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INDEX 



Fishes, senses of, 1 344*45 



teeth of, 1342-43 



telescope, 1356 



the (constellation), 78 



trigger, 1 355-5$ 

 Flamingo, 1636 

 Flamsteed, 65, 427 

 Flies, 1444 



fairy, 1449-58 

 Flogel, 818 

 Flood. See Deluge 

 Flora of the Alps, 513-1 5 



of Australia and Mesozoic com- 

 pared, 886 



of carboniferous period, 468, 473, 

 873 



of New Zealand and Mesozoic com- 

 pared, 886 



dawn of modern, 874 



fossil, 959-61 



Mesozoic, 871-77 



Permian, 472 



seashore, 1233-37 

 Flower, the, 867 

 Flowers, clock of, 1043 



colors of, 959, 1061-68, 1104 



dioecious, 870 



fertilization of, 871, 1027-37, 1064- 

 68 



and insects, 894-95, 897, 957, 968, 

 1028-30, 1064-68, 1069-77, 1 112 



mimicry in, 1070 



monoecious, 870 



odors of, 1107-9 



queer, 1068-77 



sleep of, 1005 

 Fly, house, 1525-27 

 Fog, 823 

 Fogs, red, 831 

 Fohn, the, 831 

 Fomalhaut, 57 

 Foraminifera, 471, 1307 

 Forbes, E., 1521 

 Forest formations, 1 135-46 

 Forsch, 1172 

 Forskal's region, 940 

 Forster, 819 

 Forster's region, 940 

 Fossil, definition of, 443 

 Fox, 1542, 1567, 1576, 1579-81, 1616-17 



the Little, 78 

 Frog, 1379-82 



Fruits, 898, 1002-16, 1104, 1647 

 Fulton, T. W., 1 1 06 

 Fumaroles, 539 

 Fungi, 454, 887, 889, 1189-1204, 1204-8 



colors of, 1193, 1197 



distribution of, 1201-4 



food of, 1191-92, 1206 



growth of, 1106-7, II93-94 

 odors of, 1106-7, 1196 



organs of, 1198-99 



shapes of, 1196-97 

 spores of, 1199 



Fungus (giant puffball), 1194 

 (Jews' Ears), 1197 

 (liver), 1196 

 (stinkhorn), 1194 

 (Tremella mesenterica), 1197 



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GADID.E, 483 



Gaertner, 1003 



Galaxy. See Milky Way 



Galileo, 135, 154, 354-55, 377 



Galle, Dr., 806 



Gall-flies, 1406, 1407 



Gamelin, 1266 



Ganges, the, 624, 625 



Ganoids, 483, 485-86 



Gasteropoda, 459 



Gauchos, 1579, 1581 



Gecko, 1392-93 



Gemini, 96, 122, 124 



Genera Plantarum, 995-96 



Generations, alternate, 964-65 



alternation of, 964-65 

 Geological periods, 872-74, 1646 



duration of, 453-54 



table of, 452 



Geological vegetable kingdom, 454-56 

 Geology, 439 

 Georgians, 1671 

 Georgium Sidus, 428 

 Geysers, 520-22 

 Giant Orion, the, 78, 96 

 Gibbons, 1529, 1547 

 Ginko-tree, 876, 884 

 Giraffe, the (Camelopardus), 78 



the, 1532, 1549 

 Glacial period, 496 

 Glacier, of the Aar, 512-13 



of the Aletsch, 506, 513 



of the Grindelwald, 512 

 Glaciers, 502-16 



of the Andes, 505 



of the Caucasus, 505, s"o6 



of Himalayas, 506 



of Norway and Sweden, 506 



of the Pyrenees, 505-6 



of the Rocky Mountains, 505 



of Switzerland, 506 



of the Tyrol, 506 

 Glaisher, 776-77, 807 

 Globes, celestial, 65 

 Glucose, 969 

 Gobi, Desert of, 661-62 

 Goethe, 895, 998-90, 1002, 1294 

 Goldschmidt, 400 

 Gorilla, 1550 

 Gould, Dr., 171, 188, 191 

 Gourami, 1629 

 Grallae, 489 



Graminaceae, 923-24, 954 

 Grass, 1010, 1082-83, UM, 1144-46 

 Grasses, 938, 943-45, 954, 1031-32 

 Grasshoppers, 1435 



