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B—C
Bullfinch, 748 Bulrush, 587 Burbank, Luther (1849-1926), 304,
376
Burchell’s zebra, 235
Burma, 585
Bursaria, 566, 567
Bush turkey, 735
Bustard, great, 377
Butcher’s broom, 222
Buttercup, 158, 159, 159
Butterfly, 576; African Swallowtail, 221, 576 ; Monarch, 573 ; Pierine, 37 Viceroy, 573; White Admiral, 573
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CAacToBLastus, 611
Cactus, 541, 582
Caddis-fly, 461
Caisson disease, 7
Cake-urchin, 135
Calamites, 436, 443
Calanus, 595
Calf, abnormally developed, 316 ; stomach of, 476
California, 200, 490, 610
Calluna vulgaris, 559, 560
Calocalanus plumulosis, 515
Calvin, John (1509-1564), 825
Cambrian period, 1096, 412-415, 416, 419, 421, 447, 198, 420
Camel, 110, 244, 217, 244, 471
Cameroon rain-forest, 544
Camouflage in nature, 570
Camphor, 469
Camptosaurus, 449
Canada, 410, 412 ;
Canary, 748
Canary Islands, 374
Cancer, 655-657, 657
Candour, 832-834
Canidae, 231, 232. See Dog
Canis aureus, 231
— lupus, 231, 239
Cannel coal, 437
Canti, Dr. R. G., 30, 678
Cape Verde Archipelago, 249
Capillaries, 26, 36, 39; regulation
Arctic, 549
of, 64 Carbohydrates, 48 Carbon, 48; circulation of, in
nature; 184, 579
Carbon dioxide, 22, 64; and plants, 154, 155. See also Respiration
Carboniferous period, 196, 4155 418, 436, 439, 448, 462, 490, 198, 420
Carebara, 701
Caribbean Sea, 516
Carniola, 551
Carnivora, 111, 231
Carnivores, aquatic, 471, 532
Carp, 89, 725
Carpel, 433
“ Carriers ” of disease, 624.
Cartilage, 32
lan Sea, 538, 599
Castle, Prof. W. E., 369, 370, 371
Catfish, 539, 570
Catkins, 160
Cats, 111; classification of, 230; digestive organs of, 505 ; play in, 749-750
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Cattle, 110 ; breeding of, 310-313 ; ecology and, 613-614; in Neolithic age, 11 .
Caucasus, 397, 491
Cave bear, 495
Cave hyena, 495
Cave-lion, 495
Cave men. See Homo
Caves, animal life in, 551-552
Caytonia, 463 :
Cells, 28-33, 29, 32, 33, 43, 53, 59, 75, 76. 78, 89, 153, 269. 568; co-operations of, 403; germ (See Gametes) ; length of life of, 31 ; movements of, 29, 678-679; multiplication of, 31, 173, 282-283 ; number of in body, 32; of blood, 33; of plants, 155, 156; stages in aggregation of, 172, 173
Cenozoic era, 196, 197, 446, 461, 464, 465, 468, 469, 472, 476, 484, 198, 420, 471; climate during, 469-470
Centipede, 128-129
Central Africa, 444
— America, 162, 188, 206, 490, 629
— Asia as the region of man’s origin, 484
Central nervous system, 68
Centropages, 595
Centrosomes, 283
Cephalaspis, 423
Cephalopoda, 132, 421-499, 523, 595
Ceratium, 403
Cercaria, 142, 142
Cerebellum, 87, 724, 733, 765
Cerebral cortex, 85, 731-732, 764769 — hemispheres, 731, 85, 729
Cetacea, 111, 111, 471
Cetorhinus, 514
Ceylon, 304, 544
Chaetoceras, 595
Chalicotheres, 473, 471
Chalk, biological origin of, 171
Challenger expedition (1872-1876), 187, 517
Challengeria, 514
Chameleon, 114, 570
Chamois, 550
Chaparral, 590
Charles II of Spain (1661-1700), 299
Charr, 375
Cheese-mite, 567
Chellean culture, 492, 493
Chemical sense of fishes, 727
Chemistry of living substance, 47, 578-579
Chemotherapy, 632
Chestnut, 590
Chiasmodus, 515
Chicken-pox, 630
Childhood, 98-102
Children of late marriages, 313
Chimeras, grafts and, 278-280, 279
Chimpanzee, 236, 248, 249, 754755, 756, 757, 821, 859, 479, 754, 757, 758; embryo of, 95; 251 ; hands of, 249
China, early man, in, 252, 859
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Chinese Primrose, mutations in the, 351
Chirocephalus, 553
Chiroleptes, 543
Chiroptera, 111, 471
Chitin, 379
Chlamydomonas, 173
Chlorodendron, 403
Chloroform, 613
Chlorophyll, 154, 379, 569, 578
Cholera, 625, 624
Chordata, 118
Chorion, 96
Chromosomes, 264, 282-310, 324, 363, 285, 301, 302, 303; and S€x, 337-349; function of, 284-288; in plants, 286; mapping the, 300-303
Chrysocyon, 231
— jubatus, 231
Chyme, 54
Cichlide, 539
Cider and poisoning, 640
Cilia, 42, 92, 117, 131, 172, 671
Ciliates, 271, 402, 567
Cinnamon, 469
Circulation of the blood, 26, 37; evolution of, 405
— — elements in nature, 184, 579581 ; of carbon, 578; of nitrogen, 184, 579; of phosphorus, 61 :
Cirrothauma, 515
Civet, 111
Clacton, 492
Clairvoyance, table-tapping, and telekinesis, 842-845
Clam, 526, 595
Classification of living things, roII, 105-106, 230
Clausthal, 552
Clavellina, 331, 332, 332
Cliff-swallow, 550
Climate, changes in, 396-400, 443446, 469-470, 486-492
Climatius, 423
Cliona, 529
Cloaca, 95
Clothing and health, 649; evolution of, 650
Club-foot, cause of, 298
Clab-moss, 165, 431, 435, 436, 437, 442, 420, 432
Clytia larva, 513
Coal, cannel, 437; Brown, 4373 Carboniferous, 437 ; Devonian, 437; Eocene, 437 ; household, 437; Jurassic, 437; rate of use of, 437
Coal-measures, 436; life in, 442-
444 Cobitis barbatula, 536 Cobra, 114 Coccolithophoride, 510 Coccyx, 94 Cochineal insect, 611 Cocklebur, 587 Cockroach, 127, 565 Coconut moth, 610-611 — palm, 610 Ceelenterates, 149, 404, 405, 415, 674, 149, 151, 511 Coelom, evolution of, 406 Coenolestes, 237 Coffee, 644
883