Burnett, Sir William, by mistake introduces in the Navy juice of the
sour-lime in place of lemon-juice, 236
Burning water, fountains of, 225
Butterflies of the genus Vanessa, 97
several different species of white and of blue, 97
several species united to form one larger kind–a genus, 95
species of, 94
the kinds of, 94
Caloric, an assumed entity, 186
Cannel (or candle) coal, 219
Carbon, weight of, annually discharged over London, 218
Carboniferous system, the, 221
Cats, male, with blue eyes are deaf, 120
Cause of survival in the struggle for life, 118, 119
Cave of Altamira, 28, 47
of Brassempouy, 51
of Combarelles, 32
of Font de Gaume, 29, 32
of Laugerie basse, 46
of Lortet, 1
of Marsoulas (Haute Garonne), 43
of Mas d'Azil, 43
of Niaux (Ariège), 43
of St. Michel d'Arudy, 45
Caves, pictures on walls of, 7
Census of species of animals, 129
Chick, Dr. Harriette, secretary, and Dr. Hopkins, F.R.S., chairman,
of a committee investigating accessory food-factors, 234
Chinese "great monad," 210
Circle, how to divide it so as to describe a Tomoye, 214
_Citrus medica limonum_, the lemon, 236
_acida_, the West Indian sour-lime, 236
Coal, 217-222
mines, annual output of, 221
Coal-tar, 224
Coffer-fish, 130
Cold, action of extreme, in preventing chemical combination, 177
Copan, circular altar-stone from, divided by an S-shaped trough so as
to resemble the Tomoye, 213
Correlated characters or structures, 119, 125
Crab, common shore, variations in, 118
Crag, the Red, of Suffolk, 38
the Norwich, 38
Crayfish, species of, 120
Cromagnard race, 8, 9
Cross-breeding of races, 140-156
Crystal Palace, the, sixty years ago, 84
Decorative design, 200-208
Deer, the picture of the Three, 13
Dewar, Sir James, his important experiments on action of cold and of
light on phosphorescent bacteria, 188
Diplodocus, a gigantic reptile, 85, 91
Discoveries falsely announced, and others misrepresented or
unnoticed by newspapers, 173, 176
Dolphins (oceanic colour-changing fish), 130
Equus the horse genus, the history of, 103
Exuberances of non-significant growth, 127, 130
Fat boys of journalism, 173
Fertilization, resistance to hybrid, 136, 137, 138
Fish drawn between horse's legs, 23
Fishes, examples of strangely-shaped, 130
Fleas, species of, 105
Flowers of tan survive desiccation, 179
Food, the accessory factors in, 233
Fylfot, the, 191
Gammadion, the, 191
Geometrical properties of the Tomoye, 216
Germ variation, a constant process, 112
Gigantic reptiles, 85, 87
Gigantosaurus, discovery of, in Africa, 87
upper-arm bone of, compared with that of an elephant and of man, 88
Gills of crayfishes, 121
a new one discovered by a lady student at Oxford, 123
Glacial period, 6
Goose engraved on reindeer antler, 49
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