1709 



Sunbirds, 1551 



Sun-dew, the, 1073-74 



Suns, numberless, 28, 29, 48-49 



Survival of the fittest, 1466, 1484 



Swallow, 1636 



Swamps, 628-34, 1137-38 



Swan, the, 78, 123 



Swartz's region, 941 



Swinburne, 1073 



Swine, 1532 



Synapta Digitata, 1362-63 



TADPOLE, 1379-82 

 Tailor-bird, 1633 

 Tangles, 1231, 1248-49 

 Tapir, 1553, 1554 

 Taurus, 123-24 

 Taxonomy, 1298 

 Tebbad, 830 

 Tef, 945 



Telegraph-plant, 1041, 1044 

 Telescope, the, 49, 333'37 



the Cassegrain, 243-44 



equatorial, 249-53, 258-61 



eye-pieces, 245-47 



Lick, 256 



reflecting, 241 



refracting, 238 



Lord Rosse's, 253 



Yerkes', 255 

 Telescopes, great, 253-61 



photographic, 262-66 

 Tendrils, 867, 1049-60, 1124-25 

 Termites, 1414, 1552 

 Tertiary period, 493, 674-75 



animals, 1532 

 Thallogens, 454, 482, 1000 

 Thallophytes, 958 

 Thallus, 1000 

 Theodoras, 64 

 Thistles, 1145-46, 1181, 1183 

 Three Kings, the, 77, 97 

 Thunberg's region, 941 

 Thunderstorms, 847-48 

 Tidal-action, 713-27 

 Tides, 713-27 



Tierra del Fuegians, 1664-66, 1678 

 Tigris, the, 624 

 Titmouse, 1630 

 Titus, law of, 397 

 Toad, 1382-83 

 Toadstool, 1200 

 Tocusso, 945 

 Torch-thistles, 1181, 1183 

 Tornado, 844, 852-58 

 Tortoise, 1394-98, 1399-1401 

 Tortoise-shell, 1397 

 Toucans, 1556 

 Tournefort, 986-90 

 Toxotes jaculator, 1576 

 Trade-winds, 659, 663, 834-36. 841-42 



Tree-frog, 1383 



-palms, 885 



-worship, 1078 

 Trees, 1030-31 



Australian, 1139 



California big, 876-84 



deciduous, 1 129 



nut, 1174-80 



poison, 1165, 1167-68, 1172, 1174 

 Tremendal, 631 

 Triangle, the, 78 

 Trias, 872 



Trichoptera, 1417-18 

 Trilobites, 457, 460, 471, 481, 671 

 Tritons, 1383 

 Truffle, 1201 

 Trumpet-tree, 1165 

 Tschudi, Jacbon, 877 

 Tundras, 582, 637 

 Turkeys, 1523, 1556 

 Turks, 1672, 1674 

 Turtle, 1398-1401 

 Twins, the, 78, 98 

 Tycho Brahe, 69, 303, 353 

 Tycho Brahe's star, 223-26 

 Typhoons, 845 



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ULLOA, DON ANTONIO DE, 807 

 Ulug Bekh, 67, 115, 118 

 Unguilata, 1536 

 Univalves, 459 

 Universe, the, 25-33, 5i 

 Upas-tree, 1172, 1 1 4 

 Uranography, Chinese, 76 

 Uranometria, Argentina, 66, 70 



(Bayer's), 64 

 Uranoscopus, 1569 

 Uranus, 131, 312, 33, S'7, 332, 426-30 



diameter of, 428 



revolution of, 428 



satellites of, 429-30 

 Urus, 1543 

 Utah, Great Salt Lake of, 579-81, 587 



desert of, 662 



VALUSNERIA SPIRALIS, 893, 1006 



Vanilla, 955, "52 



Van Tieghem, 967 



Vaucher, 1015 



Vaucluse, the Sorges of, 604-5 



Vedas, the, 501 



Vega, 51-52, 57, 3, 7^, 85, 87, 123, 



187, 193 



Vegetable-ivory, 1179 

 Vegetation, in Africa, 909-15 



in America, 915-26 



in Asia, 905-9 



in Australia, 926-29 



in Canary Isles, 932-34 



of the earth, 946-56 



