INDEX 



Acrobats, female Cretan, 253 

 Agglutination test for typhoid fever, 



354 

 Ague and gnats, 332 

 Airy, Sir George, and the Shah, 265 

 Akkas, a pygmy race, 235 

 Alexins, 353 

 Alpenrose, 16 

 Alpine flowers, 17, 19 



grass, 20 

 Altamira cavern, paintings of the,247 

 Alternation of generations in jelly- 

 fish, tape -worms, sea- 

 squirts, and ferns, 226 

 Ambergris, 94, 191, 274 

 Amethyst, origin of the name, 95 

 Ancestral mammals, 136, 137 

 Andaman Islanders, 230 

 Angel of death, the, 331 

 Animals exterminated by man, 367 

 Antelopes, large and small species 



of, 239 

 Anthropological garden, 234 

 Antitoxins, 348 



the theory of their formation, 352 

 April fish, 268 

 Aquosity, 394 

 Aristotle, 86 

 and the mechanisms of living 



things, 390 

 on sexes of plants, 102 

 Aristotle's notions on reproduction, 



226 

 Arunta tribes of Australia, their 



theory of conception, 229 

 Ascidiaa, anatomy of (figure), 278 

 gill slits of, 285 



tadpole brain and eyeof (figure),287 

 tadpole fixing itself by its head 

 (figure), 288 



Ascidians, gem-like colours of, agt. 

 glass-like, 296, 302 

 or sea-squirts or tunicates, 277 



et seg. 

 phosphorescent, 299 

 various composite or compound 

 kinds, 296 „ 

 Assizes, black, 330 

 Augustus Caesar and the calendar, 



262 

 Aurignacian statuettes, 255 

 Australians, their views on spiritual 

 conception, 228 



Bacteria as causes of disease, 339 



Baking instead of roasting, 176 



Barnacle fixes itself by its h^ad, as 

 does Ascidian tadpole, 295 

 history of the, 293 



Bataillon, his discovery of artificial 

 parthenogenesis, 213 



Bate, Miss Dorothea, discovers n 

 strange extinct beast, 149 



Baveno, 23 



Bayeux tapestry, horse from, 57 



Beaver, when exterminated in Bri- 

 tain, 367 



Bees taken to New Zealand to ferti- 

 lise clover, 363 

 fertilise sage, 4 



Beluga, or white whale, 385 



Bestiaries, 87 



Bezoar-stone, 94 



Birds of New Zealand, such as the 

 Moa or Dinornis, Kiwi or 

 Apteryx, Takahe or Notor- 

 nis, Kakapo or Stringops, 

 Hula or long-billed crow, 

 Kea or sheep-killing parrot^ 

 359 



