INDEX
- Abies, the genus of the Silver Fir, [317]
- Acorns, sea-, [100], [110]
- Actinia mesembryanthemum, a common sea-anemone, [85], [86]
- living in an aquarium for fifty years, [86]
- African animals, preservation of, [20]
- Alchemists and the divining-rod, [385]
- Aldeburgh, amber to be bought there, [74]
- the great pebble beach at, [55]
- Alpine flowers, [161]
- reason of strong colour of, [167], [168]
- Amber, [71-76]
- chemical nature of, [75]
- insects in, [73]
- uses of, [73], [74]
- Amber-routes, [70]
- Ambleteuse, once a great harbour, [51]
- Amphioxus, [2]
- Anchovy, the, [359]
- sauce, its history and colour, [359]
- Anemone, the Weymouth, [88]
- Anemones, sea-, [81], [84], [85], [86]
- fertilization of, [186]
- Anthea cereus, a sea-anemone, [86]
- Ape, the lines on the palm of the, [373]
- to man, from, [236-291]
- Apes, mental qualities of, [241], [242]
- Aquariums, marine, made fashionable by Mr. Gosse, [83]
- "Arabian Nights," stories as to men turned into fish, [353]
- Araucaria, the monkey-puzzle, [329]
- Arbor vitæ, a kind of cypress, [330]
- Argentière (Switzerland), [164]
- Aril of the yew tree, [310]
- Arthropods or jointed-leg owners, [102], [103]
- Ashtaroth, [352]
- Astrology, [372]
- Atargatis, [352]
- Atlas cedar, [320]
- Augurs, the Roman corporation of, [371]
- Aurelia, the common jelly-fish, [95]
- Australian natives, [29], [30]
- Automata, animals as, [187]
- Balancers or dwindled wings of the two-winged flies, [218]
- Balanus, the sea-acorn or acorn-barnacle, [110]
- Ballet, Russian Imperial, [169], [177]
- Barnacle, growth and transformation of, [111-113]
- the legend of the, and the goose, [118-141]
- the ship's, figure of, [109]
- Barnacle-goose, the, [118]
- Barnacles, [100], [108-141]
- nauplius young of, discovered by the Army surgeon, Vaughan Thompson, [107]
- their "complemental males" discovered by Darwin, [115]
- Barrett, Sir W. F., on water-finders, [389], [390]
- Beaches, constituents of, [53], [55-63]
- Bee, the queen, retains the sperm of one drone for four or five years, [405]
- Beit, M. Otto, [408]
- Bernacæ and bernak, Celtic word for shell-fish, [121]
- Berri-berri, a disease due to bad diet, [297]
- Birds believed to be produced by trees, [118]
- their courtship, [298-300]
- Birth-marks, belief in, similar to that in magical power of water-finders, [390]
- experiment by the patriarch Jacob, [391], [399]
- Mr. Heape on, [398]
- Bivalve and univalve shells, [143]
- Bleeding of the nose, Latin hymn to arrest, [343]
- Blood, amount of, in man's body, [348]
- coloured blue in scorpions, crustaceans, and molluscs, [346]
- colourless corpuscles of, [349]
- colourless, of lower animals, [346]
- duties of the, [349], [350]
- emotion and excitement caused by sight of, [345]
- fascination of, distinguished from cruelty, [344]
- of the grub of the midge and of the coiled pond-snail, coloured red by hæmoglobin, [346]
- red corpuscles of, [347]
- superstitions about, [342], [343]
- the, and its circulation, [343] et seq.
- the only case of an insect with red, [223], [346]
- used as an adhesive by Australians, [343]
- Blood-stream, its pace in man, [348]
- Blood-vessels, swollen, of molluscs, crustacea, and insects, [340]
- Bournemouth, various pine trees at, [324]
- Bower-bird, its play-run, [196]
- Brain of apes and man, [253] et seq.
