Conjugation in lower forms of life, 183 Conjurers still believed by some to conjure spirits and deal in the black art, 365 Connective tissue, 335 Conscious and unconscious minds, 262-263 Consciousness, arrival of, 213 Contagious magic and fish-eating, 354 Copal gum, similar to amber, 73 Copalite found at Highgate, 76 Coprolite on the Suffolk shore, 59 Coral, white, 3, 9 Corals related to sea-anemones, 89 Corethra, the plume fly, its transparent larva, 27, 224 Corpus Christi, festival of, and dancing, 174 Corpuscles, colourless, of the blood, 349 red, of the blood, 347 Correvon, M., his garden, 163 Corundum pebbles give flame-flash when rubbed together, 67 Courting dress of water-fleas, 205 Courtship, 180-215 methods of, in man not inherited or instinctive, 211 Crabs, 98, 104, 105 Crane-fly, 216 _et seq._ Crawfish and crayfish, 99 Crustaceans, use of the word, 98 Cucujos, the, a phosphorescent beetle of South America, 234 Cupressus sempervirens, the common cypress, 330 Cyancæa, the stinging jelly-fish of our coast, 95 Cycads, an order allied to conifers, 309 Cypress tree, the, 330 Cyprus and coffers, 330 and Crete, ancient vases from, with pictures of transition from barnacle to goose, 130, 133 Daddy-Long-Legs, 216 _et seq._ sometimes used as a name for the spider-like Opilio, 220 Dagon, the fish-god, 352 Dancing and science, 169 _et seq._ of birds and spiders, 171 various kinds of, 172, 173, 177, 178 Daphne, the Alpine, 166 Darwin and Lord Morton's mare, 400 Dawson, Mr. Charles, discovers the missing link, 284 Deodar, the Himalayan cedar, 320 Destruction of native animals in England, 15 Dewar, Sir James, on suspended animation of luminous bacteria, 158 Diet, certain substances necessary to be healthy, 294 Diptera or two-winged flies, divisions of, 222 Disharmonies in animal structure and habit, 227 in man's structure, 228 Display in courtship, 197 _et seq._ Divination, 371 by the forked twig, 384 by throwing a rod into the air, 383 varieties of methods in, 371 Divining-rod, the, 383 Dormouse, easily loses the skin of its tail, 219 Dousers and dousing, 385 dishonest variety of, 388 or water-finders tested by a committee, 392 some honest, 387 Dragon, the heraldic, and the parachute lizard, 382 Dredge, the naturalist's, 1 Duclaux, Professor, his advice as to diet, 299 Dunwich, a submerged city, 50 Earth-worm, cœlom of the, 338 Educability, 213, 268-269 Elaterids, a family of beetles, 225 phosphorescent species of, 234 Emperor moth, attractive smell of female, 209 Eoanthropus Dawsoni, the Piltdown Hominid, 283 Erosion of the coast, 51 Euphausia, a phosphorescent shrimp, picture of, 154 Evergreens, our native, list of, 312 Ewart, Prof. Cossar, his experiments on telegony, 400