INDEX.

“Accedence of Armorie,” 52, 121, 232

Acipenser, 330

Acosta, “travels in the Indies,” 44

Acrid secretion in skin of toad, 281

“Actes of English votaries,” 69

“Adam in Eden,” 48

Adder, 173

Adder eaters, 77

Ælianus, works of, 95

Agriophagi, 72

Ague, specifics for, 172, 186, 309

Ainos of Japan, 61

Albert Nyanza in old maps, 13

Albertus Magnus, 160, 282

Alciatus, Book of Emblems, 84

Aldrovandus, 63, 272, 305, 316

Alectorius, 235, 247

All creation a moral text book, 51, 125

Ambrosinus, 316

Amphisbæna, 304

“Anatomy of Melancholy,” 309

Anchor and Dolphin, 329

André on theory of Creation, 125

Andrew Marvel’s “Loyal Scot,” 69

Andromachus, physician to Nero, 299

Angulo or Hog-fish, 318

Animals in art and fable, 175

“Annals of Winchester,” 269

Anthropophagi, 11, 72

Antipathies, animal, 94, 153, 182, 187, 230, 232, 280, 289

Antipathy and sympathy, 153

Ant’s eggs, oil of, 278

Ants of India, 196

Ape, 122, 153

Apollo and Raven, 241

“Arcana Fairfaxiana,” 279

Arena, lions in the, 123

“Areopagitica,” 225

Ariosto, 207, 224

Aristotle, 30, 31, 55, 302

“Armonye of Byrdes,” 239

Armories, Natural History in, 32, 51, 119, 120, 121

Arms of the City of London, 277

Art, animals in, 175

“Art of simpling,” 188

Asbestos, its supposed nature, 293

Ashmole, diary of, 279

Askham on hare, 165

Asp, 51, 307

“As Pliny saith,” 4, 20

Assyrian seals, 131

Astrological influences, 11

“As you like it,” 208

Aubrey, extract from, 165, 179, 184, 238, 297

Augustine on higher and lower truths, 49

Authors consulted by Pliny, 26

Avicenna on chamæleon, 296

Azores in old map, 39

Bacci on unicorn, 131

Bacon’s “Natural History,” 166

Badge, panther, of King Henry VI., 151

Badger, 198

Bale on scandalous reports, 69

Ballasting of cranes and bees, 260

Bandicoot, 196

Barbary, lions of, 127

Barnacle goose, 214

Barnfield, “Cassandra,” 287

Barrow, “Travels in Africa,” 131

Bartholinus on unicorn, 131

Basilisk, 265, 286, 305

Bay-leaf as medicine, 274

Bearded grapes, 319

Bear, 161, 167, 182

Beaumont and Fletcher, 162, 176

Beaver, oil from the, 278

Bee, 260, 310

Beef, the praise of, 46

Bee-hives attacked by bears, 163

“Belvedere” of Bodenham, 170

Bereus on unicorn, 131

“Bestiare Divin” of Guillaume, 48

Bestiaries of Middle Ages, 31, 50

Blackbird, Sagacity of, 177

Black Swan, 230

“Blazon of Gentrie,” 119, 224

Blood of lion black, 116

Boar, 175

Bœwulf on Mermaid, 80

Boiling river, 43

“Bonduca,” extract from, 162

“Book of Emblems,” 84

“Book of Knowledge,” Winstanley, 183, 248

Boorde’s “Dyetary,” 46

Bosjesmen, ancient Troglodytes, 3, 61

Bossewell’s “Armorie,” 52, 169, 194

Bostock on Pliny, 29

Browne on Vulgar Errors, 56, 92, 106, 157, 162, 178, 205, 255, 267, 284, 313, 328

