Part 33

Rabies, 123, 124, 125 Attenuated virus of, 123, 124 First inoculation against, 124

Racehorses, Breeding of, 93 Byerly Turk, 93 Darley Arabian, 93 Deterioration in the staying power of, 93 Godolphin Arabian, 93

Radiolarians, 31 ‘Phæodaria’ existing in, 34 Skeletons of, 40

Rayleigh, Lord, 187 Gift of the Nobel Prize, 191

Recapitulation theory, 74

Red clay, 31

Redia larva, 111

Redi, Francesco, 111

Redwater fever, 170, 172

Reinke, 66

Remus, 96

Rhabdopleura, 41

Rhinoptera javanica, 13, 14

Rhipicephalus annulatus conveys Redwater fever, 172 appendiculatus conveys Rhodesian fever, 172 shipleyi conveys Rhodesian fever, 172

Rikitea, 14

Rivers, Dr., and Myers, Dr., Formation of a school for psychophysics, 209

Romanes, on ‘Physiological selection,’ 91 on ‘Regression towards mediocrity,’ 91 on the Swamping effect of inter-crossing, 91 Suggested explanations of telegony, 79

Romulus, 96 Production of, 85

Ross, Sir James, 18 Sir John, 18, 19 Major R., on Hæmamœba (Proteosoma), relicta worked out by, 146 on Number of deaths due to ‘fever’ in India, 129 Researches, 142, 143 Work on the malarial parasite, 125, 141

Sagitta, 25, 32

Sambon, Dr. See Low, Dr.

Sandilands, Dr., Investigations on epidemic diarrhœa, 179

Sargasso Sea, Temperature of the, 27

Sars, Professor G. O., Fertilization of the floating ova of the cod, 46 Fertilization of the floating ova of the mackerel, 46 Michael, 19