- increase of its size means increase of educability, [268]
- significance of its greater size in man than apes, [257-261]
- small brains of extinct animals, [259]
- Brent-geese and tree-geese, [122]
- Bristle-worms, [79]
- Browne, Sir Thomas, and the spontaneous generation of mice, [125]
- Bruno, St., his lily, [165]
- Bummaloh, or Bombay duck, [359]
- Bunodes crassicornis, a sea-anemone, [85], [86]
- Bustard, the courting of the, [199]
- Buttercup, the white, [165]
- Cable, author of "Old Creole Days," [55]
- Canard and cock-and-bull stories, [119]
- Canine tooth of the Piltdown jaw, discovery of the, [287]
- Capercailzie, the, [44]
- Carnelians on the Felixstowe beach, [58]
- Cedars, [319]
- Cement stones, [58]
- Charles II and the globe of fish, [406]
- Chartreuse, the Grande, [163]
- Chesil beach, the, [61]
- Chin, the bony, of man, peculiar to him, [250]
- Christmas trees, [302]
- Chyle, the, [333]
- Circulation, the, of the blood, [348]
- Cirripedes, the order comprising barnacles, [114]
- Click-beetles, the adults of wire-worms, [225]
- Cockle, the common, [146]
- jumping powers of the, [150]
- Cœlom, the lymph-holding body cavity, [338]
- Colours of marine animals, [93]
- Cone of the Douglas fir (figure), [327]
- of the Larch (figure), [319]
- of the Monterey Pine, or Pinus insignis (figure), [325]
- of the Pinaster (figure), [323]
- of the Prickly pine, Pinus muricata (figure), [326]
- (male and female) of the Scots fir (figure), [305]
- (female) of the Silver fir (figure), [316]
- (female) of the Spruce or Christmas tree (figure), [318]
- (modified) of the Yew tree (figure), [310]
- Cones, globular, of cypress, [330]
- of juniper, [308], [331]
- of firs and pine trees, [303]
- Coniferæ, survey of, [313]
- tabular statement of their families, sections, and genera, [331]
- Conifers, the three commonest in England, [308]
- Conjugation in lower forms of life, [183]
- Conjurers still believed by some to conjure spirits and deal in the black art, [365]
- Connective tissue, [335]
- Conscious and unconscious minds, [262-263]
- Consciousness, arrival of, [213]
- Contagious magic and fish-eating, [354]
- Copal gum, similar to amber, [73]
- Copalite found at Highgate, [76]
- Coprolite on the Suffolk shore, [59]
- Coral, white, [3], [9]
- Corals related to sea-anemones, [89]
- Corethra, the plume fly, its transparent larva, [27], [224]
- Corpus Christi, festival of, and dancing, [174]
- Corpuscles, colourless, of the blood, [349]
- red, of the blood, [347]
- 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]
- Cyancæa, 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 Lord Morton's mare, [400]
- Dawson, Mr. Charles, discovers the missing link, [284]
- Deodar, 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 be 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 committee, [392]
- some honest, [387]
- Dragon, the heraldic, and the parachute lizard, [382]
- Dredge, the naturalist's, [1]
- Duclaux, Professor, his advice as to diet, [299]
- Dunwich, a submerged city, [50]
- Earth-worm, cœlom 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, [154]
- 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]
- Fabre, his opinion of animal intelligence, [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, [305], [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]
- modelled in gold, life size, dug up near the Black Sea, [353]
- poisons, [357], [358]
- some, poisonous only to certain individuals, [358]
- worship of, and the fish-god, [352]
- Fish-worship of the ancient Greek Orpheists, [355]
- Flame, flash of, produced under water, [66]
- produced by rubbing two quartz pebbles together, [65]
- Flame-seeking insects, [229], [230]
- Flies, two-winged, or Diptera which are phosphorescent, [234]
- various kinds of, [222], [223]
- Fly as dirt carrier, [300]
- Food, constituents of, [292]
- Foot of man and his upright carriage, [243]
- Foot-jaws of crab and lobster, [104]
- Forbes, Edward, a sketch by, [159]
- Fowl, the common, [43]
- France gained courage and self-respect through Pasteur, [415]
- French cookery, sham, in Switzerland, [165]
