Some diversions of a naturalist / by Ray Lankester.

  • Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929.
Date:
[1925]
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Credit: Some diversions of a naturalist / by Ray Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Insects, many guided by the sense of smell, 209 Instinct and reason in courtship, 205 Javanese story of a bird produced by a shell-fish, 138 Jelly-fish, 91, 94-7 Jelly-fishes which sting, 95 Kauri resin, similar to amber, 73 Kowalewsky, the Russian zoolo- gist, 11 Lancelet, the, 2 Langouste, 99 Lepas anatifera, the ship’s bar- nacle, 109 Lervik (Norway), 3 Lily of St. Bruno, 166 Limpet and cockle compared, 146, 148 Lobsters, 99-100 Loch Fyne herrings, their food, 155 Longevity of a sea-anemone, 86 Lophohelia, 9 Luges, or mountain sledges, 167 Lug-worm, 79 Luminous bacteria, 158 Lyell, Mr., his Bill for the pre- servation of the Great Grey Seal, 32, 34 Male, the seeker and wooer, 185, 190 Man, his conscious memory, 187 primitive, courtship of, 195 Man's modern method of court- ship, 215 Mandrill, beautiful colours of the, 205 Mate-hunger, Mr. Pycraft on, 191-2 Max Muller, Professor, his sug- gestion as to the origin of the belief that barnacles give rise to geese, 139-41 Mechanisms of the mind, dis- tinguished, 211-12 Memory, unconscious and con- scious, distinguished, 212, 214 Mend£s, Catulle, the French poet, and jelly-fish, 97 Milton, the poet, his belief in spon- taneous generation, 126 Mind of man differs from that of animals, 213 Molluscs, alternate swelling of and shrinking of parts of the body, 149 and their shells, 142 et seq. Moray, Sir Robert, on the trans- formation of the ship's barnacle into a goose, 115, 127 Moth vapourer, male pursues female living in water and is drowned, 210 Muller, I wan, and the microscope, 28 Murray, Sir John, at Millport, T55 Music a late acquisition of man, 208 Mussel, the edible, 145 Naples, 2, 52, 203 Naturalist on the seashore, 25 Nature reserves, 13 Nauplius, the young form or larva of crustaceans, 105-7 Nero, the Roman Emperor, and amber, 71 Norman, Rev. Canon, 3 Norway, 1 Noverre, “ the Shakespeare of the dance,” 176 “ Nullius in verba,” the motto of the Royal Society, 128 Octopus, courtship of the, 203 Odours as attractions and guides in courtship, 209 Opal, 57 Orchestia, a sand-hopper, 153 Ovules and sperms, 181 Oysters growing on trees, 145 Paradisia liliastrum, 166 Pavlova, Madame Anna, 170, 178 Pebbles of the seashore, 55-63 Penguins, method of courtship of, 196 Pentargon Cove and a young Grey Seal, 35, 40 Perfumes produced by male butterflies, 210 use of, by man, 209