Buffon on Pliny, 21

Burton, “Miracles of Art and Nature,” 18, 19, 127, 131, 305

Bussy d’Amboise on Unicorn, 130

Butler, Hudibras, extract from, 214

Byron, extract from, 229, 330

Cabbage, the praise of, 47

Camel, 182, 198, 294

Camelopardilis, 124

Camerarius on dolphin, 329

Camillus, “mirror of stones,” 247

Cammetennus, 294

Camoens, extract from, 181

Camphor-tree, 152

Cancer, specific for, 189

Canibali, home of the, 37

“Canterbury Tales,” 276

Capture of elephant, 145

Carbuncle borne by dragon, 274

Carew, extract from, 164

Carlyle on books, 33

Carrier pigeons, 16

Cartazonos, 130

“Cassandra,” extract from, 287

“Castle of Memory,” 166

Cat, 168, 189

Catelan on Unicorn, 131

Cathay, palace at, 151

Catoblepas, 197

Centaur, 79, 294

Cerastes or horned viper, 298, 304

Ceylon, mermaids of, 88

“Ceylon, Natural History of,” 196

Chameleon, 136, 178, 274, 296

Chanticleer, 239

Chares on Theriaca, 299

Chaucer, extract from, 11, 30

Chelidonius, 247

Chelonites of Porta, 283

Chester’s “Love’s Martyr,” 170

“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” 330

Chinese referred to by Pliny, 28

Churchyard grass, remedial virtues of, 189

Cinirus, 124

Cinnabar, how produced, 137

Coats, extract from, 120, 194

Cobbe on the creation of monsters, 145

Cobra stone, 298

Coca plant, properties of, 18

Cock, 154, 232, 238

Cock-ale, 234

Cockatrice, 236, 267

Cockeram’s Dictionary, 288

Cockle, 196

Cogan, “Haven of Health,” 45, 167, 231, 277, 301

Coleridge on Nightingale, 252

Cole’s “Adam in Eden,” 48

“Art of simpling,” 188

Colours of dying dolphin, 330

Comets like blazing swords, 319

Composition of Venice Treacle, 229

Coney-fish, 209

Convulsions, remedy for, 167, 186

Coolness of blood of elephant, 149

Cornishmen tailed, 68

Corvia, 247

Cos, dragon of, 110

“Cosmography,” Munster’s, 34, 97, 127, 130, 139, 149, 220

Crabs’ eyes a remedy, 235, 335

Crabs generating scorpions, 297

Crane, 56, 260

Crapaudine, or toad stone, 281

Creatures of the fire, 295

Crippled feet of Chinese ladies, 15

Crocodile, 286, 294

Crocuta, 124

Cross on donkey’s back, 184, 186

Crow, sagacity of, 177

Cruelty in preparation of recipes, 48, 248, 335

Ctesias on griffin, 276;

on unicorn, 130

Cubs of bear a shapeless mass, 161

Cuckoo broth, 235

Culverwort, 16

“Curiosities of Heraldry,” 237

“Cursor Mundi,” extract from, 242

Cuttle-fish, 335

Cuvier on phœnix, 204;

