- 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.
- 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.