INDEX.
- “Accedence of Armorie,” 52, 121, 232
- Acipenser, 330
- Acosta, “travels in the Indies,” 44
- Acrid secretion in skin of toad, 281
- “Actes of English votaries,” 69
- “Adam in Eden,” 48
- Adder, 173
- Adder eaters, 77
- Ælianus, works of, 95
- Agriophagi, 72
- Ague, specifics for, 172, 186, 309
- Ainos of Japan, 61
- Albert Nyanza in old maps, 13
- Albertus Magnus, 160, 282
- Alciatus, Book of Emblems, 84
- Aldrovandus, 63, 272, 305, 316
- Alectorius, 235, 247
- All creation a moral text book, 51, 125
- Ambrosinus, 316
- Amphisbæna, 304
- “Anatomy of Melancholy,” 309
- Anchor and Dolphin, 329
- André on theory of Creation, 125
- Andrew Marvel’s “Loyal Scot,” 69
- Andromachus, physician to Nero, 299
- Angulo or Hog-fish, 318
- Animals in art and fable, 175
- “Annals of Winchester,” 269
- Anthropophagi, 11, 72
- Antipathies, animal, 94, 153, 182, 187, 230, 232, 280, 289
- Antipathy and sympathy, 153
- Ant’s eggs, oil of, 278
- Ants of India, 196
- Ape, 122, 153
- Apollo and Raven, 241
- “Arcana Fairfaxiana,” 279
- Arena, lions in the, 123
- “Areopagitica,” 225
- Ariosto, 207, 224
- Aristotle, 30, 31, 55, 302
- “Armonye of Byrdes,” 239
- Armories, Natural History in, 32, 51, 119, 120, 121
- Arms of the City of London, 277
- Art, animals in, 175
- “Art of simpling,” 188
- Asbestos, its supposed nature, 293
- Ashmole, diary of, 279
- Askham on hare, 165
- Asp, 51, 307
- “As Pliny saith,” 4, 20
- Assyrian seals, 131
- Astrological influences, 11
- “As you like it,” 208
- Aubrey, extract from, 165, 179, 184, 238, 297
- Augustine on higher and lower truths, 49
- Authors consulted by Pliny, 26
- Avicenna on chamæleon, 296
- Azores in old map, 39
- Bacci on unicorn, 131
- Bacon’s “Natural History,” 166
- Badge, panther, of King Henry VI., 151
- Badger, 198
- Bale on scandalous reports, 69
- Ballasting of cranes and bees, 260
- Bandicoot, 196
- Barbary, lions of, 127
- Barnacle goose, 214
- Barnfield, “Cassandra,” 287
- Barrow, “Travels in Africa,” 131
- Bartholinus on unicorn, 131
- Basilisk, 265, 286, 305
- Bay-leaf as medicine, 274
- Bearded grapes, 319
- Bear, 161, 167, 182
- Beaumont and Fletcher, 162, 176
- Beaver, oil from the, 278
- Bee, 260, 310
- Beef, the praise of, 46
- Bee-hives attacked by bears, 163
- “Belvedere” of Bodenham, 170
- Bereus on unicorn, 131
- “Bestiare Divin” of Guillaume, 48
- Bestiaries of Middle Ages, 31, 50
- Blackbird, Sagacity of, 177
- Black Swan, 230
- “Blazon of Gentrie,” 119, 224
- Blood of lion black, 116
- Boar, 175
- Bœwulf on Mermaid, 80
- Boiling river, 43
- “Bonduca,” extract from, 162
- “Book of Emblems,” 84
- “Book of Knowledge,” Winstanley, 183, 248
- Boorde’s “Dyetary,” 46
- Bosjesmen, ancient Troglodytes, 3, 61
- Bossewell’s “Armorie,” 52, 169, 194
- Bostock on Pliny, 29
- Browne on Vulgar Errors, 56, 92, 106, 157, 162, 178, 205, 255, 267, 284, 313, 328
- Buffon on Pliny, 21
- Burton, “Miracles of Art and Nature,” 18, 19, 127, 131, 305
- Bussy d’Amboise on Unicorn, 130
- Butler, Hudibras, extract from, 214
- Byron, extract from, 229, 330
- Cabbage, the praise of, 47
- Camel, 182, 198, 294
- Camelopardilis, 124
- Camerarius on dolphin, 329
- Camillus, “mirror of stones,” 247
- Cammetennus, 294
- Camoens, extract from, 181
- Camphor-tree, 152
