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INDEX. 



Generation, gemmation identical with, 

 308 — a mere form of growth, 309. 



Germ cells and sperm cells, assumed 

 necessity of both to seed, 309 — re- 

 production by union of, 316. 



Giant's Castle, Scilly, 1<J0, 191. 



Gills, difference between the, in Fishes 

 and Molluscs, 338. 



Ghuss jars, suitable, for Anemones, &c., 

 32. 



Goethe's law of animal development, 

 1.58— his love of Anatomy, &c.,274 — 

 on growth and reproduction as iden- 

 tical, 313. 



Goniaster, the, 240. 



Gorey, village of, Jereey, 272. 



Gosse, Mr, his collecting basket, 12 — 

 on the sea, 26 — his Marine Zoology, 

 34 — on the Pholas, 87 — the works of, 

 119 — on the edibility of tlie Anemo- 

 nes, 140 — identitj' of his orange- 

 disked and orange-tentacled Ane- 

 mones, 142 — new genus " Siigartia" 

 proposed by, 150 — on the Nymphon, 

 202 — on the Corkscrew Coralline, 367. 



Granite, predominance of, in the Scilly 

 Isles, 227. 



Granitic rocks, the, at the Scilly Isles, 

 201. 



Granular nerves, previous observations 

 on, 382. 



Greeks, their love of the sea, 198. 



Growth, reproduction only a form of, 

 313 e( seq. 



Gj-mnetrus, the, 24. 



Haime, M. Jules, memoir on the Ceri- 

 anthus by, 1 64. 



Hand, formation of the, 1;")9. 



Harvey, his ajihorism as to reproduc- 

 tion modified, 281. 



Han-ey, Dr Alexander, on generation, 

 308, 309. 



Hearing, the so-called, of Molluscs, 354 

 et se/j. 



Helianthoid Zoophytes, reproduction 

 in the, 171. 



Hermit crab, habits, &c. of the, 46 et 

 sei/. — Swammerdamm on the, 243. 



Hills, peculiarities of the, at llfra- 

 combe, 5 — effects of, on works of 

 man, 30. 



Hippopotiimus, the, 115, 116. 



Ilollard, M., memoirs of, on the Ane- 

 mones, 119 — anatomy of the Actinia 

 by, 156 — the ovaries of the Actiniie 

 described liy, 161 7iole, 162, 166 — on 

 the supposed solvent fluid of the 



Actinise, 215 —on the convoluted 

 bands, 262. 



Homer on the sea, 200, 269. 



Huxley, Professor, cla.ssification of the 

 Sagitta by, 250 — obsei-vations on it, 

 252 — on Parthenogenesis, 287 — on 

 the gonei-ation of Aphides, 298. 



Hydra, alleged paralysing power of the, 

 1 35 — its organisation, 157 — reproduc- 

 tion in it, 170 — digestion in it, 218 

 note — Trenibley on its rei^roduction, 

 282 — peculiarities of reproduction in 

 it, 310— its so-called muscles, 389. 



Hydra tuba, )-eproduction in the, 170. 



Hydractinia, the, 275. 



Hvdroid Polypes, reproduction in the, 

 170. 



Ilfracombe, scenery of, 5 — the town, 6 

 — a daj^'s marine hunting at, 15 — 

 the visitors to, 28 — the Capstone 

 Parade at, 30 — a ramble near, and 

 its scenery, 73— lanes, 74. 



Iinj>lemcnts, the re(]uisite, for marine- 

 animal collecting, 1 1 . 



Incubating fish, an, 237. 



Infusoria, digestion in the, 217. 



Ingenhouss, di-scoveiy of the influence 

 of sunlight on plants b}-, 232. 



Inman, Dr,on insensibility to pain in the 

 lower animals, 334 — on the nervous 

 system of the Dcndronotus, 375 note. 



Insects, Parthenogenesis among, 291 — 

 signs of insensibility given by, 331 — 

 peculiarities of nervous tis.sue in, 386. 



Invertcbrata, position of the retina in, 

 360. 



Jklly-fish, preference of, for light, 21 

 — the thread capsules in the, 146, 148 

 — production of, by Polypes, 280,281. 



Jersey, first impression of, 268 — charac- 

 ter of its scenery, 269 — boyish remi- 

 niscences of it, 270 et seq. 



Johnston's Bntish Zoophytes, 34, 119 

 — on the voracity of the Actinia 

 cra-ssicornis, 127. 



Jones, Rymer, his Animal Kingdom, 

 33 — on the study of marine animals, 

 61 — on the animal nature of the Ane- 

 mone, 1 22 — on their j)owei-s of motion, 

 125 — on the seizing power of the 

 Anemones, 131. 



KiRKES and Paget on nerve fibre, 377 



note. 

 Knowledge, the food of the mind, 219. 

 KoUiker on the colour-specs of the Lo- 



