Diversions of a NaturalistLankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
History
Diversions of a Naturalist
Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
Natural history
Experience, learning by individual, 212
Expression by the face, greater in man than apes, 273
Eyes of deep-sea animals, 93
Fabre, his opinion of animal intelligence, 197, 198
Fainting, men, at sight of blood, 345
Fast days, 351, 352
Felixstowe beach, 56
erosion of the coast at, 50
large piece of amber found at, 70
Fertilization, 180
Fir, Scots, 305, 321
Silver, or Abies pectinata, 315
used to build the Trojan horse, 306
Fire-flies of Southern Europe, 233
Firestones, 65
Fish, a young, saves Manu from the Deluge, 353
and Christian ornament, 356, 357
and fast days, 351 _et seq._
as the symbol of Christ, 354
certain, poisonous to every one, 358
modelled in gold, life size, dug up near the Black Sea, 353
poisons, 357, 358
some, poisonous only to certain individuals, 358
worship of, and the fish-god, 352
Fish-worship of the ancient Greek Orpheists, 355
Flame, flash of, produced under water, 66
produced by rubbing two quartz pebbles together, 65
Flame-seeking insects, 229, 230
Flies, two-winged, or Diptera which are phosphorescent, 234
various kinds of, 222, 223
Fly as dirt carrier, 300
Food, constituents of, 292
Foot of man and his upright carriage, 243
Foot-jaws of crab and lobster, 104
Forbes, Edward, a sketch by, 159
Fowl, the common, 43
France gained courage and self-respect through Pasteur, 415
French cookery, sham, in Switzerland, 165
Fresh water jelly-fish, 91, 92
Fridays and fish-eating, by Jews as well as Christians, 352
Frog, blue variety of the edible, 163
Futurists, 23
Galliformes, an order of birds, 43
Geese, drawings of, by ancient Mykenæan artists, modified to resemble
barnacles, 133, 134
Gelinotte, 46
Geology and living toads in rocks, 379
Geomancy, 372
Gerard the herbalist on the transformation of ship's barnacles into
geese, 121
Giard, Professor; discovery of a phosphorescent disease in
sand-hoppers, by him, 156
Gingko tree of Japan, 309
Giraldus Cambrensis and the production of geese from timber, 120
Glass-like marine animals, 92
Glow-worms, 233
Goose-tree, the, as drawn by Gerard in 1597, 123
Gopher tree of the Bible, 330
Gosse, Mr. Philip Henry, 83
Greek dancing, 175, 176
name-gods or totems, 356
Grouse, black, red, and others, 45
the, and allied birds, 41
Gummi-horn, the, 160
Hæma, the red part of blood, 339, 347
Hæmoglobin, or blood-red, 347
in the blood of the larva of thebig black midge (Chironomus), 223
in Bonellia, 11
in the coiled pond-snail, 346
Hæmolymph, the proper name for vertebrate blood, 339, 346
Hallucination and self-hypnotism, 372
Hamingia, a green worm, 10-11
Hamlet and superstition, 361
Hampstead Heath, 16
Hands and feet, size and shape of, as indicating character, 375
Hardanger Fiord, 3
Haruscipation, 372
Heart-urchin, 80
Henslow, of Cambridge, 59
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