Acarines, 171
Acids, butyric, Formation of, 110
glycerine and succinic, Formation of, 110
lactic, Fermentation of, 110
tartaric, 105
Acrobothrium, 14
Acton, Lord, Library of, 214
Africa: Native children infected with malaria, 162
Native population permeated with the malarial parasite, 152
West Coast of, Average of two malarial attacks a year amongst British soldiers on the, 131
Agassiz, A., 20, 77
Alcohol, Fermentation of, 110
Alexander’s Bucephalus, 84
Algæ, 24, 25
Absence of, below 200 fathoms, 21
Allman, Professor, 22, 67
Amblyomma hebræum conveys the heartwater disease in sheep, 172, 173
America, Distribution of malaria in, 132
Gifts of the Universities of, 185
Anodonta, 4
Anopheles, 144, 145
bifurcatus, 147
does not fly far by itself, 161
Eggs of, 148
Larvæ of, 148
Life-history of, 148, 149
maculipennis (claviger), 147, 148
Male, 149
nigerrimus, 158
nigripes, 147
Position of, 159
Pupæ of, 148
Anthrax, 120, 121
produced by Bacillus anthracis, 121
Appendicularia, 39
Arbois, 103, 106
Argas persicus conveys the chicken disease of Brazil, 173
Aristoeopsis, Antennæ of, 37
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 1
Arragonite, 1
Arripo, 4
Arsenic-eaters of the Tyrol, 124
Austen, Map of the geographical distribution of the tsetse fly by, 166
Mortality amongst the horses in the Abyssinian campaign caused by the tsetse fly, 166
On the distribution of the fly, 176
Australia, Distribution of malaria in, 132

Baciocchi, Princess, 118
Bacillus anthracis, Behaviour and life-history of, 121
susceptible to variations of temperature, 121
butyricus, 110
typhosus, 178
Bacilli, Aerobic, 111
Anaerobic, 111
Bache, 19
Bailey, 19
Balard, 104
Barrow Channel, Mussel-beds of 6, 7
Bastianelli, 143
Bateson, W., Materials for the study of variation, 74
Researches on Mendel’s law, 211
Bathochordæus charon, named by Chun, 39
Bathybius, 21
Bathynomus, Eyes of the, 35
Bathysaurus, Blackness of the mouth of, 37
Battipaglia, malarious district of, 151, 152
Beelzebub called Lord of Flies, 173
Benazrek mated with Mulatto, 85
Benthos often stalked, 31, 32
Berlin, University of, State endowments of the, 185
Bernard, Claude, 117
Berryman, Lieutenant, 21
Berzelius, 109
Besançon, 102, 106
Royal College of Franche-Comté, 104
Bidder, G. P., Experiments with weighted bottles on the intensity of fishing, 61
Biffen, Mr., Discovery that susceptibility to rust in wheat is Mendelian, 211
Bignami, 143
Billiers, Mussel-beds of, 6
Biot, 106, 107
Blackwater fever, 170
Bos, Ritzema, Experiments of in-breeding with rats, 92
Bouché, Description of the larva of the house-fly, 174
Bouguer, 18
Boutan, 14
Boyle, Robert, 18, 120
Brandt, Professor, 57, 66
British sea-fisheries. See Sea-Fisheries, British
Bronn, 88
Bruce, Colonel D.: Female tsetse fly does not lay eggs, 166
Buache, Philippe, 16
Buchanan, John Y., of the Challenger, 21
Buddha, Mother-of-pearl images of, 2
Bulman, 87
Buvma, Sleeping-sickness in, 169
Burchell’s zebras, 82
Stripes of, 82, 85
Busoga, Sleeping-sickness in, 169
Butterflies, Hybridizing, 95
Byerly Turk, 93

Cable, Recovery of the, by Fleeming Jenkin, 22
Cable-laying: Survey by Lieutenant Berryman, of the Arctic, 21
by Captain Pullen, of the Cyclops, 21
by Dr. Wallich, in the Bulldog, 21
Cæsar, Julius, and British pearls, 5
Favourite horse was polydactylous, 84
Caird, Sir J., 45
Cambridge, 183
Agriculture, Department of, conducted on the most practical and progressive lines, 193
