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of Forests to, 70 ; Drying up of the Island of Santa Cruz, 71 ; Adirondack 

 State Park, 84. 

 (C.) EXPLORATIONS AND RESEARCHES. 



General : Tlie Unexplored Regions of the World, 213. 



The Ocean and its Depths. The Atlantic: Cruise of the Challenger, 

 243; The Mediteri-anean : Life in, 213; Exploration of its Algieran Coast, 

 242; the Adriatic in 1870, 215; Off the Coast of North America: Gulf 

 ofStLawrence in 1872,210; St. George's Bank,218; Improved Dredges, 215. 



The Arctic Regions : Arctic Committee in Great Britain, 225 ; Proper 

 Gateway to the Pole, 226 ; The German North Polar Expedition of 1870, 

 223 ; The American Polaris Expedition, 237 ; King Carl Land, 220 ; Kecent 

 Explorations in Spitzbergen, 262 ; Drift-wood in Nova Zembla, 225 ; Par- 

 ry's Expedition, 221. The Antarctic Regions : Proposed Exploration of 

 Dr. Neumayer, 221. 



North America. A lasha : Dall's Explorations, 246 ; British North 

 America: Canadian in 1873, 235; Dacota: Northern Boundary Survey, 

 257 ; Yellowstone Expedition, 261 ; Rochy Mountain Region : Yellowstone 

 Park Report for 1872, 222 ; Barlow's Exploration of Country in 1872, 232 ; 

 Do. of Captain W. A. Jones in 1873, 254 ; Hayden's Explorations, 226, 232, 

 236,248; Wheeler's Explorations in 1871,223; in 1873,251; Powell's Ex- 

 ploration of the Colorado, 258. Middle America : American Survey for In- 

 teroceanic Canal, 255. South America : Brazilian Coast Pilot, 237 ; As- 

 cent of Mount Meiggs, 228. 



Polynesia and the Indian Ocean. Moluccas : Bernstein's Travels, 229 ; 

 New Guinea : Meyer, 230 ; Albertis, 237. 



Asia. Siberia : Russian Explorations in, 229 ; China : of the Archiman- 

 drite Palladius, 224 ; of the Abbe David, 234 ; Palestine : British Surveys 

 in, 225 ; Beke on the True Mount Sinai, 234. 



Africa : Nachtigal in Central, 230. Australia : Giles' Explorations in 

 1872, 231. 



See also Geographical Summary. 



G. NATURAL HISTORY AND ZOOLOGY ,(lxxv, Lxxxii) 263 



(a.) NATURAL HISTORY IN GENERAL. 



Microscopy : Nutrition of Vibrios, 268 ; Ehrenberg on IMicroscopic Life, 

 269 ; Smith on Diatoms, 270 ; Cohn on Bacteria, 373 ; Formation of Pig- 

 ments by Bacteria, 269 ; Peculiar Bodies in Blood of Fever Patients, 300. 

 Darwinism : Huizinga on Abiogenesis, 299. MiEcellaneous : Effect of 

 Seasons on Distribution of Animals and Plants, 263 ; Acclimatization So- 

 ciety of Cincinnati, 265 ; of Paris, 338 ; Anderson School of Natural History, 

 266 ; Gay's History of Chili, 268. 



(b.) ZOOLOGY IN GENERAL. 



Taxidermy : Carbolic Solution for Anatomical Preparations, 270. Muse- 

 ums : At Princeton, the Oldest in America, 264 ; Godeffroy, at Hamburg, 

 268 ; of Yale College, 316. Menageries : Zoological Society, London, 267 ; 

 Central Park, New York, 338. Aquaria : Brighton, 267, 336 ; Proposed, 

 in Central Park, New York. 338. Zoological Stations : Anderson School, 

 at Penikese, 266. Zoological Explorations : Of the Challenger, 294 ; of 

 Prof. Cope, 319. See also Explorations, under Geography. 



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