France took a "plebiscite" to determine who, in the general estimation of the French people, was the greatest Frenchman of the nineteenth century--the century which included the first Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Gambetta. The vote was given by some millions, and resulted in a majority for Louis Pasteur. Would Englishmen have shown such discernment? Such a man is absolutely necessary as the head of any great institute which exists for the purpose of scientific discovery. Such men, smaller it may be, but of the same inspiring quality, are the only men fit to be university professors. It is because there are still such men at the Institut Pasteur that it remains a great seat of discovery. It is because they have not such men, and that there is no intelligent attempt to get them, that many wealthy institutions in our own country fail to produce scientific fruit. 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