LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Weymouth Anemone, Actinoloba Dianthus, and
the contorted Tube-worm Serpula Contortuplicata
[Frontispiece]
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1.A Portion of the Branching Tubular Growth
formed by Rhabdopleura Normani
[5]
2.One of the Polyps of Rhabdopleura[7]
3.A Piece of the White Branching Coral (Lophohelia prolifera)[9]
4.British Marine Worms or Chætopods[78]
5.The Shell of the Heart-urchin (Spatangus purpureus)
with its Spines rubbed off
[80]
6.British Sea-anemones[85]
7.A Common British Jelly-fish[94]
8.A Common British Jelly-fish[96]
9.The Larval or Young Form of Crustacea known
as "the Nauplius"
[105]
10.The Common Ship's Barnacle, Lepas anatifera[109]
11.A Large British Sea-acorn, Balanus porcatus[110]
12.Two Stages in the Growth of the Common
Barnacle from the Nauplius Stage
[112]
13.The Picture of the "Goose Tree," copied from
the First Edition of Gerard's "Herbal"
[123]
14.Fanciful Designs by Mykenæan Artists, showing
Change of the Cuttlefish (Octopus or
"Poulpe") into a Bull's Head and other Shapes
[131]
15.The Goose and the Barnacle[133]
16.Copy of a Series of Modified Geese painted on
an early Mykenæan Pot, figured by M. Perrot
[134]
17.Two Drawings on Pottery of Modified Geese,
from Perrot's "Ossuaire de Crète"
[135]
18.Leaves from the Tree, drawn on a Mykenæan Pot[136]
19.Some British Marine Bivalve Molluscs[144]
20.The Two Common Kinds of "Sand-hopper"[153]
21.A Phosphorescent Shrimp (Euphausia pellucida)[154]
22.The Crane-fly (Daddy-Long-Legs), Tipula oleracea[217]
23.Comparison of the Right Half of the Lower Jaw
of A, Modern European; B, Eoanthropus from
Piltdown; and C, Chimpanzee
[277]
24.Diagrams of the Lower Surface of the Lower
Jaw of A, Man; B, The Eoanthropus of Piltdown
(The Left Half Re-constructed); and C, The Chimpanzee
[283]
25.The Piltdown Jaw and the Heidelberg Jaw[286]
26.The Canine Tooth of the Right Side of the Lower
Jaw of Eoanthropus Dawsoni
[287]
27.Canine Tooth of the Right Side of the Lower
Jaw of a European Child, Milk Dentition
[287]
28.The Piltdown Jaw (Eoanthropus)[288]
29.Complete Skull and Jaw of Eoanthropus Dawsoni[290]
30.The Complete Skull and Jaw of a Young Chimpanzee[290]
31.A Fertile Branch of the Scots Fir, Pinus sylvestris[305]
32.The Common Yew, Taxus baccata[310]
33.A Thin Slice across One of the Foliage Needles
of the Common Spruce
[314]
34.A Thin Slice across One of the Foliage Needles
of the Silver Fir
[315]
35.The Upright Female Cone of the Silver Fir,
Abies pectinata
[316]
36.Structure of the Female Cone of the Silver Fir[317]
37.The Female Cone of the Common Spruce, Picea excelsa[318]
38.The Female Cone and the Foliage of the Common
Larch, Larix Europœa
[319]
39.Female Cone of the Pinaster, or Maritime Pine
(Pinus pinaster)
[323]
40.Female Cone of the Monterey Pine of California
(Pinus insignis)
[325]
41.Female Cone of Pinus muricata[326]
42.Female Cone of the Douglas Fir of North-West
America, Pseudotsuga Douglasii
[327]
43.The Fore-arm of Man, with the Skin removed so
as to show the Large Superficial Lymphatic
Vessels resting on the Muscles
[334]

Oh! how light and lovely the air is upon the earth! How beautiful thou art, my earth, my golden, my emerald, my sapphire earth! Who, born to thy heritage would choose to die, would wish to close his eyes upon thy serene beauties and upon thy magnificent spaces?—Feodor Sologub.


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