Part 25

Fever in India, 129 Redwater, conveyed by Rhipicephalus annulatus, 172 conveyed by Ixodes reduvius in Europe, 172 Rhodesian, conveyed by Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, 172 conveyed by Rhipicephalus shipleyi, 172 Rocky Mountain, 171 Spotted, 171 Texas, 170 Tick, 170 Yellow, Cause of the spread of, 163 Organism not known which causes, 163

Filaria, 141 Elephantiasis, 159 bancrofti, 180 immitis, existing in the heart of dogs, 180 nocturna, 157 Round-worms in the disease of, 157

Filariasis, Disease of, 157 Elephantiasis, a variety of, 157

Filhol, on luminous slime, 33

Filippi, on origin of pearls, 4

Flacherie disease in silkworms, 116

Flies. See also under Anopheles, Culicidæ, Diptera, Filaria Beelzebub called Lord of, 173 Blue-bottle fly, 167 Danger of, 174 Destruction of, creolin deters flies from ovipositing, 182 ‘Fly-belts,’ 166 House-fly, 167 Agent in the dissemination of cholera and enteric fevers, 178 Distribution of the, 176 First described and named Musca domestica by Linnæus, 174 Larva of, described by Bouché, 174 of the, turning into a dark brown pupa or chrysalis, 175 Larvæ of, Food of the, 175 Life-history of, 175 Transformation of, described by de Geer, 174 Meat, or blow-fly, Musca vomitoria, Maggot in the Larva of, 175 Parasites of, 181 Dispharagus nasutus (Rud.), 181 Empusca muscæ, 181 Habronema muscæ, 181 Nematodum sp. (?), 181 Tsetse fly conveys sleeping-sickness, 169 Female does not lay eggs, 166 Larva of, 166 Pupa of, 166 Geographical distribution of the, 166 (Glossina), 164 Habits of, 165 Mortality amongst the horses in the Abyssinian Campaign perhaps caused by the, 166 Prey of the, is the big game of Africa, including crocodiles, 167 and bacilli, 179 Epidemic diarrhœa caused by, 179 Infantile diarrhœa caused by, 180 and disease: Agencies for carrying disease-causing organisms, 155 Agencies for transmitting the plague bacillus, 155, 177 Agencies for carrying Egyptian ophthalmia, and the ‘sore-eye’ so common in Florida, 155, 156, 177 Agencies for carrying the bacilli of enteric fever, 155 Agencies for carrying the Bacillus typhosus, 178 Agencies for disseminating cholera, 177 Cause of woolsorter’s disease, 155, 177 Musca domestica carry the bacillus of anthrax, 155, 177

Flounder, Fertilization of the eggs of the, 46

Foraminifera, 31

Forbes, Edward, 19, 23

Foster, Sir Michael, 188

Fowl, Wild ancestor of the Barn-door, 90

Frederick, Cæsar, 9

Fulton, Dr., Diminution of plaice and lemon-soles due to their spawning only in deep water, 51 Increase of dabs due to their spawning in protected waters, 51, 52

Gabes, Gulf of, 8

Gadow, H., 88

Galle, 13

Gall-sickness caused by T. theileri, 168

Gallus bankiva, 90

Galton, F., on prepotency as a sport, 95

Gambier group, 14

Garner, 5

Garstang, W., Transplantation of small plaice, 57 Evidence before the House of Lords Committee in 1904, 63

Gas, Invention of the word, 108

Gay-Lussac on racemic acid, 105

Generali: House-fly harbours a larval nematode called Nematodum sp. (?), 181

Generation, Spontaneous, 111, 112

Giard on pearls, 5, 8, 14