- Cancer, specific for, 189
- Canibali, home of the, 37
- “Canterbury Tales,” 276
- Capture of elephant, 145
- Carbuncle borne by dragon, 274
- Carew, extract from, 164
- Carlyle on books, 33
- Carrier pigeons, 16
- Cartazonos, 130
- “Cassandra,” extract from, 287
- “Castle of Memory,” 166
- Cat, 168, 189
- Catelan on Unicorn, 131
- Cathay, palace at, 151
- Catoblepas, 197
- Centaur, 79, 294
- Cerastes or horned viper, 298, 304
- Ceylon, mermaids of, 88
- “Ceylon, Natural History of,” 196
- Chameleon, 136, 178, 274, 296
- Chanticleer, 239
- Chares on Theriaca, 299
- Chaucer, extract from, 11, 30
- Chelidonius, 247
- Chelonites of Porta, 283
- Chester’s “Love’s Martyr,” 170
- “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” 330
- Chinese referred to by Pliny, 28
- Churchyard grass, remedial virtues of, 189
- Cinirus, 124
- Cinnabar, how produced, 137
- Coats, extract from, 120, 194
- Cobbe on the creation of monsters, 145
- Cobra stone, 298
- Coca plant, properties of, 18
- Cock, 154, 232, 238
- Cock-ale, 234
- Cockatrice, 236, 267
- Cockeram’s Dictionary, 288
- Cockle, 196
- Cogan, “Haven of Health,” 45, 167, 231, 277, 301
- Coleridge on Nightingale, 252
- Cole’s “Adam in Eden,” 48
- “Art of simpling,” 188
- Colours of dying dolphin, 330
- Comets like blazing swords, 319
- Composition of Venice Treacle, 229
- Coney-fish, 209
- Convulsions, remedy for, 167, 186
- Coolness of blood of elephant, 149
- Cornishmen tailed, 68
- Corvia, 247
- Cos, dragon of, 110
- “Cosmography,” Munster’s, 34, 97, 127, 130, 139, 149, 220
- Crabs’ eyes a remedy, 235, 335
- Crabs generating scorpions, 297
- Crane, 56, 260
- Crapaudine, or toad stone, 281
- Creatures of the fire, 295
- Crippled feet of Chinese ladies, 15
- Crocodile, 286, 294
- Crocuta, 124
- Cross on donkey’s back, 184, 186
- Crow, sagacity of, 177
- Cruelty in preparation of recipes, 48, 248, 335
- Ctesias on griffin, 276;
- on unicorn, 130
- Cubs of bear a shapeless mass, 161
- Cuckoo broth, 235
- Culverwort, 16
- “Curiosities of Heraldry,” 237
- “Cursor Mundi,” extract from, 242
- Cuttle-fish, 335
- Cuvier on phœnix, 204;
- on Pliny, 21
- “Cymbeline,” extract from, 208
- Cynamolgi, 72
- Dagon, the fish god, 93
- Daily Post, advertisement from, 90
- Dallaway on unicorn, 133
- Dead animals generating other creatures, 311
- Dead men’s bones, oil from, 278
- Deaf as an adder, 303
- “De Animalibus” of Aristotle, 31
- Death song of the swan, 229
- Death-dealing cocatrice, 237
- Decker on unicorn’s horn, 134
- Deer, 173, 270
- “De Humana Physiognomonica,” 78
- “De Miraculis,” story from, 108
- Democritus on serpent generation, 307
- Derceto, 97
- De Thaun, “Bestiary” of, 50, 124, 132, 185, 204, 292
- Devil’s-bird, 241
- “De Virtutibus Herbarum,” 160
- Diamond dissolving, 178
- Differences in aim in zoological study, 4
- Digby, “The Closet Open,” 234
- “Dirge,” extract from Gay’s, 241
- Dioscorides, writings of, 95
- “Discoverie of witchcraft,” 113
- “Display of Heraldrie,” Guillim, 52, 120
- Divining rod in use, 37
- Doctrine of Signatures, 251
- Dodœns, extract from, 309
- Dog, 8, 119, 187, 189, 270, 316
- Dog-headed men, 11, 42, 72
- Dog-king, 73
- Dolphin, 83, 289, 327
- Donkey, 184, 188
- Double-bodied animals, 65
- Dove, 177, 240
