Diversions of a NaturalistLankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
History
Diversions of a Naturalist
Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
Natural history
Hierapolis, where Atargatis was worshipped, 352
Hopkins, Mr. Gowland, his experiments on diet, 294
Hôtel du Planet, good food at, 164
House sparrow trained to be a songster, 207
Houssay, M. Frederic, his discovery of the origin of the goose
and barnacle story in paintings on Mykenæan vases, 131 _et seq._
Huxley and Cuvier on the distinctive quality of man, 272
and Owen, their controversy, 236
Hybridization, infection of plants by, 403
Hydra tuba breaks up into jelly-fish, 97
Idiosyncrasy as to poisonous quality of fish, 358
Infant, crying of the human, a speciality, 272
Infantile diarrhœa, 300
Inflammation, nature of, 349
Insects, many guided by the sense of smell, 209
Instinct and reason in courtship, 205
Instincts, 267
Intestine, the large, a disharmony, 228
Japan, the umbrella pine of, 330
Javanese story of a bird produced by a shell-fish, 138
Jaw, lower surface of the Piltdown, compared with that of man and
of chimpanzee, 282
from Moulin-Quignon, 289
Heidelberg, compared with Piltdown, 286
Piltdown, 283
Jelly-fish, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97
Jelly-fishes which sting, 95
Juniper, the, 308, 330
Junipers, 330
Kauri resin, similar to amber, 73
Kowalewsky, the Russian zoologist, 11
Labouchere, Mr. Henry, his view on food, 293
Lacteals, or milky lymphatic vessels, 333
Lampyris noctiluca, the common glow-worm, 233
Lancelet, the, 2
Langouste, 99
Larch tree, the common, 307, 319
Laughter in apes, 241
Leather-jackets, the grubs of the Crane-fly, 221
Lebanon, cedar of, 320
Lepas anatifera, the ship's barnacle, 109
Leprosy and fish-diet, 357
favoured by same conditions as scurvy, 296
Lervik (Norway), 3
Lights, nocturnal, attract insects and birds, 230, 232
Lily of St. Bruno, 166
Limpet and cockle compared, 146, 148
Lizard, the parachute, is the model upon which the heraldic dragon
is founded, 382
Lobsters, 99, 100
Loch Fyne herrings, their food, 155
Longevity of a sea-anemone, 86
Lophohelia, 9
Luciola italica, the fire-fly of South Europe, 233
Luges, or mountain sledges, 167
Lug-worm, 79
Luminous bacteria, 158
grub of Paraguay called the railway-beetle, 234
or luminescent insects, 232
Lyell, Mr., his Bill for the preservation of the
Great Grey Seal, 32, 34
Sir Charles, used the term "missing link," 276
Lymph, amount of, in man's body, 333, 348
and lymphatic system, 332 _et seq._
Lymphatic vessels of the human arm (figure), 334
Lymph-hearts, 337
Magi, the priests of Zoroaster, 368
Magic, history of, 369, 370
sympathetic, 369
Male, the seeker and wooer, 185, 190
Man, his conscious memory, 187
primitive, courtship of, 195
Mandrill, beautiful colours of the, 205
Man's modern method of courtship, 215
structure compared with that of the gorilla and
chimpanzee, 239, 240, 241
Manu, the Indian Noah, 353
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