Sassari, Extermination of mosquitoes by the use of petroleum, 154

Schwann, 109

Scoter, 6

Sea, Atlantic current, Temperature of the, 44 Colour of the, 18 Deep, Explorations, A. Agassiz’s voyage in the Blake, 20 Albatross’s voyage, 20 Bache’s, 19 Bailey’s, 19 Captain Wilkes and Dana’s Expedition, 19 De Pourtalès, 19 Discovery of extinct species, 22 Dr. W. B. Carpenter’s and G. Jeffrey’s voyage in the Porcupine, 20 Expedition in the Discovery, 21 in the Drache, 20 in the Gauss, 21 in the Gazelle, 20 in the Travailleur, 20 in the Talisman, 20 in the Valdivia, 20 in the Washington, 20 Lord Mulgrave’s Expedition to the Arctic Sea, 18 Lovén’s, 19 Maury’s, 19 Michael and G. O. Sars’s, 19 Prince of Monaco’s expedition in the Hirondelle and Princess Alice, 20 Plankton Expedition, 20 ‘Pola’ Expedition, 20 Professor E. Forbes’s voyage in the Beacon, 19 Professor W. Thomson’s and Dr. W. B. Carpenter’s voyage in the Lightning, 19, 20 Russian investigations in the Black Sea, 20 Siboga Expedition, 20 Sir James Ross and Sir Joseph Hooker’s Antarctic Expedition, 18, 19 Sir John Franklin’s expedition with H. Goodsir in the Erebus, 19 Sir John Murray’s voyage in the Challenger, 20 Sir John Ross’s voyage to Baffin’s Bay, 18, 19 Soundings, History of, 17, 18, 19 Voyage of the Novara, 19 Depths of the, 16 Absence of storms in the, 28 Absence of stripes, bands, spots, or shading in animals from the, 36 Absence of sunlight in, 24 Abundance of animal life in the, 32 Air-bladder of animals from the, 38 Algæ living in the, 24, 25 Bones of many abysmal fishes deficient in lime, 39, 40 Cavities of the bodies of animals lined with a black epithelium, 36, 37 Challenger dredgings in the, 29 Colour of creatures from the, 35 Currents in the, 28 Diatoms in the, 25, 26 Distribution of animal life in the, 25 Division into zones by E. Forbes, 23 Effect of the absence of sunlight on the animals in the, 33 Enormous jaws of animals from the, 38 Eyes in the animals from the, 35 Fauna of the Antarctic shown by the Challenger and the Valdivia to be exceptionally rich, 32 Feelers and antennæ of the animals from the, 37 Foraminifera in the, 26 Formation of a skeleton of silex by animals from the, 40 of the, Holothurians in the, 29 Inability of the deep-sea fauna to form a skeleton of calcareous matter, 39, 40 Inhabitants of the, 24 in the Carolines, 23 in the Friendly Islands, 23 Jelly-fish in the, 25 Large size of Polar animals from the, 39 Mudline of Sir J. Murray, 30 Old-world forms from the, 40, 41 Phosphorescence of animals from the, 33 Radiolarians in the, 26 Records of Captain Durham in the South Atlantic, 22 of the Challenger and Gazelle, 22 of the Tuscarora East of Japan, 23 Reduction and diminution in size of the respiratory organs in animals from the, 40 Replacement of visual organs by tentacles or feelers by the inhabitants of the, 34 Sagitta in the, 25 Salinity of the, 17 Scenery of the, 31 Spines of animals from the, 39 Sponges in the, 28 Stillness in the, 28, 29 Symmetry of animals in the, 29 Temperature of the, 17, 18, 26, 27 in the Mediterranean Sea made by the Washington, 27 in the Sargasso Sea made by the ‘Plankton’ Expedition, 27 near the Sulu Islands, 27 on the westerly side of Sumatra, 27 Transparency of sea-water, 18 Uniformity of physical conditions in the, 26 Fisheries Act, 1868, 47 America, American Commission, 66 Fish-breeding institution, 67 Beam-trawls used in steam-trawlers until 1893, 47 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Central Staff, 68 Bounty system, Objections to the, 46 British, Extent of, 43 Statistics of, 42 Value of the industry to the inhabitants, 42 Bye-laws, 69 Carriers, Employment of, 47 Causes of impoverishment, 56 ‘Accumulated stock’ has been fished out, 56, 59 consumption of the plaice’s food by small haddocks, 57 Dab has usurped the position of the plaice on the Dogger Bank, 57 destruction of young fish, 58, 59 limited area for fish in a limited volume of water, 57 Christiania Conference, 1901, 55 Commissions of, 45 Dabs, Increase of, due to their spawning in protected waters, 51, 52 Denmark, Development of the local fishery on the west coast of Denmark, 64 Determination of the age of fish, 61 Diminution of fish recorded by the Trawling Commission of 1885, 50 of fish-supply being caused by the trawl disproved, 51 Distinction between ‘small’ and ‘large’ fish, 58 Dogger Bank, 57, 60 Eggs, Number of, in various fish, 49 English fishing authorities, 45 Experimental Investigations, 56 Experiments with marked fish, 52, 60, 61 with marked plaice, 60 Firth of Forth and St. Andrews Bay, Closure of, 51 Fish-breeding experiments, 69 Fishmongers’ Company, Seizure of small fish, 58 Fleeting, Process of, 48 Free Trade in, 47 Germany, Kiel Commission, 66 Haddock, Diminution of the, 56 Heligoland, Biological Station, 66 Herrings, Scarcity of, doubtful if due to whaling, 43 Spawning-grounds of the, 49 Ice, Introduction of the use of, 47 Increase in the employment of steam vessels, 47 Inquiries, Seventeen, within the last seventy years into, 44 Inspectors attached to the Home Office, 1861, 68 transferred to the Board of Trade, 1886, 68 transferred to the Board of Agriculture, 1903, 68 Intensity in the conduction of fishing, 60 in the conduction of fishing shown by experiment with weighted bottles, 61 International character of problems, 65, 66 Lancashire and Western Sea-Fishery Committee, 69 Local Committees, 68 Marine Biological Association, 70, 71, 72 Marine Biological Association Memoirs, 70 Marine Biological Association, Transplantation experiments of the, 58 Methods of renewing and aerating the water in fish-tanks, 47 Migration of the common eel in the Atlantic, 50 of the Lofoten cod-fishery, 50 North Sea, 45 Area of the, 48, 49 International investigations of the, 60, 71 International measures for the improvement of the, 1902, 55 ‘Liners’ used for catching fish in the, 49 Otter-trawl used since 1893, 47 Parliamentary Committee on the Sea-Fisheries Bill, 1900, 54 Peel, Fish-hatchery, 69 Plaice, Average annual catch of, 54 Demand of, in the fried-fish shops in the East End of London, 62 Diminution of, and lemon-soles due to their spawning only in deep water outside the closed areas, 51 Diminution of soles and plaice recorded by the Select Committee of 1893, 50 Rise in the price of, 54 Small, increase of, transplanted to the Dogger Bank, 57 Plaice, small, Protection of, 64 Port Erin, Marine Station at, 69 Price of fish, 53, 54 Productivity of the sea, 57 Relation of the ova to the trawl, 51 Royal Commission of, 1863, 45, 57 Royal Commission Report, 1866, 45 Salmon Fishery Act of 1861, 68 Sardines more valuable than their adult form, the pilchard, 59 Scottish and Irish Fishery Boards, 67 Select Committee of 1893, 71 ‘Shell-Fisheries,’ 69 Soles, Diminution of, and plaice recorded by the Select Committee of 1893, 50 Statistics, 52, 53, 54, 55 Suggested remedies, 65 Undersized fish, 63 United States, Commission of Fish and Fisheries. See Sea-Fisheries, America, American Commission. Whitebait fetch more in the market than the parent form, 59