Experimental farm, upheld by County Councils of Cambridgeshire and nine neighbouring counties, 193
Journal of Agricultural Science, established in 1904, 213
Need of Laboratory for, 213
Professorship of, founded in 1899, 193
Anglo-Saxon, Professorship of, 206
Appeal of authorities of, 184, 204
Archæology, Disney professorship of, founded 1851, 187
Architecture, school of, Desirability of establishing, a, 208
Botanic garden, 193
Botany housed in a separate building in 1904, 192
Cavendish laboratory, opened in 1874, 191, 210
Chemical laboratory, built in 1887, 192
Chemistry, physiological, Chair of, needed, 211
Chinese, Chair of, 190
Chinese library, Proper care of, renders the permanency of the professorship a necessity, 205
Gift of Sir Thomas Wade, 190
Colleges, Analysis of the resources of, 196
Collegiate system, 196
Corporate income of the seventeen, 197
Day training, 195
Fall of agricultural rent on incomes of, 198
Fellows, Average stipend of, 199
Fellowships and stipends of the heads of houses, 197
Fellowships, Number of prize, is small, 199
Expenses of estate management of the, 197
Income of, £300,000 a year, 185
Scholarships, 198
Tuition Fund, 197
Commission of, 1850, 187
Diplomas in forestry, 195
in geography, 195
in mining engineering, 195
Downing Professor of the Laws of England, 188
Economics, school of, Need of lectureships in the, 206, 207
Tripos in, founded, 190
Endowments of the University of, 184
Engineering laboratories opened during the tenure of the professorship by Dr. Ewing in 1894, 191
New wing added in 1899 through the generosity of Mrs. Hopkinson, 192
Ethnology and anthropology, Recognition of, 187
Examinations, Inadequate rooms for, 213
Expenditure for the maintenance of buildings and staffs, 196
in 1904, 201
on buildings devoted to science since 1862, 195
French and German professorships, Need of, 206
Historical Tripos founded in 1875, 189
History, Ancient, Professorship of, founded in 1898, 189
Income, University, 200, 201
of lecturers, 202
of professors, 201
of readers, 202
of teachers, 202
Indian Languages Tripos, founded in 1879, 190
Latin, Professorship of, 189
Law School, 188
Law Tripos replaces the ‘Civil Law Classes’ in 1858, 188
Library, J. W. Clark’s appeal on behalf of the, 213
Lord Acton’s, 214
Library, Needs of, Donation of the Goldsmiths’ Company for the, 213
Mathematics, Newall telescope, 209
Mechanical Sciences Tripos, First examination for the, held in 1894, 191
Mechanism and applied science, Professorship of, established in 1875, 191
Medicine, School of, 188, 189
Tropical, Diploma of, instituted in 1904, 188
Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos, founded in 1886, 190
Metallurgical laboratory, Need of a, 210
Military studies, Provision for, 195
Moral Science Tripos, New avenues to an honours degree opened in 1851 by the, 187, 188
Museums for natural sciences commenced in 1863, 188
Additions to, made in 1877, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1890, 188
Natural Sciences Tripos, 188
Needs of the various departments, 204
Nobel Prize, Gift of the, by Lord Rayleigh, 191
Observatory, building commenced in 1822, 191
Oriental Languages Tripos, founded in 1895, 190
Pathology, Professorship of, founded in 1883, 188
Physics, Chair of experimental, founded in 1871, 191
Held in succession by Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, and J. J. Thomson, 191
Physiology, Professorship of, founded in 1883, 188
Professors and lecturers of other Universities educated at, 203