on Pliny, 21

“Cymbeline,” extract from, 208

Cynamolgi, 72

Dagon, the fish god, 93

Daily Post, advertisement from, 90

Dallaway on unicorn, 133

Dead animals generating other creatures, 311

Dead men’s bones, oil from, 278

Deaf as an adder, 303

“De Animalibus” of Aristotle, 31

Death song of the swan, 229

Death-dealing cocatrice, 237

Decker on unicorn’s horn, 134

Deer, 173, 270

“De Humana Physiognomonica,” 78

“De Miraculis,” story from, 108

Democritus on serpent generation, 307

Derceto, 97

De Thaun, “Bestiary” of, 50, 124, 132, 185, 204, 292

Devil’s-bird, 241

“De Virtutibus Herbarum,” 160

Diamond dissolving, 178

Differences in aim in zoological study, 4

Digby, “The Closet Open,” 234

“Dirge,” extract from Gay’s, 241

Dioscorides, writings of, 95

“Discoverie of witchcraft,” 113

“Display of Heraldrie,” Guillim, 52, 120

Divining rod in use, 37

Doctrine of Signatures, 251

Dodœns, extract from, 309

Dog, 8, 119, 187, 189, 270, 316

Dog-headed men, 11, 42, 72

Dog-king, 73

Dolphin, 83, 289, 327

Donkey, 184, 188

Double-bodied animals, 65

Dove, 177, 240

Draconites, 247

Dragon, 268, 274

Dragon-maiden, 110

Dragon and elephant, feud between, 136, 147

Drayton, extract from, 250, 253, 259

Dropsy, remedy for, 298

Drunkenness, to avert, 249

Dryden, extract from, 161, 165, 224, 227, 259, 281

Du Bartas on barnacle-goose, 218

Du Chaillu on gorilla, 3;