- Draconites, 247
- Dragon, 268, 274
- Dragon-maiden, 110
- Dragon and elephant, feud between, 136, 147
- Drayton, extract from, 250, 253, 259
- Dropsy, remedy for, 298
- Drunkenness, to avert, 249
- Dryden, extract from, 161, 165, 224, 227, 259, 281
- Du Bartas on barnacle-goose, 218
- Du Chaillu on gorilla, 3;
- on pygmies, 60
- Dulness of hearing, remedy for, 308
- Dust of Malta a remedy, 300
- “Dyetary” of Boorde, 46
- Eagle, 108, 223, 240, 276
- Eale of Ethiopia, 197
- Earless animals, 74
- Earthworms in medicine, 279
- Eastern love of the wonderful, 213
- Eastern Travels of John of Hesse, 81
- Eel’s blood for warts, 335
- Eels from hairs, 182
- Effects of climate on human tail growth, 71
- Egyptians and the ass, 185
- Einhorn, 130
- El Dorado of Raleigh, 44
- Elephant, 36, 107, 135, 177, 182, 213, 274, 294, 323
- Elephant-headed boy, 64
- Elizabeth, portrait of Queen, 176
- Ellison, “Trip to Benwell,” 165
- “Emblemes and Epigrames,” 210
- “Emblems” of Whitney, 136
- England, first elephant seen in, 142
- Epilepsy, cure for, 173, 190
- Ermine, the spotless, 176
- Ethiopia, land of marvels, 73, 146, 276
- “Euphues,” extract from, 262, 281
- “Evangeline,” extract from, 247, 279
- Evil spirit in donkey, 185
- Eyebright for the sight, 48, 298
- Fable, animals in, 175
- “Fairie Queen,” extract from, 80, 113, 129
- Fakirs of India mentioned by Pliny, 28
- Famous horses of antiquity, 181
- Fascination, power of, 285
- Fennel, value of, 47
- Fenton on toad stone, 282
- Ferne, “Blazon of Gentrie,” 119, 224
- Ferret, 173, 309
- Feuds, animal, 129, 136
- Filial love of storks, 259
- Fishes choosing a king, 334
- Fletcher on phœnix, 207
- Flounder the wry-mouthed, 334
- Fondness of dolphin for man, 328
- Forget-me-not, 251, 277
- Formosa men with tails, 70, 71
- Four-eyed men, 74
- Four-footed ducks and pigeons, 65
- Four-legged serpents, 306
- Fox, 167
- Foxglove, 251
- Freckles, cure for, 166
- Frenzel on Unicorn, 131
- Frog, 189, 278, 281, 308
- Fulgentius on note of Raven, 242
- Fuller, extracts from, 117
- Galen, prescription of, 291
- “Garden of the Muses,” extract from, 170
- Garnier, the loup-garou, 108
- Gay, extract from, 184, 241
- Geliot’s “Indice Armorial,” 120
- Gentleman’s Magazine, extract from, 93
- Geranites, 247
- Gerarde, extract from, 214, 309
- Gesner’s “History of Animals,” 129
- Giants, 75
- Gift of eloquence, To acquire, 249
- Gift of invisibility, 235
- Gilbert White’s “Selborne,” 180
- Glanvil, assertions of, 113, 276, 290
- Glowworm, 257
- Goat, 177, 234, 331
- “Golden Gem for Geometricians,” 262
- Gonzale on monstrous men, 79
- Gorilla mentioned by Hanno, 3, 67
- Gosse, “Romance of Natural History,” 86
- Gout, remedy for, 244, 246, 278
- Gray, oil from the, 278
- Great-lipped men, 76
- Green lizards in mediæval recipe, 8
- Grimalkin, 192
- Guiana of Sir W. Raleigh, 44
- Guillaume, “Bestiare Divin” of, 48
- Guillim’s “Display of Heraldrie,” 52, 120, 132, 176, 243
- Gujerat, lions of, 124
- Hairy men, 67
- Hairy serpents, 306
- Hakluyt’s “Voyages,” 44
- Halcyone, myth of, 258
- Halle on knowledge for Chirurgeons, 12
- “Hamlet,” extract from, 228
- Hanno’s pursuit of gorilla, 3, 67, 68
- Hare, 8, 164, 165, 184
- Harpy, 64, 146
- Hartebeest, 124