- Fresh water jelly-fish, [91], [92]
- Fridays and fish-eating, by Jews as well as Christians, [352]
- Frog, blue variety of the edible, [163]
- Futurists, [23]
- Galliformes, an order of birds, [43]
- Geese, drawings of, by ancient Mykenæan artists, modified to resemble barnacles, [133], [134]
- Gelinotte, [46]
- Geology and living toads in rocks, [379]
- Geomancy, [372]
- Gerard the herbalist on the transformation of ship's barnacles into geese, [121]
- Giard, Professor; discovery of a phosphorescent disease in sand-hoppers, by him, [156]
- Gingko tree of Japan, [309]
- Giraldus Cambrensis and the production of geese from timber, [120]
- Glass-like marine animals, [92]
- Glow-worms, [233]
- Goose-tree, the, as drawn by Gerard in 1597, [123]
- Gopher tree of the Bible, [330]
- Gosse, Mr. Philip Henry, [83]
- Greek dancing, [175], [176]
- name-gods or totems, [356]
- Grouse, black, red, and others, [45]
- the, and allied birds, [41]
- Gummi-horn, the, [160]
- Hæma, the red part of blood, [339], [347]
- Hæmoglobin, or blood-red, [347]
- in the blood of the larva of thebig black midge (Chironomus), [223]
- in Bonellia, [11]
- in the coiled pond-snail, [346]
- Hæmolymph, the proper name for vertebrate blood, [339], [346]
- Hallucination and self-hypnotism, [372]
- Hamingia, a green worm, [10-11]
- Hamlet and superstition, [361]
- Hampstead Heath, [16]
- Hands and feet, size and shape of, as indicating character, [375]
- Hardanger Fiord, [3]
- Haruscipation, [372]
- Heart-urchin, [80]
- Henslow, of Cambridge, [59]
- Hierapolis, where Atargatis was worshipped, [352]
- Hopkins, Mr. Gowland, his experiments on diet, [294]
- Hôtel du Planet, good food at, [164]
- House sparrow trained to be a songster, [207]
- Houssay, M. Frederic, his discovery of the origin of the goose and barnacle story in paintings on Mykenæan vases, [131] et seq.
- Huxley and Cuvier on the distinctive quality of man, [272]
- and Owen, their controversy, [236]
- Hybridization, infection of plants by, [403]
- Hydra tuba breaks up into jelly-fish, [97]
- Idiosyncrasy as to poisonous quality of fish, [358]
- Infant, crying of the human, a speciality, [272]
- Infantile diarrhœa, [300]
- Inflammation, nature of, [349]
- Insects, many guided by the sense of smell, [209]
- Instinct and reason in courtship, [205]
- Instincts, [267]
- Intestine, the large, a disharmony, [228]
- Japan, the umbrella pine of, [330]
- Javanese story of a bird produced by a shell-fish, [138]
- Jaw, lower surface of the Piltdown, compared with that of man and of chimpanzee, [282]
- from Moulin-Quignon, [289]
- Heidelberg, compared with Piltdown, [286]
- Piltdown, [283]
- Jelly-fish, [91], [94], [95], [96], [97]
- Jelly-fishes which sting, [95]
- Juniper, the, [308], [330]
- Junipers, [330]
- Kauri resin, similar to amber, [73]
- Kowalewsky, the Russian zoologist, [11]
- Labouchere, Mr. Henry, his view on food, [293]
- Lacteals, or milky lymphatic vessels, [333]
- Lampyris noctiluca, the common glow-worm, [233]
- Lancelet, the, [2]
- Langouste, [99]
- Larch tree, the common, [307], [319]
- Laughter in apes, [241]
- Leather-jackets, the grubs of the Crane-fly, [221]
- Lebanon, cedar of, [320]
- Lepas anatifera, the ship's barnacle, [109]
- Leprosy and fish-diet, [357]
- favoured by same conditions as scurvy, [296]
- Lervik (Norway), [3]
- Lights, nocturnal, attract insects and birds, [230], [232]
- Lily of St. Bruno, [166]
- Limpet and cockle compared, [146], [148]
- Lizard, the parachute, is the model upon which the heraldic dragon is founded, [382]
- Lobsters, [99], [100]
- Loch Fyne herrings, their food, [155]
- Longevity of a sea-anemone, [86]
- Lophohelia, [9]
- Luciola italica, the fire-fly of South Europe, [233]
- Luges, or mountain sledges, [167]
- Lug-worm, [79]
- Luminous bacteria, [158]
- grub of Paraguay called the railway-beetle, [234]
- or luminescent insects, [232]
- Lyell, Mr., his Bill for the preservation of the Great Grey Seal, [32], [34]
- Sir Charles, used the term "missing link," [276]
- Lymph, amount of, in man's body, [333], [348]
- and lymphatic system, [332] et seq.