Proto-zoology, Establishment of a chair of, by the aid of the Quick bequest, 211
Psychology, Journal of, first published, in 1904, 209
Psychology, Physiological, in 1877, 208
Psycho-physical Laboratory, Efforts made in 1877 to establish a, 208
Psychophysics, Study of, 209
Public Health, Diploma of, instituted in 1875, 188
Sadlerian professorship of pure mathematics, founded in, 1857, 188
Sanskrit, Professorship of, founded in 1867, 190
Sedgwick Museum, 210
Semitic Languages Tripos, founded in 1878, 190
Slade professorship of fine art, founded in 1869, 189
Surgery, Professorship of, founded in 1883, 188
Whewell professorship of international law created in 1867, 188
Zoology, Professorship of, founded in 1866, 188
Cambridgeshire, County Councils of, and nine neighbouring counties, assist in upholding the agricultural experimental farm, 193
‘Cane moulière,’ 6
Cardium edule, 7
Carinaria captured by the Valdivia, 39
Carnegie, A., and Morley, John, Gift of Lord Acton’s library to Cambridge University, 214
Carpenter, W. B., 20
Carter, R. M., House-fly harbours a larval nematode, named Habronema muscæ by, 181
Tsetse flies not confined to Africa, but also found in South Arabia, 178
Cavendish, 18
Cecil, Lord Arthur, 85
Cephalodiscus, 41
Cercaria as nuclei of pearls, 4, 5
Cercariæum, 6
‘Charbon’ or ‘sang de rate,’ Disease of, in cattle, 120
Charrin, M., Suggested explanations of telegony, 79
Chicken, Disease of, Brazil, conveyed by the Argas persicus, 173
Cholera, 122
Chinchon, Countess of, Quinine introduced into Europe in 1640 by the, 139
Cured of tertian fever by Peruvian bark, 139
Cholera, Investigations into, 117
Christophers, S. R., Children of African natives infected with malaria, 152
Chun, Eyes of fishes, in his account of the voyage of the Valdivia, 35
‘Circaria.’ See Cercaria
Clark, J. W., Appeal on behalf of the Cambridge University Library, 213
Cocoons, Value of, 114
Cod, Fertilization of the floating ova of the, 46
Colombo, 11, 13
Columba livia, 89
Cornalia and Filippi, Corpuscles of, 115
Crawford’s, Donald, Committee on the scarcity of herrings, 1904, 43
Cromwell, O., Death of, from a ‘bastard tertian ague,’ 133
Crossland, C., 14
Ctenophores, Deep-sea, 32
Culex, Position of, 159
Culicidæ, 156
Anophelina, 156
Culicina, Sub-families of, 156
Female alone that bites, 161
Cusanus, Nicolaus, 17

Dana, 19
Dante, A., on flies, 167
Darley, Arabian, 93
Darwin, 76, 187
Breeding experiments with pigeons, 89
on pangenesis, 80
on stripes of a foal bred by, 85
Day-mosquito, 163
De Geer: First description of the transformation of the house-fly, 174
De Pourtalès, 19
Diarrhœa, Epidemic, 179
Infantile, 180
Diatoms, 31
Diptera, Characteristics of, 156
Species of, Forty thousand estimated as only a tithe by D. Sharp, 156
Dispharagus nasutus (Rud.), 181
Distomum duplicatum, 4
Dôle, 101, 103
Donati, 18
Dourine disease caused by T. equiperdum, 168
Drapers’ Company, Promised donation of the, for establishing an agricultural laboratory, 213
Dubois, 15
on pearls, 5, 8
Dumas, Lectures of, 104
Report on the epidemic of the destruction of silkworms, 113, 114
Durham, Captain, 22

Edwards, A. Milne, 22
Eider-duck, 5
Ellis, Captain, 17
Emin Pasha on the importance of mosquito-nets, 141
Empusa muscæ, 181
England, Malaria in, 133
Equidæ, 82
Reversion hypothesis in the, 84
Eryonidæ, 41
Europe, Distribution of malaria in, 131, 132, 133, 134
Ewart, Cossar, 67
Experiments in heredity, 74

Fen districts, Malaria in the, 133
Fermentation, Acetous, of wine, 113