- “Haven of Health,” Cogan’s, 45, 167, 231, 277, 301
- Hawkweed, 248
- Headless men, 34, 65, 75
- Heberden’s “Antitheriaca,” 299
- Hedgehog, 168, 256
- Hentzner on horn of unicorn, 134
- Heraldic animals, 83, 127, 276, 328
- Herbert’s book of travels, 39, 176
- Herb-tea in the Spring, 274
- Herodotus, writings of, 30
- Herring, the king of fishes, 334
- Herschell on love of books, 32
- Heylyn, travels of, 42
- Heywood on stork, 259
- “Hind and Panther,” extract from, 161, 165
- Hippeau on theological treatment, 6, 49
- Hippocampus, 314
- Hippopotamus, 118, 143, 149, 314
- “Histoire des Anomalies” of St. Hilaire, 62
- “Historia Naturalis” of Jonston, 130
- “Historie of Plants,” Gerarde, 214
- “History of America,” Robertson, 79
- “History of Animals,” Gesner, 129
- “History of Serpents and Dragons,” Aldrovandus, 272
- Hog-fish, 209, 318
- Holland, English version of Pliny, 29
- Hollerius on snake stone, 298
- Homer on eagle, 225;
- on pygmies, 55
- Hoopoe, stone from, 247
- Horned men, 76, 294
- Horned viper, 298
- Hornets from dead mule, 311
- Horn of unicorn, 133, 324
- Horse, 181, 189, 236, 270, 276, 294, 297
- Horse-shoe, 184
- Hound’s-tongue, value of, 188
- Howling of dogs an evil omen, 188
- How serpents are developed, 297
- How tempests may arise, 321
- How the raven became black, 241
- How to procure toad-stone, 283
- Hudibras, quotation from, 162, 214
- Hudson on mermaids, 85
- Humble bees from dead ass, 311
- Hyæna, 152, 156;
- Men turned into, 104
- Hydrophobia, treatment of, 189, 234
- “Hymn on the Nativity,” Milton, 258
- Iliad, extract from, 225
- Incubators mentioned by Jordanus, 15
- Indian customs mentioned by Pliny, 28
- “Indice Armorial,” 120
- Indifference to animal suffering, 48, 167, 248, 335
- Inhabitants of the sea-depths, 313
- Insomnia, specific for, 177
- Instances of sagacity in birds, 177
- Invisibility, gift of, 245, 297
- Ipotayne, half-man, half-horse, 79
- Izaak Walton, extract from, 209
- Jaguars, men turned to, 104
- Jaundice, specific for, 189
- Java, home of the pygmies, 58
- Jewel-bearing toad, 281
- Job on the eagle, 224
- John of Hesse, travels of, 81
- Jonston’s “Historia Naturalis,” 130
- Jordanus, extract from, 13, 58, 73, 196, 213, 274
- Juggernaut, 15
- “Julius Cæsar,” extract from, 130
- Jumar, 124
- Keen sight of eagle, 225
- Kentish men tailed, 68, 69
- Kingfisher, 255
- “King Henry IV.,” extract from, 166, 254
- “King Henry VI.,” extract from, 161, 208, 224, 246, 266, 296, 304
- “King Henry VIII.,” extract from, 286
- “King Lear,” extract from, 254
- King of beasts, 116;
- of birds, 232;
- of fishes, 334;
- of serpents, 266
- Kite, sagacity of, 177
- “Knight of Malta,” extract from, 176
- Lady loup-garou, 109
- Lalla Rookh, extract from, 210
- Lamia, 294
- Lamb-tree, 223
- Land of the pygmies, 57
- Landseer’s animal painting, 175
- Language of beasts, to learn, 42
- Lapwing, 177
- Lark, sagacity of, 177
- Larva of tiger-moth, 306
- Laterrade on the unicorn, 131
- Lavender as a remedy, 301
- Legend of the robin, 250
- Legh, “Accedence of Armorie,” 52, 121, 144, 178, 187, 242
- Leo, “History of Africa,” 158, 271
- Leontophonos, 128
- Leopards, men turned to, 104
- Leviathan, 334
- Licking little bears into shape, 161
- Lightning, protection against, 258