- Lymphatic vessels of the human arm (figure), [334]
- Lymph-hearts, [337]
- Magi, the priests of Zoroaster, [368]
- Magic, history of, [369], [370]
- sympathetic, [369]
- Male, the seeker and wooer, [185], [190]
- Man, his conscious memory, [187]
- primitive, courtship of, [195]
- Mandrill, beautiful colours of the, [205]
- Man's modern method of courtship, [215]
- structure compared with that of the gorilla and chimpanzee, [239], [240], [241]
- Manu, the Indian Noah, [353]
- Mare, Lord Morton's, [400]
- Mares not infected by sire, [399-400], [401]
- Mastodon, fragments of teeth of, found with the Piltdown jaw, [289]
- Mate-hunger, Mr. Pycraft on, [191], [192]
- Maternal impressions, [396] et seq.
- May-flies or Ephemerids, [230]
- some are phosphorescent or luminescent, like glow-worms, [231]
- Mechanisms of instinct, inherited, [268], [269]
- of the mind, distinguished, [211], [212]
- Medicines, quack, and credulity, [366]
- Memory essential to consciousness, [264]
- unconscious, [266]
- unconscious and conscious, distinguished, [212], [214]
- Mendés, Catulle, the French poet, and jelly-fish, [97]
- Metchnikoff on disharmonies, [367]
- Midge (Chironomus), its grub has red blood, [346]
- Midges, large kind of, [223]
- Milk and infantile scurvy, [296]
- Pasteurized, [300]
- supply of pure, [292] et seq.
- Millais, Sir Everett, on telegony, [400]
- Millionaire and sodium in the sun, [378]
- Milton the poet, his belief in spontaneous generation, [126]
- Mind, the, of apes and of man, [262] et seq.
- of man differs from that of animals, [213]
- Missing link, the, [275] et seq.
- Molluscs, alternate swelling of and shrinking of parts of the body, [149]
- and their shells, [142] et seq.
- Monboddo, Lord, his views on man and apes, [276]
- Monkey-puzzle or Araucarian pine, [329]
- Moray, Sir Robert, on the transformation of the ship's barnacle into a goose, [115], [127]
- Moth, the, and the candle, [226] et seq.
