INDEX 



411 



Rothes moutonn^es, 49 

 Rodin, the sculptor, 84 

 Rorquals or finners, 377 

 Rose, the Alpine, 16 

 Rose, the green, H2 

 Rfitisseur, the, 183 

 Royal fern, osmunda, no 

 figure of, in 



Sage, the yellow, fertilisation of, 4 



St. Helena, plants exterminated, 369 



Salvia glutinosa, 4 



Salps, alternation of generations in 

 the, 302, 303 

 floating sea-squirts, 302 



Schafer, Professor, his presidential 

 address to the British Asso- 

 ciation at Dundee in 1912, 



395. 39S 

 Scheidegg, 11 



Schillings, his remarkable photo- 

 graphs, 73 

 Schweinfurth, discovery of the Akka 



pygmies by, 236 

 Science, misconceptions about, 388 

 Sea-birds, photographs of, 71 

 Sea-squirts or Ascidians, 277 

 Secret, the, of a terrible disease, 330 

 Seed, nature of, 116 

 Seeing, some account of, 67 

 Shah of Persia wishes to behead the 



Astronomer Royal, 265 

 Shakespeare and the jewel in the 

 toad's head, 85 

 refers to fern seed, 96 

 Shamrock, false, 270 



the real, 269, 271 

 Simplification and degeneration, 293, 



304. 305-309 

 Sinclair, Mr. Upton, o,n food, 164 

 Skin, the, as a defence against the 



entry of parasites, 342 

 Smell, attraction and repulsion by, 

 200-202 

 curious, of sponges, 187 

 minute size of particles which pro- 

 duce, 199 

 of rubbed quartz stones, 192 

 of smelts, of mackerel, of snail, of 

 cuttle-fish, of musk-rat, of 

 musk-deer, of toads, of 

 civet, badger, and fox, of 

 bats, 188 



I Smell,sense of, differs in development 

 197 

 unconscious guidance by, 203 

 Smells and memory, 185 

 and perfumes, 184 

 caused by bacteria, 189 

 Snow, red, 34 

 Snow-crystals, 33 

 Soldanella, 17 

 Solstice and equinox, 260 

 Soul, St. Augustine on the origin of 

 the, 402 

 when introduced into the develop- 

 ing individual man, 401 

 when introduced into the man- 

 like ape, 400 

 Spark, electric, used in photography, 



73 



Spermaceti and a bust, 272 

 chemistry of, 273 



Sperms, motile, of the Gingko and 

 Cycad, 114 

 or spermatozoa of ferns, 105 



Sperm - sacs on fern's prothallus 

 (figures), 105 



Sperm-whale or cachalot, 273 



Sphenodon or tuatara, 358 



Spiders compared with scorpions, 294 



Spirits and ghostly essences, 397 

 are no explanation of life, 398 



Spiritual conception, 228 



Spore of fern germinating (figures), 

 100 



Spore-bearer (fern), 106 



Stage, the, and the moon, 83 



Star-patterned mats which are com- 

 pound Ascidians (figure), 

 281 



Steatopygous figures drawn by 

 bushmen and carved by 

 Aurignacians, 252 



Stones, magical, from various ani- 

 mals, 93 



Strata, contortions of, 8, 9 



Stubbs, painter of the flying gallop, 60 



Suffolk crag, 39, 49 



Sulphurous acid to ward off body- 

 louse, 337 



Swift derived Lilliputians from story 

 of Hercules, 236 



Tadpole of frog and ascidian com- 

 pared (figures), 283, 285 



