364 



The Realm of Nature 



The Figures refer to the sections. 



Environment, 403, 421 



Eocene rocks, 350 



Equator, 91 



Equinoxes, 121, 123; precession 

 of, 115 



Erie, Lake, 330, 369 



Erratics, 338 



Eruptions, volcanic, 296, 297 



Erzgebirge, 385 



Estuaries, 231 



Ether, the, 60 



Ethiopian Realm, 412 



Etive, Loch, 339 



Eurasia, 378 



Europe, 384-392 ; people of, 426 



Evaporation, 70, 159 



Evolution, organic, 402 ; of con- 

 tinents, 353 



Exclusiveness, 34 



Expansion by heat, 67, 68 



Experiments, 18 



Eyre, Lake, 372 



FAHRENHEIT scale, 440 

 Faults, 290 

 Faunal Realms, 410 

 Felspar, 41, 286, 310 

 Ferre!' s Law, 89 

 Figure of the Earth, 82 

 Fingal's Cave, 266 

 Firths, 231 

 Fjords, 229 

 Flinders Range, 372 

 " Floating " of dust in air, 161 

 Floes, ice, 234 

 Floods in rivers, 324 

 Floral Zones, 405 

 Fog, 167 

 Foraminifera, 273 

 Forests, 407, 408, 417 

 Form, 30 

 Fossils, 343-345 

 Foucault's pendulum, 87 

 Frigid Zones, 125 

 Fringing reefs, 280 

 Function of lakes, 334 ; of living 

 creatures, 398 ; of the sea, 250 



GALL'S Projection, 445 



Ganges River, 269, 318, 331, 



383 



Genus, 396 

 Geography, 430 

 Geoid, 83 



Geological theories, 341 

 Geysers, 316 



Ghats, Eastern and Western, 383 

 Giant's Causeway, 392 

 Glacial action, 351, 352 

 Glaciers, 336-338 

 Globigerina ooze, 273, 275 

 Gobi, desert, 381, 406, 428 

 Gradient (barometric), 175' 

 Granite, 29, 41, 43, 310 

 Graphic representations, 444 

 Gravitation, 19, 36-38, 52 

 Great Basin, 365, 406 

 Great Divide, 369 

 Great Dividing Range, 371 

 Great Fault of Scotland, 390 

 Great Lakes, 333, 369 

 Great Plateau of Africa, 374 

 Great Salt Lake, 365 

 Greenland, 340, 363 

 Green mud, 271 

 Guiana, High Plain, 359 

 Guinea, current, 243 

 Gulf Stream, 244, 279 

 Gyroscope, 51 



HAIL, 171 



Halley's comet, 132 



Heat, 65-74; in air, 163, 164; 



in rocks, 306 ; of the Sun, 118 ; 



in water, 227 

 Height of land, 369 

 Heredity, 403 



Highlands of Scotland, 390 

 Himalaya Mountains, 303, 380 

 Hindu Kush, 379 

 Hoang Ho, see Yellow River 

 Hoar-frost, 165 

 Humidity, 158 

 Huron, Lake, 369 

 Hurricanes, 208 



