INDEX.

Æroscope, 155.

Agaric, luminous, 135, et seq.

Agassiz, Mrs., on jelly-fish, 11.

—— Louis, 19.

Baird, William, on Chinese fire-flies, 68.

Baird, Professor S. F., 94.

Balmain’s luminous paint, 164.

Banks, Sir Joseph, on luminous crabs, 75.

Beetles, 47.

cannonading, 48.

odorous, 48.

flesh-eating, 48.

grave-digging, 49.

Scarabæus, 49.

lightning-bugs, 49.

Bellot, Lieut., on luminous crustaceans, 73.

Bennett, D. F., on luminous shark, 100.

Berkeley, Rev. J. M., on fox-fire, 131.

Black swallower, 97.

Blind fishes, 92.

“Blood-rains,” 153.

Bombay duck, 93.

Boon Island, sea-jellies at, 10.

Boring-shells, 40.

Branner, John C., on lantern-fly, 67.

Burning bush, legends of, 129.

Canton’s phosphorus, 156.

Centipedes, 69.

Chalk Cliff, Dover, 3.

“Challenger,” exploring-ship, 24, 31.

China, luminous insects in, 65.

Chinese luminous paint, 164.

Coal-mines, luminosity in, 133.

Collingwood, Dr. Cuthbert, on luminous fungus, 134.

Corals, 21.

Col. Pike on their phosphorescence, 21.

Cosmic dust, 148 et seq.

composition of, 149.

Crabs, luminous, 72 et seq.

Cranes, phosphorescence of, 109.

Crustaceans, luminous, 72.

Lieut. Bellot on, 73.

Nordenskiöld on, 73.

Cuttle-fishes, 46.

Cyclops, 73.

Darwin on phosphorescence of Medusæ, 17.

—— on earthworms, 34.

—— on lightning-bugs of South America, 57.

—— on dust-showers, 152.

Deep sea, fishes of, 91 et seq.

Deep-sea shrimps, brilliant colors, 79.

Deep-sea dredging, 93.

Dejean, Gen., story of, 47.

Diatoms, luminous, 128 et seq.

Donovan, luminous insects of India, 68.

Drummond, Mr., on luminous toadstools, 136.

Dubois, Professor Raphael, on phosphorescence, 61.

Dust, luminous, 148.

Dust showers at sea, 152.

Earth-worms, 33.

of New Zealand, 33.

Darwin on, 34.

Roman villas preserved by, 34.

of Australia, 35.

of India, 35.

luminosity, 35.

Echinoderm, nature of, 29.

Finny light-bearers, 91 et seq.

Fireflies, 59 et seq.

as ball-room ornaments, 59.

as lanterns, 60.

spectrum of their light, 61.

brilliancy, 52.

Fire-mushroom, 134.

Fish, luminous, 91 et seq.

Fish, dead, phosphorescent, 141.

“Fish-stories,” 97.

Fogs, luminous, 146.

Fox-fire, 131.

Florida Reef, 3, 24.

displays of phosphorescence at, 107.

Flowers, luminous, 121.

Frog’s eggs, luminosity of, 114.

Fungus, luminous, 133 et seq.

Gardiner, Mr., on luminous fungus, 135.

Garfish, phosphorescent, 106.

Gecko, luminosity of, 115.

Globerigina, 3.

Goethe on luminosity of poppy, 122.

Gorgonias, 24.

Sir Wyville Thompson on, 25.

Dr. Holder on, 26.

Günther, Dr., on luminous fish, 92.

Hailstones, luminous, 145.

Homer’s “Iliad,” dust-shower in, 154.

Herons, luminosity of, 113.

Human beings sometimes luminous, 116.

Humboldt on phosphorescence, 6.

Ice, luminous, 146.

Infusoria, 152.

Jaeger, Professor, on luminous beetles, 60.

Jelly-fish. See Medusæ.

Josephus refers to luminosity of plants, 130.

Kane, Dr. E. K., curious instance of luminosity recorded by, 117.

Lantern-flies, 64 et seq.

Legends of the “burning bush,” 129.

Light-emitting organs of Medusæ, 17.

Luminous larvæ, 54 et seq.

Lightning-bugs, 47.

Southey, the poet, on, 49.

of West India Islands, 50.

Gosse on, 51.

common, of Eastern United States, 52.

common, of Europe, 56.

Luminosity in man, instances of, 116.

of plants, 129 et seq.

Luminous organs of lightning-bugs, 55.

—— fishes, 94.

—— fogs, 146.

—— “ink,” 156.

—— marbles, 155.

—— organs of fishes, 98.

—— paint, 157.

—— showers, 144.

Lyell, Sir Charles, on cosmic dust, 152.

Mackerel, luminosity of, 104.

Marigold, luminosity of, 121.

Martyr, Peter, on luminous insects, 62.

Meat, phosphorescent, 141.

Medusæ, or jelly-fish, 10–18.

numbers, 11.

light-givers, 11.

Professor A. Agassiz on, 12.

brilliance, 14.

Darwin on, 17.

Spallanzani on their phosphorescence, 17.

Humboldt on, 18.

Menhaden, luminosity of, 103.

Merian, Madame, on the luminosity of Fulgora lanternaria, 66.

Meteors of the sea, 10.

Monkey, luminosity of eyes of, 114.

Moonfish, 105.

Mount Blanc, luminous cap of, 146.

Mushrooms, edible, 138.

Mussel Bay, luminous snow, 74.

Nasturtium, luminosity of, 121.

Noctiluca, 4–9.

Nordenskjöld discovers cosmic dust, 148.

Oban, sea-pens at, 26.

Ogunquit, Me., sunfish at, 104.

Ooze, 3.

Ovideo on luminous insects, 62.

Phantoms, 140.

Pholas, 40.

Phosphorescence of the sea, 6–9.

—— the secret of, 41.

—— of Pyrosoma, 81.

Phosphorescence, its uses, 160.

Pliny, on the luminosity of Pholas, 41.

Polyps, their phosphorescence, 24.

Poppy, luminosity of, 121, 123.

Pteropods, 42.

Pyrosoma, 81 et seq.

Rotifers, 36.

San Gabriel Valley, beetles in, 48.

Sea-anemones, 20.

Sea fans and plumes, 24.

Sea-opossum, 75.

Sea-pen, 26–28.

Sea-slugs, luminous, 44.

Sea-urchins, 29.

Seas of flame, 86 et seq.

Serapis, Temple of, 40.

Shark, luminous, 99 et seq.

Slugs, garden, 45.

Spiders of the sea, luminous, 76.

Squid, 46.

Star-fish, 29–32.

Sugar, flashes of light from, 155.

Sunfish, 104.

Toadstools, luminous, 136.

Touchwood, or fox-fire, 131.

Trepang, 29.

Tulasue, M., on luminous fungus, 134.

Venus’s girdle, 15.

Verbenas, luminosity of, 122.

Water-fleas, 72.

Water-spouts, luminous, 127.

Whales, supposed phosphorescence of, 106.

Worms, marine, 35.

phosphorescent, 36–39.

Worrall, Mr. Isaac W., on luminosity of crane, 109.