*

With these sentences, we conclude this book, as well as our selections
on the whale. In the Museum at Edinburgh may be seen one of the finest,
if not the most perfect, skeleton of a whale exhibited in this kingdom.
Our young readers there can soon see, by examining it from the gallery,
that the whale is no "fish."

FOOTNOTES:

[282] Mark Lemon, "Jest Book," p. 122.

[283] _Ibid._, p. 201.

[284] _Ibid._, p. 142.

[285] "Noctes Ambrosianae," Works of Professor Wilson, vol. ii., p. 4.

INDEX.

Addison and Steele on the peculiarities of the natural history collectors, 5-8

Albert's horse at Brussels, 256.

Ammonianus and his ass, 279.

Androcles and the lion, 167-169.

Ant-eater, the great, 225-229.

Arctic fox, 142-148.

Ass, Sydney Smith on sagacity of, 283.

Ass and zebra, 276.

Ass's foal, 278.

Asses with deers' antlers fastened on heads, 284;
duty free, 284.

Asylum for animals, 265, 266.

Austrian general and a bear, 58, 59.

Aye-aye, its singular structure and habits, 36-38.

Baboons, Lady Anne Barnard on, 24, 25.

Babylon, bas-relief of dog found at, 86, 87.

Babyrusa, 240.

Back, Sir George, anecdote of Arctic lemming, 196.

Badger, 71;
anecdotes of, 72-75.

Baird, origin of name, 241.

Barrentz on white or Polar bear, 64.

Barnard, Lady Anne, pleads for the baboons, 24, 25;
on some rabbits, 222.

Bats, fantastic faces of, 38, 39.

Bearable pun, 61.

Bears, 56, 57;
anecdotes of, 58-70.

Beechey, Captain, on Polar bear, 63;
on the walrus, 184-186, 187.

Bell, Professor, on cats, 149.

Bell, Sir Charles, on the head of a pig, 239.

Bell-Rock horse, 257.

Bentham, Jeremy, and his pet cat, 150-152;
and the mice, 205, 206.

Berwickshire, names of places in, derived from swine, 241.

Bess, a pet hare of the poet Cowper's, 216.

Bisset and his trained monkeys, 25, 26;
musical cats, 152, 153;
trained hares and turtle, 221, 222;
learned pig, 250.

Black Dwarf's cat, 157.

Blomfield, Bishop, bitten by a dog, 88.

Boar, wild, 239-245.

Border, cow getting across, 309.

Borneo, the home of the orang, 11.

Boswell imitates the lowing of a cow, 305.

Bradford, Earl of, on the number of legs of a sheep, 296.

Bristol, Bishop of, comparing Cambridge freshmen to puppies, 89.