INDEX. 



187 



Luminous organs of fishes, 98. 



paint, 157. 



showers, 144. 



Lyell, Sir Charles, on cosmic dust, 152. 



Mackerel, luminosity of, 104. 

 Marigold, luminosity of, 121. 

 Martyr, Peter, on luminous insects, 



62. 



Meat, phosphorescent, 141. 

 Medusce, or jelly-fish, 10-18. 



numbers, 11. 



light-givers, 11. 



Professor A. Agassiz on, 12. 



brilliance, 14. 



Darwin on, 17. 



Spallanzani on their phospho- 

 rescence, 17. 



Humboldt on, 18. 

 Menhaden, luminosity of, 103. 

 Merian, Madame, on the luminosity 



of Fulrjora lanternaria, 66. 

 Meteors of the sea, 10. 

 Monkey, luminosity of eyes of, 114. 

 Moonfish, 105. 



Mount Blanc, luminous cap of, 146. 

 Mushrooms, edible, 138. 

 Mussel Bay, luminous snow, 74. 



Nasturtium, luminosity of, 121. 



Noctiluca, 4-9. 



Nordenskjold discovers cosmic dust, 



148. 



Oban, sea-pens at, 26. 

 Ogunquit, Me., sunfish at, 104. 

 Ooze, 3. 

 Ovideo on luminous insects, 62. 



Phantoms, 140. 



Pholas, 40. 



Phosphorescence of the sea, 6-9. 



the secret of, 41. 



of Pyrosoma, 81. 



Phosphorescence, its uses, 160. 

 Pliny, on the luminosity of Pholas, 



41. 



Polyps, their phosphorescence, 24. 

 Poppy, luminosity of, 121, 123. 

 Pteropods, 42. 

 Pyrosoma, 81 et seq. 

 Rotifers, 36. 



San Gabriel Valley, beetles in, 48. 



Sea-anemones, 20. 



Sea fans and plumes, 24. 



Sea-opossum, 75. 



Sea-pen, 26-28. 



Sea-slugs, luminous, 44. 



Sea-urchins, 29. 



Seas of flame, 86 et seq. 



Serapis, Temple of, 40. 



Shark, luminous, 99 et 



Slugs, garden, 45. 



Spiders of the sea, luminous, 76. 



Squid, 46. 



Star-fish, 29-32. 



Sugar, flashes of light from, 155. 



Sunfish, 104. 



Toadstools, luminous, 136. 

 Touchwood, or fox-fire, 131. 

 Trepang, 29. 



Tulasue, M., on luminous fungus, 

 134. 



Venus' s girdle, 15. 

 Verbenas, luminosity of, 122. 



Water-fleas, 72. 

 Water-spouts, luminous, 127. 

 Whales, supposed phosphorescence 



of, 106. 

 Worms, marine, 35. 



phosphorescent, 36-39. 

 Worrall, Mr. Isaac W., on luminosity 



of crane, 109. 