- Like to like, 300
- Lily, “Euphues” of, 281
- Lion, 116, 232, 270, 276, 294, 303, 310
- Lipless men, 73
- “Livre des Creatures” of De Thaun, 50, 124
- Lizard, 8, 296
- Lomie, 197
- Long-eared men, 42, 77
- Long-headed men, 78
- Longfellow, extract from, 247, 279
- Loup-garou, 108
- Love of the marvellous, 10
- “Love’s Martyr” of Chester, 170
- “Loyal Scot” of Andrew Marvel, 69
- Luminous ink, 312
- Lupton, extract from, 282
- “Lusiad” of Camoens, 181
- Luther on whale, 334
- Lycanthropy, 101
- “Macbeth,” extract from, 192
- Macaulay on books, 32
- “Maccabees,” extract from, 145
- Macer on fennel, 47
- Mad as a March hare, 165, 166
- Mad dog, 9
- “Magick of Kirani,” 251, 270
- Maneless lions, 123
- Manticora, 156, 197
- Manufacture of mermaids, 91;
- of pygmies, 58
- Maori traditions, 61
- “Mappæ Clavicula,” extract from, 182
- Marcellus, cure of blindness, 248
- Marco Polo, travels of, 40, 144, 211
- Marlowe, extract from, 241, 255
- Marmalade for students, 46
- Martin’s “Philosophical Grammar,” 132
- Marvellous Isle of Dondum, 75
- Matthew Prior, drawing of elephant, 143
- Maundevile, extract from, 15, 16, 110, 138, 147, 151, 195, 202, 244, 276, 308, 336
- Mauritius veal, 89
- Medical zoology, 4, 45
- Mediæval theory of creation, 125
- Melancholia, its cause, 166
- Men who lived on odours, 58, 75
- Mendez Pinto the marvellous, 41
- Mermaid, 79, 80, 313
- Metacollinarum, 294
- “Merchant of Venice,” extract from, 54, 192, 229
- “Metamorphoses,” Ovid, 101
- Metempsychosis, 107
- Mewing nuns, 105
- “Midsummer night’s dream,” extract from, 83
- Milton, extract from, 226, 253, 258, 334
- “Miracles of Art and Nature,” extract from, 18, 19
- “Mirror for Mathematics,” 262
- Mirror of stones, 247
- Mithridate, 299
- Mole, 168, 172, 335
- Monoceros, 130
- “Monstrorum Historia” of Aldrovandus, 63
- Moon-worshipping elephants, 139
- Moore, Extract of, 210
- Moral-pointing treatment of zoology, 4, 6, 173, 244, 287, 293
- Moss from dead man’s skull, 278
- Moufflon in Munster’s book, 35
- Mouse, 137, 167, 194
- Mouthless men, 75, 76
- Munster’s “Cosmography,” 34, 97, 127, 130, 139, 149, 220, 306
- Music, dolphins love of, 330
- Musinus, 129
- Mussel, 196
- Mutianus on monkeys, 139
- Narwhal tusk, 324
- “Natural History,” Bacon’s, 166
- “Natural History of Norway,” 87
- “Natural History of Selborne,” 180
- “Natural Magick,” 154
- “New Jewell of Health,” 277
- Nightingale, 251
- Nile represented in old maps, 13, 36
- Noah and the raven, 242
- Noseless men, 73
- Oannes the fish-god, 96
- Odin’s wolf, 157
- Oil of swallows, 249
- Oils of medicinal repute, 278
- Olaus Magnus, writings of, 106, 320, 333
- Omens from animals, 164
- One-legged men, 42, 294
- “Orlando Furioso,” extract from, 207, 304
- “Ortus Sanitatis,” extract from, 280
- Oryges, 197
- Ostrich devouring iron, 231
- “Othello,” Extract from, 241, 282
- Ovid, the “Metamorphoses” of, 101
- Owl, 246
- Oxford life in the year 1636, 46
- Oyster, the susceptible, 196
- Panther, 149, 232
- “Paradise lost,” extract from, 334
- Parkinson, on barnacle goose, 219
- Parrot-fish, 209
- Parsee funeral customs, 13
- “Pathway to Knowledge,” extract from, 312, 336
- Peacock, 240, 254
- Pearl-fish, 332
- Pegasus, 324
- Pelican, 227, 240
