INDEX 



419 



Correvon, M., his garden, 163 

 Corundum pebbles give flame-flash 



when rubbed together, 67 

 Courting dress of water-fleas, 205 

 Courtship, 180-215 

 methods of, in man not inherited 



or instinctive, 211 

 Crabs, 98, 104, 105 

 Crane-fly, 216 et seq. 

 Crawfish and crayfish, 99 

 Crustaceans, use of the word, 98 

 Cucujos, the, a phosphorescent beetle 



of South America, 234 

 Cupressus sempervirens, the common 



cypress, 330 

 Cyanaea, the stinging jelly-fish of our 



coast, 95 

 Cycads, an order allied to conifers, 



309 



Cypress tree, the, 330 



Cyprus and coffers, 330 

 and Crete, ancient vases from, 

 with pictures of transition from 

 barnacle to goose, 130, 133 



Daddy-Long-Legs, 216 et seq. 



sometimes used as a name for the 



spider-like Opilio, 220 

 Dagon, the fish-god, 352 

 Dancing and science, 169 et seq. 

 of birds and spiders, 171 

 various kinds of, 172, 173, 177, 



178 

 Daphne, the Alpine, 166 

 Darwin and Lotd Morton's mare, 400 

 Dawson, Mr. Charles, discovers the 



missing link, 284 

 X)eodar, the Himalayan cedar, 320 

 Destruction of native animals in 



England, 15 

 Dewar, Sir James, on suspended 



animation of luminous bacteria, 



158 

 Diet, certain substances necessary to 



healthy, 294 

 Diptera or two-winged flies, divisions 



of, 222 

 Disharmonies in animal structure and 

 habit, 227 

 in man's structure, 228 

 Display in courtship, 197 et seq. 

 Divination, 371 

 by the forked twig, 384 

 by throwing a rod into the air, 383 

 varieties of methods in, 371 



Divining-rod, the, 383 



Dormouse, easily loses the skin of its 



tail, 219 

 Dousers and dousing, 385 

 dishonest variety of, 388 

 or water-finders tested by a com- 

 mittee, 392 

 some honest, 387 

 Dragon, the heraldic, and the para- 

 chute lizard, 382 

 Dredge, the naturalist's, 1 

 Duclaux, Professor, his advice as to 



diet, 299 

 Dunwich, a submerged city, Jo 



Earth-worm, coelom of the, 338 

 Educability, 213, 268-269 

 Elaterids, a family of beetles, 225 

 phosphorescent species of, 234 

 Emperor moth, attractive smell of 



female, 209 

 Eoanthropus Dawsoni, the Piltdown 



Hominid, 283 

 Erosion of the coast, 51 

 Euphausia, a phosphorescent shrimp, 



picture of, 1 54 

 Evergreens, our native, list of, 312 

 Ewart, Prof. Cossar, his experiments 



on telegony, 400 

 Experience, learning by individual, 



212 

 Expression by the face, greater in 



man than apes, 273 

 Eyes of deep-sea animals, 93 



Fabrci his opinion of animal intelli- 

 gence, 197, 198 



Fainting, men, at sight of blood, 345 



Fast days, 351, 352 , 



Felixstowe beach, 56 

 erosion of the coast at, 50 

 large piece of amber found at, 70 



Fertilization, 180 



Fir, Scots, 30s, 321 

 Silver, or Abies pectinata, 315 

 used to build the Trojan horse, 306 



Fire-flies of Southern Europe, 233 



Firestones, 65 



Fish, a young, saves Manu from the 

 Deluge, 353 

 and Christian ornament, 356, 357 

 and fast days, 351 et seq. 

 as the symbol of Christ, 354 

 certain, poisonous to every one, 

 358 