on pygmies, 60

Dulness of hearing, remedy for, 308

Dust of Malta a remedy, 300

“Dyetary” of Boorde, 46

Eagle, 108, 223, 240, 276

Eale of Ethiopia, 197

Earless animals, 74

Earthworms in medicine, 279

Eastern love of the wonderful, 213

Eastern Travels of John of Hesse, 81

Eel’s blood for warts, 335

Eels from hairs, 182

Effects of climate on human tail growth, 71

Egyptians and the ass, 185

Einhorn, 130

El Dorado of Raleigh, 44

Elephant, 36, 107, 135, 177, 182, 213, 274, 294, 323

Elephant-headed boy, 64

Elizabeth, portrait of Queen, 176

Ellison, “Trip to Benwell,” 165

“Emblemes and Epigrames,” 210

“Emblems” of Whitney, 136

England, first elephant seen in, 142

Epilepsy, cure for, 173, 190

Ermine, the spotless, 176

Ethiopia, land of marvels, 73, 146, 276

“Euphues,” extract from, 262, 281

“Evangeline,” extract from, 247, 279

Evil spirit in donkey, 185

Eyebright for the sight, 48, 298

Fable, animals in, 175

“Fairie Queen,” extract from, 80, 113, 129

Fakirs of India mentioned by Pliny, 28

Famous horses of antiquity, 181

Fascination, power of, 285

Fennel, value of, 47

Fenton on toad stone, 282

Ferne, “Blazon of Gentrie,” 119, 224

Ferret, 173, 309

Feuds, animal, 129, 136

Filial love of storks, 259

Fishes choosing a king, 334

Fletcher on phœnix, 207

Flounder the wry-mouthed, 334

Fondness of dolphin for man, 328

Forget-me-not, 251, 277

Formosa men with tails, 70, 71

Four-eyed men, 74

Four-footed ducks and pigeons, 65

Four-legged serpents, 306

Fox, 167

Foxglove, 251

Freckles, cure for, 166

Frenzel on Unicorn, 131

Frog, 189, 278, 281, 308

Fulgentius on note of Raven, 242

Fuller, extracts from, 117

Galen, prescription of, 291

“Garden of the Muses,” extract from, 170

Garnier, the loup-garou, 108

Gay, extract from, 184, 241

Geliot’s “Indice Armorial,” 120

Gentleman’s Magazine, extract from, 93

Geranites, 247

Gerarde, extract from, 214, 309

Gesner’s “History of Animals,” 129

Giants, 75

Gift of eloquence, To acquire, 249

Gift of invisibility, 235

Gilbert White’s “Selborne,” 180

Glanvil, assertions of, 113, 276, 290

Glowworm, 257

Goat, 177, 234, 331

“Golden Gem for Geometricians,” 262

Gonzale on monstrous men, 79

Gorilla mentioned by Hanno, 3, 67

Gosse, “Romance of Natural History,” 86

Gout, remedy for, 244, 246, 278

Gray, oil from the, 278

Great-lipped men, 76

Green lizards in mediæval recipe, 8

Grimalkin, 192

Guiana of Sir W. Raleigh, 44

Guillaume, “Bestiare Divin” of, 48

Guillim’s “Display of Heraldrie,” 52, 120, 132, 176, 243

Gujerat, lions of, 124

Hairy men, 67

Hairy serpents, 306

Hakluyt’s “Voyages,” 44

Halcyone, myth of, 258

Halle on knowledge for Chirurgeons, 12

“Hamlet,” extract from, 228

Hanno’s pursuit of gorilla, 3, 67, 68

Hare, 8, 164, 165, 184

Harpy, 64, 146

Hartebeest, 124

“Haven of Health,” Cogan’s, 45, 167, 231, 277, 301

Hawkweed, 248

Headless men, 34, 65, 75

Heberden’s “Antitheriaca,” 299

Hedgehog, 168, 256

Hentzner on horn of unicorn, 134

Heraldic animals, 83, 127, 276, 328

Herbert’s book of travels, 39, 176

Herb-tea in the Spring, 274

Herodotus, writings of, 30

Herring, the king of fishes, 334

Herschell on love of books, 32

Heylyn, travels of, 42

Heywood on stork, 259

“Hind and Panther,” extract from, 161, 165

Hippeau on theological treatment, 6, 49

Hippocampus, 314

Hippopotamus, 118, 143, 149, 314

“Histoire des Anomalies” of St. Hilaire, 62

“Historia Naturalis” of Jonston, 130

“Historie of Plants,” Gerarde, 214

“History of America,” Robertson, 79

“History of Animals,” Gesner, 129

“History of Serpents and Dragons,” Aldrovandus, 272

Hog-fish, 209, 318

Holland, English version of Pliny, 29

Hollerius on snake stone, 298

Homer on eagle, 225;

on pygmies, 55

Hoopoe, stone from, 247

Horned men, 76, 294

Horned viper, 298

Hornets from dead mule, 311

Horn of unicorn, 133, 324

Horse, 181, 189, 236, 270, 276, 294, 297

Horse-shoe, 184

Hound’s-tongue, value of, 188

Howling of dogs an evil omen, 188

How serpents are developed, 297

How tempests may arise, 321

How the raven became black, 241

How to procure toad-stone, 283

Hudibras, quotation from, 162, 214

Hudson on mermaids, 85

Humble bees from dead ass, 311

Hyæna, 152, 156;

Men turned into, 104

Hydrophobia, treatment of, 189, 234

“Hymn on the Nativity,” Milton, 258

Iliad, extract from, 225

Incubators mentioned by Jordanus, 15

Indian customs mentioned by Pliny, 28

“Indice Armorial,” 120

Indifference to animal suffering, 48, 167, 248, 335

Inhabitants of the sea-depths, 313

Insomnia, specific for, 177

Instances of sagacity in birds, 177

Invisibility, gift of, 245, 297

Ipotayne, half-man, half-horse, 79

Izaak Walton, extract from, 209

Jaguars, men turned to, 104

Jaundice, specific for, 189

Java, home of the pygmies, 58

Jewel-bearing toad, 281

Job on the eagle, 224

John of Hesse, travels of, 81

Jonston’s “Historia Naturalis,” 130

Jordanus, extract from, 13, 58, 73, 196, 213, 274

Juggernaut, 15

“Julius Cæsar,” extract from, 130

Jumar, 124

Keen sight of eagle, 225

Kentish men tailed, 68, 69

Kingfisher, 255

“King Henry IV.,” extract from, 166, 254

“King Henry VI.,” extract from, 161, 208, 224, 246, 266, 296, 304

“King Henry VIII.,” extract from, 286

“King Lear,” extract from, 254

King of beasts, 116;

of birds, 232;

of fishes, 334;