Alcoholic, 110
First physical view of, 109
Lactic acid, 110
Presence of oxygen, 109
Processes of putrefaction and decay, 109
regarded as a contact action, 109
Studies on, 119
Vitalistic theory, 109
Opposition against the, 109
Yeast-cells, 109
Fever in India, 129
Redwater, conveyed by Rhipicephalus annulatus, 172
conveyed by Ixodes reduvius in Europe, 172
Rhodesian, conveyed by Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, 172
conveyed by Rhipicephalus shipleyi, 172
Rocky Mountain, 171
Spotted, 171
Texas, 170
Tick, 170
Yellow, Cause of the spread of, 163
Organism not known which causes, 163
Filaria, 141
Elephantiasis, 159
bancrofti, 180
immitis, existing in the heart of dogs, 180
nocturna, 157
Round-worms in the disease of, 157
Filariasis, Disease of, 157
Elephantiasis, a variety of, 157
Filhol, on luminous slime, 33
Filippi, on origin of pearls, 4
Flacherie disease in silkworms, 116
Flies. See also under Anopheles, Culicidæ, Diptera, Filaria
Beelzebub called Lord of, 173
Blue-bottle fly, 167
Danger of, 174
Destruction of, creolin deters flies from ovipositing, 182
‘Fly-belts,’ 166
House-fly, 167
Agent in the dissemination of cholera and enteric fevers, 178
Distribution of the, 176
First described and named Musca domestica by Linnæus, 174
Larva of, described by Bouché, 174
of the, turning into a dark brown pupa or chrysalis, 175
Larvæ of, Food of the, 175
Life-history of, 175
Transformation of, described by de Geer, 174
Meat, or blow-fly, Musca vomitoria, Maggot in the Larva of, 175
Parasites of, 181
Dispharagus nasutus (Rud.), 181
Empusca muscæ, 181
Habronema muscæ, 181
Nematodum sp. (?), 181
Tsetse fly conveys sleeping-sickness, 169
Female does not lay eggs, 166
Larva of, 166
Pupa of, 166
Geographical distribution of the, 166
(Glossina), 164
Habits of, 165
Mortality amongst the horses in the Abyssinian Campaign perhaps caused by the, 166
Prey of the, is the big game of Africa, including crocodiles, 167
and bacilli, 179
Epidemic diarrhœa caused by, 179
Infantile diarrhœa caused by, 180
and disease: Agencies for carrying disease-causing organisms, 155
Agencies for transmitting the plague bacillus, 155, 177
Agencies for carrying Egyptian ophthalmia, and the ‘sore-eye’ so common in Florida, 155, 156, 177
Agencies for carrying the bacilli of enteric fever, 155
Agencies for carrying the Bacillus typhosus, 178
Agencies for disseminating cholera, 177
Cause of woolsorter’s disease, 155, 177
Musca domestica carry the bacillus of anthrax, 155, 177
Flounder, Fertilization of the eggs of the, 46
Foraminifera, 31
Forbes, Edward, 19, 23
Foster, Sir Michael, 188
Fowl, Wild ancestor of the Barn-door, 90
Frederick, Cæsar, 9
Fulton, Dr., Diminution of plaice and lemon-soles due to their spawning only in deep water, 51
Increase of dabs due to their spawning in protected waters, 51, 52

Gabes, Gulf of, 8
Gadow, H., 88
Galle, 13
Gall-sickness caused by T. theileri, 168
Gallus bankiva, 90
Galton, F., on prepotency as a sport, 95
Gambier group, 14
Garner, 5
Garstang, W., Transplantation of small plaice, 57
Evidence before the House of Lords Committee in 1904, 63
Gas, Invention of the word, 108
Gay-Lussac on racemic acid, 105
Generali: House-fly harbours a larval nematode called Nematodum sp. (?), 181
Generation, Spontaneous, 111, 112
Giard on pearls, 5, 8, 14
Globigerina, 31
Glossina morsitans, named by Westwood, 164
palpalis, conveyer of sleeping-sickness, 170
tachinoides, 178
Gnome, Invention of the word, 108