- vapourer, male pursues female living in water and is drowned, [210]
- Mules, [399]
- Müller, Iwan, and the microscope, [28]
- Müller, Professor Max, his suggestion as to the origin of the belief that barnacles give rise to geese, [139-141]
- Murray, Sir John, at Millport, [155]
- Muscles of apes and men, [247]
- Music a late acquisition of man, [208]
- Mussel, the edible, [145]
- Name-gods or totems of ancient Greeks, [356]
- Naples, [2], [52], [203]
- Naturalist on the seashore, [25]
- Nature reserves, [13]
- Nature-worship, the ancient, [352]
- Nauplius, the young form or larva of crustaceans, [105], [106], [107]
- Neander or Moustierian man, [280]
- Necromancy, or communication with the dead, [371]
- Needles of firs and pine trees, [303], [315]
- of pine-trees in tufts of one to five, [321]
- Nero, the Roman Emperor, and amber, [71]
- "Nigromantia" and the black at, [371]
- Nobel prizes, [412]
- Normand, Rev. Canon, [3]
- Norway, [1]
- Noverre, "the Shakespeare of the dance," [176]
- "Nullius in verba," the motto of the Royal Society, [128], [362], [407]
- Nutrition, not so simple a matter as supposed, [293]
- Occultism, modern, [363]
- Octopus, courtship of the, [203]
- Odours as attractions and guides in courtship, [209]
- Opal, [57]
- Orchestia, a sand-hopper, [153]
- Orpheus, the fish-god, substituted for Dionysus, the wine-god, [355]
- the warden of the fishes, a fish-god, [355]
- Ovules and sperms, [181]
- Oxygen carried by the red corpuscles of blood, [347]
- Oysters growing on trees, [145]
- Palmistry or chiromancy, [372], [373]
- Paradisia liliastrum, [166]
- Pasteur, the Institut, a great seat of discovery, [416]
- what he cost to France, [415]
- Pavlova, Madame Anna, [169], [178]
- Pebbles of the seashore, [55-63]
- Penguins, method of courtship of, [196]
- Pentargon Cove and a young Grey Seal, [35], [40]
- Perfumes produced by male butterflies, [210]
- use of, by man, [209]
- Phagocytes, [336], [349]
- Phonograph and chants of Australian natives, [31]
- Phosphorescence of the sea, [153]
- Phosphorescent insects, [232]
- sand-hoppers, [156]
- shrimps, [154], [155]
- Photo-taxis or light guidance, [235]
- Picea, the genus of the Spruce or Christmas tree, [317]
- Pierre-à-voir, [167]
- Piltdown jaw, age of the, [289]
- jaw and Heidelberg jaw compared, [286]
- jaw, as reconstructed by Dr. Smith Woodward, [288]
- skull and jaw, [289]
- Pine, origin of the word, [304]
- Aleppo, [322]
- Arolla (Pinus cembra), [328]
- Bhotan (Pinus excelsa), [329]
- Californian prickly, [320]
- cluster, or Pinaster, [322]
- Corsican or Austrian, [322]
- Monterey, or Pinus insignis, at Bournemouth, [324]
- Montezuma of Mexico, [329]
- Pyrenæan or Calabrian, [322]
- stone, or parasol pine, [323]
- trees and other conifers, [302] et seq.
- umbrella, of Japan, [330]
- Weymouth (Pinus strobus), [328]
- Pipe-fish, [75]
- Pollen of pine trees carried by wind, [304]
- Ponds as nature-reserves, [27]
- Prawns, [99]
- Primates, apes and bats, [238]
- Proteids, special, necessary in food, [297]
- Pseudotsuga, the Douglas fir, [327]
- Ptarmigan, [45]
- Ptomaines of putrid fish, [357]
- Puteoli, near Naples, [52]
- Quartz, [57]
- crystals, rubbed together produce flame, [67]
- Raised beaches, [52]
- Rats, experiments on feeding young, [294]
- Razor-fish, [80]
- Reasoning, the origin of false as well as of true beliefs, [367]
- Record, the Great, the peculiar possession of humanity, [271]
- Redi, Italian naturalist, on the generation of maggots by eggs laid by flies, [126]
- Regeneration of legs and tails, [218], [219]
- Religion and magic, one in origin, [369].