of serpents, 266

Kite, sagacity of, 177

“Knight of Malta,” extract from, 176

Lady loup-garou, 109

Lalla Rookh, extract from, 210

Lamia, 294

Lamb-tree, 223

Land of the pygmies, 57

Landseer’s animal painting, 175

Language of beasts, to learn, 42

Lapwing, 177

Lark, sagacity of, 177

Larva of tiger-moth, 306

Laterrade on the unicorn, 131

Lavender as a remedy, 301

Legend of the robin, 250

Legh, “Accedence of Armorie,” 52, 121, 144, 178, 187, 242

Leo, “History of Africa,” 158, 271

Leontophonos, 128

Leopards, men turned to, 104

Leviathan, 334

Licking little bears into shape, 161

Lightning, protection against, 258

Like to like, 300

Lily, “Euphues” of, 281

Lion, 116, 232, 270, 276, 294, 303, 310

Lipless men, 73

“Livre des Creatures” of De Thaun, 50, 124

Lizard, 8, 296

Lomie, 197

Long-eared men, 42, 77

Long-headed men, 78

Longfellow, extract from, 247, 279

Loup-garou, 108

Love of the marvellous, 10

“Love’s Martyr” of Chester, 170

“Loyal Scot” of Andrew Marvel, 69

Luminous ink, 312

Lupton, extract from, 282

“Lusiad” of Camoens, 181

Luther on whale, 334

Lycanthropy, 101

“Macbeth,” extract from, 192

Macaulay on books, 32

“Maccabees,” extract from, 145

Macer on fennel, 47

Mad as a March hare, 165, 166

Mad dog, 9

“Magick of Kirani,” 251, 270

Maneless lions, 123

Manticora, 156, 197

Manufacture of mermaids, 91;

of pygmies, 58

Maori traditions, 61

“Mappæ Clavicula,” extract from, 182

Marcellus, cure of blindness, 248

Marco Polo, travels of, 40, 144, 211

Marlowe, extract from, 241, 255

Marmalade for students, 46

Martin’s “Philosophical Grammar,” 132

Marvellous Isle of Dondum, 75

Matthew Prior, drawing of elephant, 143

Maundevile, extract from, 15, 16, 110, 138, 147, 151, 195, 202, 244, 276, 308, 336