- Percy Society Publications, 240
- Performing elephants, 138
- “Periplus” of Hanno, 67
- Philomela, 252
- “Philosophical Grammar,” Martin, 132
- Philostratus on pygmies, 55
- Phisiologus on the mermaid, 80
- Phœnix, 200, 240, 294
- Physician-tench, 335
- Pietro del Porco, 176
- Pillars of Hercules, 36
- Pinto, liar of first magnitude, 41
- Plagiarism, 45
- Playmate, dragon as a, 275
- Pliny’s “Natural History,” 21, 95, 123, 150, 246
- Plutarch, quotation from, 37
- Poison fish, 209
- Polypus and the significance thereof, 4, 5
- Pomphagi, 72
- Pontarf, 338
- Pontoppidan, writings of, 87
- “Poor Robin’s Almanack,” extract from, 170
- Pope on learned blockheads, 33
- Porta, extract from, 78, 122, 124, 152, 154, 160, 172, 182, 233, 283, 295, 300
- Potter’s “Booke of Phisicke,” 45
- Powdered mummy, 278
- Praise of method, 53
- Prawn, 332
- Prester John, kingdom of, 293
- “Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 92
- “Purchas his Pilgrimage,” 44, 318
- Pygmies, 54, 294
- Pyragones, 295
- “Quentin Durward,” extract from, 157
- Rabbit, 119
- Raleigh, Sir Walter, on Guiana, 44
- Ram, 198
- Ram-headed man, 64
- Rat, 194, 196, 282
- Raven, 177, 241
- Raven-stone, 244
- Ray, its love for man, 331
- Reginald Scot, “Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 113
- Rejuvenescence of the eagle, 226
- Relentless asp, 307
- “Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme,” 165, 298
- Remedies for hydrophobia, 189
- Remora, 326
- Rheumatism, remedy for, 167
- “Rich Jew of Malta,” extract from, 241
- Rings bearing toad-stone, 281
- Robbers checkmated, 9
- Robertson, “History of America,” 79
- Robin, 249
- Rochester rudeness to A. Becket, 68, 69
- Roc or Rukh, 211
- “Romance of Natural History,” Gosse, 86
- Roman mosaic at Brading, 98
- “Romeo and Juliet,” extract from, 192
- Rondoletius, book of, 319
- Roulet, the loup-garou, 109
- Sachs on unicorn, 131
- “Saducismus Triumphatus,” 113
- Sagacity of the crane, 261
- Salamander, 154, 209, 290
- Sargon, 331
- “Savage Africa,” Winwood Reade, 61
- Sciatica, specific for, 182
- Scoresby on mermaids, 84
- Scorpion, 9, 277, 278, 302, 338
- Scorpion-grass, 251, 277
- Scots Magazine, extract from, 87
- Screech-owl, 108
- Sea elephant, 323
- Sea horse, 314
- Seal, Greek superstition respecting, 289
- Serpent, 173, 178, 236, 267
- Serpentine monstrosities, 305
- Shakespeare, extract from, 11, 32, 54, 55, 130, 173, 180, 192, 208, 228, 229, 241, 246, 253, 254, 255, 266, 277, 291, 296, 304
- Shakespeare on learning, 33
- Sheep as great as oxen, 76
- Shelley on nightingale, 253
- “Ship of Fools,” 39
- Shony, the storm-dog, 191
- Shrew-ash, 180
- Shrew-mouse, 179, 234
- Silkworm, 312
- Silurus, 338
- Single-footed men, 20
- Sir Emerson Tennant on travellers’ tales, 2
- “Six Pastorals,” extract from, 250
- Skelton’s poem on birds, 240
- Sleeplessness, to cause, 251
- Snail-shells as houses, 308
- Snake charmers mentioned by Pliny, 29
- Song of the nightingale, 252
- Southey, extract from, 232
- “Speculum Mundi,” extract from, 5, 81, 88, 131, 133, 144, 180, 194, 227, 229, 252, 265, 266, 287, 320
- “Speculum Regale,” 86
- Speechless men, 73
- Spenser, quotation from, 80, 113, 129, 150, 226, 240, 281, 286, 301, 326, 327
- Sphinx, 146
