Living lights

• Æroscope, 155.
• Agaric, luminous, 135, et seq.
• Agassiz, Mrs., on jelly-fish, 11.
• —— Louis, 19.

• Baird, William, on Chinese fire-flies, 68.
• Baird, Professor S. F., 94.
• Balmain’s luminous paint, 164.
• Banks, Sir Joseph, on luminous crabs, 75.
• Beetles, 47.
• cannonading, 48.
• odorous, 48.
• flesh-eating, 48.
• grave-digging, 49.
• Scarabæus, 49.
• lightning-bugs, 49.
• Bellot, Lieut., on luminous crustaceans, 73.
• Bennett, D. F., on luminous shark, 100.
• Berkeley, Rev. J. M., on fox-fire, 131.
• Black swallower, 97.
• Blind fishes, 92.
• “Blood-rains,” 153.
• Bombay duck, 93.
• Boon Island, sea-jellies at, 10.
• Boring-shells, 40.
• Branner, John C., on lantern-fly, 67.
• Burning bush, legends of, 129.

• Canton’s phosphorus, 156.
• Centipedes, 69.
• Chalk Cliff, Dover, 3.
• “Challenger,” exploring-ship, 24, 31.
• China, luminous insects in, 65.
• Chinese luminous paint, 164.
• Coal-mines, luminosity in, 133.
• Collingwood, Dr. Cuthbert, on luminous fungus, 134.
• Corals, 21.
• Col. Pike on their phosphorescence, 21.
• Cosmic dust, 148 et seq.
• composition of, 149.
• Crabs, luminous, 72 et seq.
• Cranes, phosphorescence of, 109.
• Crustaceans, luminous, 72.
• Lieut. Bellot on, 73.
• Nordenskiöld on, 73.
• Cuttle-fishes, 46.
• Cyclops, 73.

• Darwin on phosphorescence of Medusæ, 17.
• —— on earthworms, 34.
• —— on lightning-bugs of South America, 57.
• —— on dust-showers, 152.
• Deep sea, fishes of, 91 et seq.
• Deep-sea shrimps, brilliant colors, 79.
• Deep-sea dredging, 93.
• Dejean, Gen., story of, 47.
• Diatoms, luminous, 128 et seq.
• Donovan, luminous insects of India, 68.
• Drummond, Mr., on luminous toadstools, 136.
• Dubois, Professor Raphael, on phosphorescence, 61.
• Dust, luminous, 148.
• Dust showers at sea, 152.

• Earth-worms, 33.
• of New Zealand, 33.
• Darwin on, 34.
• Roman villas preserved by, 34.
• of Australia, 35.
• of India, 35.
• luminosity, 35.
• Echinoderm, nature of, 29.

• Finny light-bearers, 91 et seq.
• Fireflies, 59 et seq.
• as ball-room ornaments, 59.
• as lanterns, 60.
• spectrum of their light, 61.
• brilliancy, 52.
• Fire-mushroom, 134.
• Fish, luminous, 91 et seq.
• Fish, dead, phosphorescent, 141.
• “Fish-stories,” 97.
• Fogs, luminous, 146.
• Fox-fire, 131.
• Florida Reef, 3, 24.
• displays of phosphorescence at, 107.
• Flowers, luminous, 121.
• Frog’s eggs, luminosity of, 114.
• Fungus, luminous, 133 et seq.

• Gardiner, Mr., on luminous fungus, 135.
• Garfish, phosphorescent, 106.
• Gecko, luminosity of, 115.
• Globerigina, 3.
• Goethe on luminosity of poppy, 122.
• Gorgonias, 24.
• Sir Wyville Thompson on, 25.
• Dr. Holder on, 26.
• Günther, Dr., on luminous fish, 92.

• Hailstones, luminous, 145.
• Homer’s “Iliad,” dust-shower in, 154.
• Herons, luminosity of, 113.
• Human beings sometimes luminous, 116.
• Humboldt on phosphorescence, 6.

• Ice, luminous, 146.
• Infusoria, 152.

• Jaeger, Professor, on luminous beetles, 60.
• Jelly-fish. See Medusæ.
• Josephus refers to luminosity of plants, 130.

• Kane, Dr. E. K., curious instance of luminosity recorded by, 117.

• Lantern-flies, 64 et seq.
• Legends of the “burning bush,” 129.
• Light-emitting organs of Medusæ, 17.
• Luminous larvæ, 54 et seq.
• Lightning-bugs, 47.
• Southey, the poet, on, 49.
• of West India Islands, 50.
• Gosse on, 51.
• common, of Eastern United States, 52.
• common, of Europe, 56.
• Luminosity in man, instances of, 116.
• of plants, 129 et seq.
• Luminous organs of lightning-bugs, 55.
• —— fishes, 94.
• —— fogs, 146.
• —— “ink,” 156.
• —— marbles, 155.
• —— organs of fishes, 98.
• —— paint, 157.
• —— showers, 144.
• Lyell, Sir Charles, on cosmic dust, 152.

• Mackerel, luminosity of, 104.
• Marigold, luminosity of, 121.
• Martyr, Peter, on luminous insects, 62.
• Meat, phosphorescent, 141.
• Medusæ, or jelly-fish, 10–18.
• numbers, 11.
• light-givers, 11.
• Professor A. Agassiz on, 12.
• brilliance, 14.
• Darwin on, 17.
• Spallanzani on their phosphorescence, 17.
• Humboldt on, 18.
• Menhaden, luminosity of, 103.
• Merian, Madame, on the luminosity of Fulgora lanternaria, 66.
• Meteors of the sea, 10.
• Monkey, luminosity of eyes of, 114.
• Moonfish, 105.
• Mount Blanc, luminous cap of, 146.
• Mushrooms, edible, 138.
• Mussel Bay, luminous snow, 74.

• Nasturtium, luminosity of, 121.
• Noctiluca, 4–9.
• Nordenskjöld discovers cosmic dust, 148.

• Oban, sea-pens at, 26.
• Ogunquit, Me., sunfish at, 104.
• Ooze, 3.
• Ovideo on luminous insects, 62.

• Phantoms, 140.
• Pholas, 40.
• Phosphorescence of the sea, 6–9.
• —— the secret of, 41.
• —— of Pyrosoma, 81.
• Phosphorescence, its uses, 160.
• Pliny, on the luminosity of Pholas, 41.
• Polyps, their phosphorescence, 24.
• Poppy, luminosity of, 121, 123.
• Pteropods, 42.
• Pyrosoma, 81 et seq.

• Rotifers, 36.

• San Gabriel Valley, beetles in, 48.
• Sea-anemones, 20.
• Sea fans and plumes, 24.
• Sea-opossum, 75.
• Sea-pen, 26–28.
• Sea-slugs, luminous, 44.
• Sea-urchins, 29.
• Seas of flame, 86 et seq.
• Serapis, Temple of, 40.
• Shark, luminous, 99 et seq.
• Slugs, garden, 45.
• Spiders of the sea, luminous, 76.
• Squid, 46.
• Star-fish, 29–32.
• Sugar, flashes of light from, 155.
• Sunfish, 104.

• Toadstools, luminous, 136.
• Touchwood, or fox-fire, 131.
• Trepang, 29.
• Tulasue, M., on luminous fungus, 134.

• Venus’s girdle, 15.
• Verbenas, luminosity of, 122.

• Water-fleas, 72.
• Water-spouts, luminous, 127.
• Whales, supposed phosphorescence of, 106.
• Worms, marine, 35.
• phosphorescent, 36–39.
• Worrall, Mr. Isaac W., on luminosity of crane, 109.

Transcriber’s Notes:

1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.

2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.