Mauritius veal, 89

Medical zoology, 4, 45

Mediæval theory of creation, 125

Melancholia, its cause, 166

Men who lived on odours, 58, 75

Mendez Pinto the marvellous, 41

Mermaid, 79, 80, 313

Metacollinarum, 294

“Merchant of Venice,” extract from, 54, 192, 229

“Metamorphoses,” Ovid, 101

Metempsychosis, 107

Mewing nuns, 105

“Midsummer night’s dream,” extract from, 83

Milton, extract from, 226, 253, 258, 334

“Miracles of Art and Nature,” extract from, 18, 19

“Mirror for Mathematics,” 262

Mirror of stones, 247

Mithridate, 299

Mole, 168, 172, 335

Monoceros, 130

“Monstrorum Historia” of Aldrovandus, 63

Moon-worshipping elephants, 139

Moore, Extract of, 210

Moral-pointing treatment of zoology, 4, 6, 173, 244, 287, 293

Moss from dead man’s skull, 278

Moufflon in Munster’s book, 35

Mouse, 137, 167, 194

Mouthless men, 75, 76

Munster’s “Cosmography,” 34, 97, 127, 130, 139, 149, 220, 306

Music, dolphins love of, 330

Musinus, 129

Mussel, 196

Mutianus on monkeys, 139

Narwhal tusk, 324

“Natural History,” Bacon’s, 166

“Natural History of Norway,” 87

“Natural History of Selborne,” 180

“Natural Magick,” 154

“New Jewell of Health,” 277

Nightingale, 251

Nile represented in old maps, 13, 36

Noah and the raven, 242

Noseless men, 73

Oannes the fish-god, 96

Odin’s wolf, 157

Oil of swallows, 249

Oils of medicinal repute, 278

Olaus Magnus, writings of, 106, 320, 333

Omens from animals, 164

One-legged men, 42, 294

“Orlando Furioso,” extract from, 207, 304

“Ortus Sanitatis,” extract from, 280

Oryges, 197

Ostrich devouring iron, 231

“Othello,” Extract from, 241, 282

Ovid, the “Metamorphoses” of, 101

Owl, 246

Oxford life in the year 1636, 46

Oyster, the susceptible, 196

Panther, 149, 232

“Paradise lost,” extract from, 334

Parkinson, on barnacle goose, 219

Parrot-fish, 209

Parsee funeral customs, 13

“Pathway to Knowledge,” extract from, 312, 336

Peacock, 240, 254

Pearl-fish, 332

Pegasus, 324

Pelican, 227, 240

Percy Society Publications, 240

Performing elephants, 138

“Periplus” of Hanno, 67

Philomela, 252

“Philosophical Grammar,” Martin, 132

Philostratus on pygmies, 55

Phisiologus on the mermaid, 80

Phœnix, 200, 240, 294

Physician-tench, 335

Pietro del Porco, 176

Pillars of Hercules, 36

Pinto, liar of first magnitude, 41

Plagiarism, 45

Playmate, dragon as a, 275

Pliny’s “Natural History,” 21, 95, 123, 150, 246

Plutarch, quotation from, 37

Poison fish, 209

Polypus and the significance thereof, 4, 5

Pomphagi, 72

Pontarf, 338

Pontoppidan, writings of, 87

“Poor Robin’s Almanack,” extract from, 170

Pope on learned blockheads, 33

Porta, extract from, 78, 122, 124, 152, 154, 160, 172, 182, 233, 283, 295, 300

Potter’s “Booke of Phisicke,” 45

Powdered mummy, 278

Praise of method, 53

Prawn, 332

Prester John, kingdom of, 293

“Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 92

“Purchas his Pilgrimage,” 44, 318

Pygmies, 54, 294

Pyragones, 295

“Quentin Durward,” extract from, 157

Rabbit, 119

Raleigh, Sir Walter, on Guiana, 44

Ram, 198

Ram-headed man, 64

Rat, 194, 196, 282

Raven, 177, 241

Raven-stone, 244

Ray, its love for man, 331

Reginald Scot, “Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 113

Rejuvenescence of the eagle, 226

Relentless asp, 307

“Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme,” 165, 298

Remedies for hydrophobia, 189

Remora, 326

Rheumatism, remedy for, 167

“Rich Jew of Malta,” extract from, 241

Rings bearing toad-stone, 281

Robbers checkmated, 9

Robertson, “History of America,” 79

Robin, 249

Rochester rudeness to A. Becket, 68, 69

Roc or Rukh, 211

“Romance of Natural History,” Gosse, 86

Roman mosaic at Brading, 98

“Romeo and Juliet,” extract from, 192

Rondoletius, book of, 319

Roulet, the loup-garou, 109

Sachs on unicorn, 131

“Saducismus Triumphatus,” 113

Sagacity of the crane, 261

Salamander, 154, 209, 290

Sargon, 331

“Savage Africa,” Winwood Reade, 61

Sciatica, specific for, 182

Scoresby on mermaids, 84

Scorpion, 9, 277, 278, 302, 338

Scorpion-grass, 251, 277

Scots Magazine, extract from, 87

Screech-owl, 108

Sea elephant, 323

Sea horse, 314

Seal, Greek superstition respecting, 289

Serpent, 173, 178, 236, 267

Serpentine monstrosities, 305

Shakespeare, extract from, 11, 32, 54, 55, 130, 173, 180, 192, 208, 228, 229, 241, 246, 253, 254, 255, 266, 277, 291, 296, 304

Shakespeare on learning, 33

Sheep as great as oxen, 76

Shelley on nightingale, 253

“Ship of Fools,” 39

Shony, the storm-dog, 191

Shrew-ash, 180

Shrew-mouse, 179, 234

Silkworm, 312

Silurus, 338

Single-footed men, 20

Sir Emerson Tennant on travellers’ tales, 2

“Six Pastorals,” extract from, 250

Skelton’s poem on birds, 240

Sleeplessness, to cause, 251

Snail-shells as houses, 308

Snake charmers mentioned by Pliny, 29

Song of the nightingale, 252

Southey, extract from, 232

“Speculum Mundi,” extract from, 5, 81, 88, 131, 133, 144, 180, 194, 227, 229, 252, 265, 266, 287, 320

