INDEX 



" Accedens of Armory," 232. 

 " Albumazar," 307. 

 *' Alchemist/' 307. 

 Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 254. 

 Allman, Professor, 157, 169, 



180. 



Annelida, 256. 

 Anobium paniceum, 35 ; A. 



Striatum, 35. 



Anopheles maeulipenns, 25, 28. 

 Anoplura, 10. 

 Apis mellifica (honey-bee), 37, 



70, 73, 80, 82, 83, 259. 

 Appendicularia, 113. 

 Ariosto, 322. 

 Ashmole, E., 256. 

 Atlantic Ocean, depth of, 



96, 174. 



Auchmeromyia luttola, 28. 

 Aulostoma, 256. 



Bacillus coli, 191, 215, 217. 

 Bacon, Francis, 269, 270. 

 Bacon, Roger, 226. 

 Bain, on Hate, 314, 315. 

 Baird, on Grouse tape- worms, 



203. 



Balaena, 115. 



Banks, Sir Joseph, 292 note. 

 Bartholomaeus Anglicus, 225. 

 Bell, Sir Charles, 326. 



Benthos, 113, 120. 



Blue-bottle, 28. 



Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries, 151, 158, 159, 

 164. 



Bombus (humble-bee), 68, 69, 

 80, 83 B. terrestris, 71, 

 78, 80, 83 ; B. lapidarius, 

 71, 72, 78, 79; B. 

 lucorum, 78. 



Boyle, Robert, 301, 302. 



Brandt, Professor, 140, 154. 



Brocke, Ten B., 255. 



Brown, Cram, 180. 



Browne, Dr. Crichton, 322. 



Browne, Sir Thomas, 282. 



British Association, 121. 



Bruce, 96. 



Bubonic plague, 20, 21, 306. 



" Bulldog," H.M.S., 168. 



Burton, Robert (quoted), 283. 



Butler, Samuel, 307. 



Cannon, Professor, on Hate, 



328, 329, 331. 

 Carducci (quoted), 312. 

 Caird, J., 128. 

 Caius, John, 229, 236, 255. 

 Calzolari, F., 255. 

 Carder bees, 73. 

 Cavendish's thermometer, 167. 



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