

 Centipedes, 69. 

 Chalk Cliff, Dover, 3. 

 " Challenger," exploring-ship, 24, 31. 

 China, luminous insects in, 65. 

 Chinese luminous paint, 164. 

 Coal-mines, luminosity in, 133. 

 Collingwood, Dr. Cuthbert, on lumi- 

 nous fungus, 134. 

 Corals, 21. 



Col. Pike on their phosphores- 

 cence, 21. 

 Cosmic dust, 148 et seq. 



composition of, 149. 

 Crabs, luminous, 72 et seq. 

 Cranes, phosphorescence of, 109. 

 Crustaceans, luminous, 72. 



Lieut. Bellot on, 73. 



Nordenskiold on, 73. 

 Cuttle-fishes, 46. 

 Cyclops, 73. 



Darwin on phosphorescence of Me- 



dusce, 17. 



on earth-worms, 34. 



on lightning-bugs of South 



America, 57. 



on dust-showers, 152. 



Deep sea, fishes of, 91 et seq. 

 Deep-sea shrimps, brilliant colors, 79. 

 Deep-sea dredging, 93. 

 Dejean, Gen., story of, 47. 

 Diatoms, luminous, 128 et seq. 



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