- Spider, 279, 282, 308
- Squirrel, 174
- Stag-wolf, 160
- Stanley rediscovering pygmies, 3, 60
- Stellion, 154
- Stolbergk on unicorn, 131
- Stone in lapwing’s nest, 8
- Stones of magic virtue, 247
- Stork, 259
- Storm-raisers, 191
- Strabo on the pygmies, 55
- Strewing herbs, 302
- Struys’ voyages and travels, 44, 70
- Subjects dealt with by Pliny, 22
- Sucking fish or remora, 326
- “Survey of Cornwall,” extract from, 164
- Sus Marinus, 317
- Suttee an ancient usage, 14
- Swallow, 8, 240, 247, 260
- Swallow-wort, 248
- Swam-fish, 333
- Swan-song, 228
- Swift, quotation from, 37
- Symbol of resurrection, 203
- Sympathy and antipathy, 153
- Syrens, 82
- Tacitus on phœnix, 201
- Tailed men, 43, 68, 69
- “Tale of a Tub,” Swift, 37
- “Taming of the Shrew,” extract from, 180
- Tavernier on bird of paradise, 210
- Tears of the crocodile, 286
- Teasel-heads, 309
- “Tempest,” extract from, 79, 209
- Tench, the physician fish, 335
- Tennant on works of ancient travellers, 2
- Tensevetes, 294
- Ten-tailed lizard, 63
- “Theater of plants,” 219
- Theocritus on halcyon calm, 258
- Theologians, a study of zoology, 4
- Theriaca, 299
- Thoes, 124
- “Thousand notable things,” 282
- Three-eyed men, 74
- Three-headed monster, 65
- Thynne’s “Book of Emblems,” 210
- Tiger, 118, 198
- Tiger-men, 104
- “Timon of Athens,” extract from, 130
- Titian, device of, 161
- Title-pages full of interest, old, 6, 34, 272
- Titles of old books, 12
- Toad, 236, 274, 279, 308
- Toad-stone, 281
- Toad-wort, 280, 298
- To catch Sargi, 331
- Tooth-ache, remedy for, 335
- Topsell, extract from, 165, 168, 171, 179, 280
- Torpedo, 257
- Tortoise, sagacity of, 178
- Tradescant’s museum, 209
- Transfer of valuable animal properties to man, 8
- Travellers’ tales, 3, 338
- “Travels in Africa,” Barrow, 131
- Travels of Le Gouz, 326
- Treachery of the shrew mouse, 179
- “Trip to Benwell,” extract from, 165
- Troglodytes mentioned by Pliny and others, 3
- “Troilus and Cressida,” extract from, 304
- Tusser’s “Husbandry,” 301
- “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” extract from, 296
- Two-headed animals, 65
- Unchangeableness of old customs, 13, 28
- Urcheon, urchin, or hedgehog, 169
- Use of elephant in war, 137
- Value of personal observation, 199
- “Varia Historia,” extract from, 95
- Venice treacle, 9, 299
- Venomous men, 43
- Versipellis, the skin-turner, 106
- Vervain in recipe, 8
- Victoria Nyanza in old maps, 13
- Viper in medicine, 298, 299
- Virgil on bees, 261, 311
- “Voiage and Travaile” of Maundevile, 15, 16, 110, 138, 202, 308
- Warder, Dr., on bees, 261
- Wart, to cure, 182, 190
- Wasps from dead horse, 311
- Waters of Lethe, 99
- Weasel, 119, 188, 296, 318
- Weather prognostics, 82, 170
- Weeping of deer, 173
- Wehr-wolves, 99, 104
- Whales pacified with tubs, 37, 39
- When venison should be avoided, 173
- Whitney’s “Emblems,” 136
- Whooping cough, remedy for, 163, 186, 188, 308
- Why bears attack bee-hives, 163
- Winstanley’s “Book of Knowledge,” 183, 248, 312
- Wolf, 8, 118, 154, 157, 182
- Wolf-headed man, 79
- Wondrous beasts of mediæval fancy, 197
- Woolly bear, 306
- Wren, 249
- Wright’s translation of De Thaun, 50
- Xenophon on boar, 175
- Ylio of De Thaun, 51
- Yule’s translation of Jordanus, 14