n
paste-eels, for he kept the paste from which they had been taken,
without moistening it in any way, for twenty-seven years, and at the end
of that time the eels revived on being immersed in a drop of water. _If
they had exhausted their lives all at once and without these
intermissions, these Rotifera and paste-eels would not have lived beyond
sixteen or eighteen consecutive days._

To remove all doubt as to the complete desiccation of the animalcules
experimented on by SPALLANZANI and BAKER, M. DOYERE has published, in
the _Annales des Sciences Naturales_ for 1842, the results of his own
observation, in cases in which the mosses containing the insects were
dried under the receiver of an air-pump and left there for a week; after
which they were placed in a stove heated to 267 deg. Fahr., and yet, when
again immersed in water, a number of the _Rotifera_ became as lively as
ever.

Further particulars of these experiments will be found in the Appendix
to the _Rambles of a Naturalist, &c._, by M. QUARTREFAGE.

INDEX.

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ABOU-ZEYD, his account of fish on dry land, 350 n.
Abyssinia, fishes of, 352.
_Acalephae_, 398. _See_ Radiata.
Acanthopterygii, 360.
Accipitres, 245.
_Acherontia Sathanas_, 427
Adam's Peak, elephants on the summit, 109.
AElian's account of the mermaid, 69.
his statement as to the export of elephants from Ceylon, 77 _n_., 209 _n_.
error as to the shedding of the elephant's tusks, 79 _n_.
describes elephants killing criminals with their knees. 87 _n_.
error as to elephants' joints, 102.
his account of Ceylon tortoises, 293.
his account of the superiority of the elephants of Ceylon, 209 _n_.
his description of the performances of the trained elephants at
Rome, 237.
his account of the sword-fish, 328.
describes a _Cheironectes_, 331.
African elephant, its peculiarities, 65.
not inferior to the Indian in tractability, 208.
Albino buffalo, 57.
deer, 59.
Albyrouni, on the pearl oyster, 375.
Alce, described by Pliny and Caesar, 101 _n_.
Alexandria, story of the dogs at, 34.
Alligator, 283. _See_ Crocodile.
Almeida, Manoel de, on burying fishes, 353 _n_.
Amboina, mermaids at, 70.
Ampullaria, its faculty of burying itself, 355.
_Anabas_, 354.
Daldorf's account of, doubted, 349, 350.
accidents from, 351 n.
Angling bad in Ceylon, 335 _n_., 341.
_Annelidae_, leeches, 479.
land-leech, its varieties, 482.
land-leech, its te