INDEX 



395 



Muscle-nerve preparation of Swam- 



merdam, 199. 

 Mussel, see Anodon and Mytilus. 

 Mytilus, Leeuwenhoek on, 211 ; 



Heide, 213. 



Natural history iu Middle Ages, 10. 

 Natural theology, 113. 

 Nearchus, 52. 



Nectaries discovered by Malpighi, 

 156 ; Linnaeus on, 324. 



Olaus Magnus, 58, 107. 



Opossum, 60. 



Ortus Sanitatis, 13. 



Oviedo, 60. 



Oyster, cilia of, 212 ; anatomy of, 237. 



Pallas, 75. 



Parts of the flower, 346. 



Pena, 32. 



Penny, 85. 



Perrault, Claude, 229 ; on feathers, 

 231. 



Peter Martyr Anglerius, 59. 



Peysonnel, 276. 



Physiologus, 7. 



Plants, English names of, 8 ; sexes of, 

 125, 171. 



Pliny, 5, 6, 27, 28, 52, 56 ; on silk, 

 96, 119, 1.36; on date-palm, 338; 

 on parts of the flower, 337 ; on 

 sexes of plants, 338. 



Pluche, Spectacle de la Nature, 236. 



Plumier, 32. 



Pollen, 337, 348 ; Valerius Cordus on, 

 28 ; Grew, 171, 172 n. 



Polyzoa, Hooke on, 142 ; Leeuwen- 

 hoek, 212 ; Roesel, 301. 



Poupart, 229-236. 



Priestley, 335. 



" Prolepsis " of Linnjeus, 325. 



Protozoa, Hooke on, 140 ; Leeuwen- 

 hoek and Roesel, 216. 



Proverbs, Kay on, 128. 



Ptolemies, 52. 



Puss 'moth, investigation of, 303. 



Eamond, 35. 



Eanuneulaoese, A. L. de Jussieu on, 



353. 

 Ray, 37, 46, 75, 77, 99 ; on androgyny 



of snails, 118; on sexuality of, 



plants, 125 ; on species, 125. 

 " Ray's Travels," 128. 

 Reaumur, 230, 244, 278, 281, 285, 



286 ; on Puss moth, 304. 

 Redi, 225. 



Reftelius quoted, 38. 

 Reverse planting, 218. 

 Revival of learning, 9. 



Revival of botany, 12. 



and zoology in England, 76. 



Rhineland, 15. 



Rivinus, 122, 123, 319. 



Roesel vonRosenhof on Amceba, 216, 



302. 

 RoUiu on natural history for young 



persons, 236. 

 Rondelet, 28, 30, 45, 112. 

 Roth's life of Brunfels, 17 ; of Bock, 



20. 

 Rotifers, Leeuwenhoek on, 214. 

 Ruel, 14, 18. 



Salviani, 47. 



Sap of trees, Ray and Willughby's 

 experiments on, 119; Malpighi's, 

 120. 



Scale of Creation, 290, 371. 



Scale-insect of orange-tree, 236 ; 

 Frisoh and Breyn on male insect, 

 244. 



Schott of Strasburg, 17. 



Science in Middle Ages, 10. 



Sensitive plant, 73, 144. 



Serres, 0. de, 93. 



Sexes of plants, 125, 171 ; views of 

 the ancients, 337-8, of Malpighi, 

 Millington, Grew and Ray, 338 ; 

 experiments of Camerarius, 339 ; 

 Morland, 341 ; Geoffrey and Brad- 

 ley, 342 ; Vaillant, 343 ; A. P. de 

 CandoUe, Amici and Robert Brown, 

 345 ; Kolreuter, 349 ; Sprengel, 

 Darwin and H. Miiller, 350. 



Sexual system of Linnaeus, 325, 331. 



Silk, Pliny on, 96 ; 0. de Serres on, 

 97 ; Reaumur on, 256. 



— of spiders, Reaumur on, 247. 

 Silkworm, 53, 96 ; Malpighi on 



anatomy of, 160. 

 Slabber on Sagitta, nauplii and 



Nootiluca, 303. 

 Sloth, 61. 

 Snail, androgyny of, 118. 



— Swammerdam on, 194. 

 Sorbonne, the, 367. 

 Species, Ray on, 125. 



— , origin of, Linnaeus on, 332 ; Buftbn 

 on, 375. 



Sperm-whale, 73. 



Spermatozoa, Hamm and Leeuwen- 

 hoek on, 204. 



Spiders, Leeuwenhoek on, 209 ; Lister 

 on, 132. 



Sprengel on cross -fertilisation of 

 flowers, 340. 



Stamens, function of, 171, 172n. ; see 

 also Sexes of plants. 



Steno or Stensen, 174, 176, 179, 

 199 n. 



