History of Animals (Historia Animalium)

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BOOK III.

CH.
✓ 1. Of the organs of generation: in fishes, birds, and serpents; and in viviparous animals.
2. Of the veins, according to Syennesis and Diogenes of Apollonia.
3, 4. Of the same according to Polybus; and of the true system of the veins or blood-vessels.
5. Of sinews.
6. Of fibre, and of the clot of blood.
7. Of the bones.
8. Of cartilage, or gristle.
9. Of horns, nails, and hooves.
✓ 10, 11. Of hair and skin; of baldness and of grey hair.
12. Of feathers; and of the influence of climate and season on the colour of feathers and of hair.
13. Of the membranes of the bones and of the brain.
14, 15. Of membranous parts: of the omentum or caul, and of the bladder.
16. Of flesh.
17. Of fat and suet.
18. Of the pupil of the eye.
19. Of blood in health and disease.
20. Of marrow and of milk.
21. Of milk; of the sheep and oxen of Epirus; of rennet and cheese.
✓ 22. Of the seed of animals.

BOOK IV.

1. Of the several genera of bloodless animals; of the poulpe or octopus, and of other molluscs or cuttlefishes.
2, 3. Of crustaceans.
4. Of testaceans.
5. Of sea-urchins.
6. Of tethya or ascidians; and of sea-nettles or sea-anemones.
7. Of insects; and of certain anomalous marine animals.
8. Of the senses: of the mole's eye; of hearing, smell and taste in fishes, and in bloodless animals.
9. Of voice and sound: in fishes, birds, and certain other animals.
10. Of sleep and waking; of the catching of fish asleep; of dreaming.
11. Of the nature of male and female; of the eel; and of the fishes called capon-fish.

BOOK V.

✓ 1. Of generation, spontaneous and hereditary.
✓ 2. Of pairing and copulation: in birds and in viviparous quadrupeds.
3. Of the same in oviparous quadrupeds.
4. Of the same in serpents and other animals of long bodies.
5. Of the same in fishes; and on the anomalous generation of the partridge.