INDEX. 



439 



MON 



jMonge, at Paris, i. 233 



Montauban, Marquise de, Humboldt's 



lectures at the house of, ii. Ill 

 Montes, Commodore, at Havana, i 



290 



Montjoye, Comtesse de, ii. 169 

 Montufar, Don Carlos, accompanies 

 Humboldt in the ascent of Chimbo- 

 razo, i. 311. His suffering on Anti- 

 sana, 313. His death, 317. AtVera 

 Cruz and Havana, 335. In Phila- 

 delphia, 335 



Montufar, Senora Kosa, i. 318 

 Moon, eclipse of the, i. 295. The Peru- 

 vians' notion of the, 322 

 Moran, mines of, i. 330 

 Moravians, their house at Gnadau, in 



.Saxony, i. 68 

 3Ioreau, his invasion of the Duchy of 



Wurtemberg, i. 153 



Moritz, his lectures on the aesthetic in 

 art, i. 60. Specimens of his matter, 

 60. Lectures of, ii. 108 

 Moscow, Humboldt at, i. 377. His re- 

 turn to, 379. Honours heaped on 

 Humboldt on his return from the 

 Ural Mountains, 384 

 Mosquitoes of Guiana, i. 285 

 Mourum, i. 377 

 Miiffling, Generaljvon, gives Berghaus a 



letter to Humboldt in Paris, ii. 61 

 Miiller, Johannes von, his observations 

 in a garden-house, i. 356. A. von 

 Humboldt introduced to, 96. His 

 conversation, Wl,note. His distinc- 

 tion, ii. 92 



Miiller, Chancellor, death of, ii. 347 

 Mund, Herr Christ., i. 113 

 Munich, meeting of Scientific Associa- 

 tion at, ii. 128 

 Mursinsk, i. 378 

 Murviedro, mountain near, i. 241 

 Music, A. and W. von Humboldt devoid 



of any taste for, i. 26, ii. 82, 188 

 .Mustug, height of, i. 367 

 Mutis, Dr., at Santa Fe de Bogota, i. 

 299. His kindness to A. von Hum- 

 boldt, 316. His assiduity, 332 

 JMuyscas Indians, mythology of the, i. 

 299 



NAGLER, Von, at the University of 

 Gottingen, i. 70 



Naila, condition of the mining station 

 of, i. 125. District of, progressing, 

 138 

 Hapo, Rio, wanderings of Requena to 



the, i. 255 

 .^Napoleon, becomes Emperor, i. 342. His 



OLT 



treatment of Humboldt and Bon- 

 pland, 344. Seated as conqueror at 

 Berlin, 361. His ill-will to Halle 

 University, 362. Brings the greater 

 part of Europe under his sway, ii. 3. 

 Receives almost divine homage at 

 Weimar and Erfurt, 51 

 Napoleon, Louis, hated and despised by 

 Humboldt, ii. 173, 174. Who studi- 

 ously avoids any connection with, 

 354, 387. Prepares for the extension 

 of the French frontier on the north- 

 east, 354 

 Natural history first raised to a science 



in Germany, i. 72 



Natural philosophy, Humboldt's interest 

 in, i. 78. Scheme of, promulgated by 

 Schelling and Hegel, ii. 110, 111. 

 Humboldt's lectures upon the incite- 

 ments to the study of, 115 

 Neander, ii. 91 



Nee, his kindness to Humboldt, i. 246 

 Negro, Rio, A. von Humboldt on the, i. 

 276. Impenetrable forests of the, 

 288 

 Nemours, Duke of, his visit to Berlin, 



ii. 171 



Neptunic theory, i. 171 

 Neumann, Herr, A. von Humboldt in 



the house of, at Dresden, i. 107 

 Neviansk, i. 378 

 Newton, Sir I., his age at his death, ii. 



144 



Nicholas, Emperor, of Russia, offers to 

 pay the cost of an expedition to Asia 

 under Humboldt, i. 373. Humbcldt's 

 dedication of the 'Asie Centrale' 

 to him, 383, note. Humboldt's rela- 

 tionship with the Government and 

 Court of, ii. 151. Humboldt dedi- 

 cates a new work to him, 212. Goes 

 to London, 68 

 Nocera, baths of, i. 353 

 Nijnii-Issetsk, iron furnaces of, i. 378 

 Nij nii-Novgorod, i. 377 

 Nijnii-Tagilsk, i. 378. Platinum fields 



of, 378 

 Nijnii-Turinsk, i. 378 



OBI, river, i. 378 

 Ohm, his eminence, ii. 92 



Oken, his patriotism and liberal views, 

 ii. 127,130 



Olbers, Humboldt's hospitality to, in 

 Paris, ii. 60. Testimony to, 133 



Oliveda, at Loxa, his assiduity, i. 332 



Oltmanns, Jabbo, at the University 

 of Gottingen, i. 70, 360. Under- 

 takes the astronomical portions of one 