“Speculum Regale,” 86

Speechless men, 73

Spenser, quotation from, 80, 113, 129, 150, 226, 240, 281, 286, 301, 326, 327

Sphinx, 146

Spider, 279, 282, 308

Squirrel, 174

Stag-wolf, 160

Stanley rediscovering pygmies, 3, 60

Stellion, 154

Stolbergk on unicorn, 131

Stone in lapwing’s nest, 8

Stones of magic virtue, 247

Stork, 259

Storm-raisers, 191

Strabo on the pygmies, 55

Strewing herbs, 302

Struys’ voyages and travels, 44, 70

Subjects dealt with by Pliny, 22

Sucking fish or remora, 326

“Survey of Cornwall,” extract from, 164

Sus Marinus, 317

Suttee an ancient usage, 14

Swallow, 8, 240, 247, 260

Swallow-wort, 248

Swam-fish, 333

Swan-song, 228

Swift, quotation from, 37

Symbol of resurrection, 203

Sympathy and antipathy, 153

Syrens, 82

Tacitus on phœnix, 201

Tailed men, 43, 68, 69

“Tale of a Tub,” Swift, 37

“Taming of the Shrew,” extract from, 180

Tavernier on bird of paradise, 210

Tears of the crocodile, 286

Teasel-heads, 309

“Tempest,” extract from, 79, 209

Tench, the physician fish, 335

Tennant on works of ancient travellers, 2

Tensevetes, 294

Ten-tailed lizard, 63

“Theater of plants,” 219

Theocritus on halcyon calm, 258

Theologians, a study of zoology, 4

Theriaca, 299

Thoes, 124

“Thousand notable things,” 282

Three-eyed men, 74

Three-headed monster, 65

Thynne’s “Book of Emblems,” 210

Tiger, 118, 198

Tiger-men, 104

“Timon of Athens,” extract from, 130

Titian, device of, 161

Title-pages full of interest, old, 6, 34, 272

Titles of old books, 12

Toad, 236, 274, 279, 308

Toad-stone, 281

Toad-wort, 280, 298

To catch Sargi, 331

Tooth-ache, remedy for, 335

Topsell, extract from, 165, 168, 171, 179, 280

Torpedo, 257

Tortoise, sagacity of, 178

Tradescant’s museum, 209

Transfer of valuable animal properties to man, 8

Travellers’ tales, 3, 338

“Travels in Africa,” Barrow, 131

Travels of Le Gouz, 326

Treachery of the shrew mouse, 179

“Trip to Benwell,” extract from, 165

Troglodytes mentioned by Pliny and others, 3

“Troilus and Cressida,” extract from, 304

Tusser’s “Husbandry,” 301

“Two Gentlemen of Verona,” extract from, 296

Two-headed animals, 65

Unchangeableness of old customs, 13, 28

Urcheon, urchin, or hedgehog, 169

Use of elephant in war, 137

Value of personal observation, 199

“Varia Historia,” extract from, 95

Venice treacle, 9, 299

Venomous men, 43

Versipellis, the skin-turner, 106

Vervain in recipe, 8

Victoria Nyanza in old maps, 13

Viper in medicine, 298, 299

Virgil on bees, 261, 311

“Voiage and Travaile” of Maundevile, 15, 16, 110, 138, 202, 308

Warder, Dr., on bees, 261

Wart, to cure, 182, 190

Wasps from dead horse, 311

Waters of Lethe, 99

Weasel, 119, 188, 296, 318

Weather prognostics, 82, 170

Weeping of deer, 173

Wehr-wolves, 99, 104

Whales pacified with tubs, 37, 39

When venison should be avoided, 173

Whitney’s “Emblems,” 136

Whooping cough, remedy for, 163, 186, 188, 308

Why bears attack bee-hives, 163

Winstanley’s “Book of Knowledge,” 183, 248, 312

Wolf, 8, 118, 154, 157, 182

Wolf-headed man, 79

Wondrous beasts of mediæval fancy, 197

Woolly bear, 306

Wren, 249

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