- Reproduction, mechanism of, [181]
- Research, scientific, a delicate plant, [411]
- how to help it by money, [413]
- various attempts at promoting, [411]
- Reserves for native fauna in various countries, [19]
- Rhabdopleura, [4], [5], [6], [7]
- Rice, polished, and berri-berri, [297]
- Rings of the body of crab, lobster, and prawn, [104]
- Rock-pools, [25], [81]
- Roman road, submerged, near Naples, [52]
- Royal Society, its influence on superstition, [361]
- its motto, [128], [362], [407]
- the method of its founders, [362]
- Ruff, the display in courtship of the, [198]
- St. Swithin's Day, belief about, exploded, [406]
- Sagartia troglodytes, a beautiful sea-anemone, [85], [88]
- Samland, where amber is mined, [70]
- Sand, dry, shrinks when wetted, [64]
- of the seashore, [65]
- size and shape of its grains, [62]
- Sand-eels, [79]
- Sand-hoppers, [152]
- disease of, [156], [157]
- Sardines, [360]
- Savin, a kind of juniper, [308]
- Scavengers, phagocytes as, [349]
- Schliemann's great experiment, [406]
- Schynige Platte, view from the, [160]
- Sciadopitys, the Japanese umbrella pine, [330]
- Science and the unknown, [361] et seq.
- Scientific discovery aided by money, [408] et seq.
- Scorpions, cannibalism of, [202]
- Scots fir, [305], [312]
- Scurvy, infantile, described by Sir Thomas Barlow, [296]
- nature of that disease, [295]
- Sea-anemones, [81], [84], [85], [86]
- Seal, the Great Grey, [32] et seq.
- the northern fur-seal, courtship of, [192], [193]
- Sea shells, [142]
- Seashore as nature-reserve, [24]
- constituents of, [48], [55]
- Sea-worms, [78], [79]
- Seeds, winged, of fir trees, [317]
- Sequoia, the Big-tree and the Red-wood, [329]
- Shakespear and barnacles, [120]
- Shells of molluscs, [142]
- Singing competitions of male birds, [207]
- Skeleton of apes and man, [245] et seq.
- Skull and jaw found at Piltdown, [277], [290]
- Smell, the sense of, in man and animals, [208], [209]
- Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute, [409]
- Snail, pond-, with red blood, [346]
- Soap-wort, [167]
- Soho, old house in, [14]
- Song, the beginnings of, in man, [208]
- Sounds as attractions in courtship, [206]
- Space, extreme cold of, not fatal to life, [159]
- Spencer, Professor Baldwin, shows bioscope pictures of Australian natives, [30]
- Sperms and ovules, [181]
- Spider's courtship and dance, [201]
- Sprats fraudulently sold as Anchovies and as Sardines, [360]
- Spruce introduced to Britain by man, [307]
- or Norway pine, [306], [317]
- Stickleback's nest and courtship, [200], [201]
- Stordö (Lervik), [3]
- Stricker of Vienna, the microscopist, [336]
- Succinite, correct name for amber, [75]
- Survival value of colour in flowers, [168]
- Switzerland, [160] et seq.
- Synapta, and anchors in its skin, [80]
- Tail of man, a disharmony, [228]
- Talitrus, a sand-hopper, [153]
- Taxodinæ, a group of fir trees, [329]
- Teeth of apes and of man, [248], [249]
- of extinct animals on the seashore, [59]
- wisdom, as disharmonies, [228]
- Telegony described, [399]
- Tetraonidæ, the grouse family, [44]
- Thoracic duct, the, [334]
- Thumb of apes and of man compared, [243]
- Thuya, the Arbor vitæ, [330]
- Tipula oleracea, the Crane-fly or Daddy-Long-Legs, [216] et seq.
- Toads found living in stone, [376] et seq.
- Topiary and yew trees, [312]
- Troy, discovery of ancient, [406]
- Tsetse fly, [22]
- Tyndal, the late Professor, [67]
- Vitamine from outer coat of rice-grain, [298]
- Volvox animalcule, [183], [184]
- Water-finder, impostor exposed, [392], [393]
- Water-finders, [387], [390]
- Water-finding, theories of, [388], [389]
- Weald of Sussex, [289]
- Wellingtonia, the American Big-tree, [329]
- Whittington and his cat, origin of the legend, [139]
- Wickham Fen, [18]
- Willey, Dr., on the lancelet, [3]
- Winter-green, [167]
- Wire-worms, true and false, [221]
- Woman in civilized races, not man, seeks to captivate by display, [211]
- Yew, the Irish, [311], [312]
- trees, [310], [311], [312]
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