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INDEX. 



COL 



riage of his daughter, Maria Eliza- 

 beth, to Major von Humboldt, i. 8, 9 



ColombjVon, origin of the family of, i.l 1 



Comagillas, hot mineral springs of, i. 330 



Combaima, Valley of, i. 301 



Condamine, La, his trigonometrical 

 labours, i. 254, 323 



Condor, the, in the Andes, i. 314 



Condorcet, his death, i. 232 



Constant, Benjamin, his remark on 

 principles, ii. 353 



Constantine, Prince, of Saxe-Weimar, 

 his education, i. 161 



Cordier, Pierre-Louis Antoine, notice of 

 him, and of his friendship with 

 Humboldt, ii. 39 



Cornelius, his position secured, ii. 272. 

 His acceptance, 273 



Corondeles, Baron de, his kindness to 

 Humboldt, i. 317 



Corsica, richness of its botanical trea- 

 sures, i. 239 



Cosa, Juan de la, his map of the world, 

 ii. 127. Humboldt's discovery of his 

 map in Paris, 216 



'Cosmos,' Humboldt reads one of the 

 early chapters of, at Jena, i. 208. 

 Picture of Humboldt's painstaking la- 

 bour best owed upon, ii. 127. The first 

 conception of, i. 197 ; ii.*112, 113, 308. 

 Progress of the first two volumes of, 

 221. Commencement of the publica- 

 tion of, 223. The word ' Cosmos,' 224. 

 General discussion of, 306-317. Re- 

 view of it in its scientific aspect, 357. 

 Buschmann's index to, 360. Sum- 

 mary of the book, 368 



Cotopaxi, mountain of, i. 305, 306, 311. 

 Eruption of, 326. Minerals from, 350 



Cotta, Baron von, his proposal to Hum- 

 boldt, ii. 126. Declines to publish 

 William von Humboldt's 'Collected 

 Works,' 195. His suggestion to 

 Humboldt, 221. His printing-office 

 at Augsburg, 221. Publishes Hum- 

 boldt's ' Miscellaneous Writings,' 373 



Cotta, Bernhard, the geologist, makes 

 water-gruel of ' Cosmos,' ii. 371 



Cousin, Victor, endeavour to secure his 

 election as a foreign associate of the 

 Berlin Academy, ii. 176 

 Cow-tree, milk of the. i. 273 

 Crailsheim, A. von Humboldt's inspec- 

 tion of the alum works at, i. 127 

 Cuba, Humboldt's visit to, i. 290 

 Cuchilague, Humboldt at, i. 329 

 Cuen9a, Humboldt at, i. 323 

 Cuernaraca, Humboldt at, i. 329 

 Culm, Bishop of, his sermons at Berlin, 

 i. 38 



DEL 



Cumana, Loffling's botanical expedition 

 to the coast of, i. 255. Humboldt at, 

 263. His letter to his brother from, 

 263. Notice of, 263, note. Partly 

 destroyed by an earthquake, 264. 

 Position of the town, 264. Magni- 

 ficent vegetation of, 265 



Cumberland, Duke of, present at the 

 Scientific Association at Berlin, ii. 

 137. See Ernest Adolphus 



Curtius, Ernest, tutor to Prince 

 Frederick William, ii. 348. His 

 poem of ' The Parrot of the Atures,' 

 348. Letters from Humboldt to, 

 348, 352, 353 



Cuvier, Baron Georges, at Paris, i. 233. 

 At school with Schiller, 233. His 

 investigations, 234. Biographical 

 sketch of, ii. 24. His lectures, 178. 

 His attack upon Goethe's theory of 

 the unity of structure in vertebrate 

 animals, 178 



Cuvier, Frederic, younger brother of 

 Georges, notice of him, ii. 34. His 

 part in the ' Histoire naturelle des 

 Mammifers,' 34 



Czreitszef, Minister of War at St. 

 Petersburg, his kindness to Hum- 

 boldt, i. 377 



DACHERODEN, Caroline von, mar- 

 ried to William von Hiimboldt, i. 

 32, 163 



Dahlmann's ' Science of Government,' 

 ii. 269, 270. Nominated to a va- 

 cancy at Breslau, 272 



D'Alembert, his work, i. 233 



Darien Indians, i. 294 



Darow proposed to accompany Hum- 

 boldt to Asia, i. 371, note 



Daru, French Comptroller of the 

 Household, i. 362 



Dashwood, i. 360 



Decandolle, the elder, i. 345 



Decandolle, Auguste-Pyrame, notice of 

 him, ii. 37. His friendship with 

 Humboldt, 37, 38 



Defrance, Louis-Marin, notice of him 

 and of his friendship with Humboldt, 

 ii. 39 



Delambre, his measurements of the 

 French meridian line, i. 231. At 

 Paris, 233. Letters from Humboldt 

 to, 234, 317, 332. His birth and 

 death, ii. 27, 28 



Delessert, Baron Benjamin, ii. 169 



Delessert, Gabriel, prefect of police, 

 his wife, ii. 169. Her parents, 169 



D'Elhuyar, his death, i. 298 



