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INDEX 



Grote, Mrs., on Owen's smile, 2il 

 Grimsel pass, 28 



Guinea, New, pygmy men of, 237 

 Gulliver and Hercules, 236 



Harpoon, the shot, invented by 

 Sven Foyn, the great means 

 of exterminating whales, 

 378 

 Harvey's dictum, 223 

 Heart, reversible, of Ascidians, 280 

 Heaving, an English custom, 269 

 Herb, Paris, 21 

 Herodotus, 87 



on the African pygmies, 236 

 Herring's racing plates, 56 

 Hirase and Ikeno, Japanese dis- 

 covers, 115 

 Horse-jumping (figure), 59, 64 

 the galloping, 52 

 various figures of, 55, 57. 59, 64 

 Hortus sanitatis, picture from the, 



89 

 Hotels, bad food in, 176 

 Hull, a Hindoo feast, 269 

 HtJxley and Lionel Beale, 392 

 Hyena, the laugh of the, 208 



Ice, colour of, 47 



properties of, 31 

 Ice-caves, 43 

 Ignorance, the scientific man admits 



his, 403 

 Illusions as to size, 81, 82 

 Immunity, 346-348 

 Incubus, the, 228 

 Infants killed by house-flies, 344 

 Inoculations, 346-348 

 Insects, fertilisers of flowers, 17 

 the cause of the colours of flowers, 

 118 

 Interlaken, i 



Interpreters of science needed, 395 

 Irrigation, need of this great art and 



modern engineering, 371 

 Ivory known before the elephant, 

 133 



Japanese picture of galloping horse, 



.59 

 Jenner introduced inoculation with 

 cowpox to protect against 

 smallpox, 347 



Jephson, Mr., and the great elephant'.i 



tusks of Emin Pasha, 125 

 Jewel in the toad's head, 85 

 Jonson, Ben, refers to fern-seed, 96 

 Julius Cassar and the calendar, 262, 



263 

 Jungfrau, 7 

 railway, 1 1 



Kew Gardens, green rose in, 112 

 Kisses, 193 



two kinds of, 193 

 Kissing an exploration by smell, 195 



between men, abandoned, 194 

 Koban, flying gallop (figure), 57 

 Koran, drinking the ink which 

 has been used to write a 

 sentence of the, 95 

 Krebstein, stone from crayfish, 93 



Laplanders, 237 

 Laugh of derision, 211 



of escape, 209 



of exultation, 211 

 Laughter, 205 



of animals, 207, 208 



origin of, 207 



value of, 206 



varieties of, 207 

 Leonardo da Vinci, bust supposed to 



be by him, 272 

 Lepidotus, fossil fish, the teeth of 

 which are the toadstones, 



91 

 Lerida rock shelter, 248 

 Lice in the heads of 80 per cent, of 



rural ^chool-children, 333 

 regarded with favour, 332 

 Liitschine Valley, i 



Maggots, views of early writers as to 



their origin, 223 

 Magic and medicine, 94 

 Majorca, extinct rat-toothed goat 



discovered there, 150 

 Make-believe and children, 257 

 Malaria and mosquitoes, 333 

 Malic acid and chemotaxis, 109 

 Mammoth destroyed by man, 366 



the, of Siberia, 122 

 Man as a carrier of disease, 343 

 Man, the flower of all the ages, 400 

 Marchantia-like growth from fern- 

 spore, 100, lOI 



