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