INDEX. 



441 



PLA 



Platinum, native American, i. 339. Of 

 the Ural Mountains, 373 



Plautus' ' Captivi,' King Frederick 

 William IV. persuaded by Humboldt 

 to attend a performance of, ii. 243 



Poggendorff, his distinction, ii. 92 



Polewskoi, i. 378 



Pomerania, delineation of the relative 

 heights of the mountain ranges of, ii. 

 225 



Popayan, i. 302 



Popocatepetl, height of, i. 334 



Porth, Professor, i. 220, 221. His 

 treasures, 221 



Porphyry of the Andes, i. 304, 330 



Pourret, the Abbe, his kindness to A. 

 von Humboldt, i. 246 



Praslin, Duchesse de, educated by Hen- 

 riette Mendelssohn, i. 40 



Press, censorship of the, i. 63 



Prevost, Pierre, i. 345 



Princess Royal of England, her arrival 

 in Berlin, ii. 352. Humboldt's 

 letter to the Princess of Prussia 

 respecting her, 352 



Printers' errors, ii. 221 



Prony, surrenders his instruments for 

 the expedition to Egypt, i. 231. At 

 Lieursaint, 232 



Provencal, ii. 36 



Prussia, state of, in 1797, i. 211. Her 

 vacillation and indecision, ii. 153. 

 Humboldt's wish for increasing the 

 prestige of, 176. Retrograde move- 

 ments in, ii. 345. Vacillation of 

 Prussian policy, 346. Demonstration 

 against ' Hassenpflug,' 346. Moral 

 degradation of, and subsequent joy 

 in, ii. 353 



Prussia, Princess of (now Empress of 

 Germany and Queen of Prussia), 

 at Weimar, i. 209. Her retirement at 

 Potsdam, ii. 348. Humboldt's letters 

 to her, 349. Her interest in the 

 Orleans family, ii. 173. Humboldt's 

 relationship with, 347 



Prussia, Prince Frederick William of, 

 his education and tutors, ii. 350 



Prussia, Prince of (now Emperor of 

 Germany), his character, ii. 349. 

 His difficult position, 349. Pro- 

 claimed regent, 352 



Puebla, volcanoes of, i. 334 

 Purace, volcano of, i. 302 



Puruguayan language of Quito, i. 320 

 Putter, his exposition of German law 



at the University of Gottingen, i. 72 

 Pyramids of Egypt, Professor Witte's 



fantastic explanation of, i. 88 

 Pyrenees, the, in April, i. 240 



EEI 



AUERCOTILLO, A. von Humboldt 

 \-l at, i. 325 



Queretaro, visit to, i. 330 



Quetelet, calls on Humbcldt in Paris 

 in 1822, ii. 57. His 'Notices sur 

 le Baron F. A. H. de Humboldt,' 57. 

 Accompanies Humboldt home, 58. 



Quindiu, pass of, i. 301. 



Quito, work of Don Jorge Juan in, i. 

 254. Destroyed by an earthquake, 

 264. Cordilleras near, 271. Hum- 

 boldt's journey to, 300-304. The 

 town and its inhabitants, 305. Hum- 

 boldt's departure from, 319. Former 

 language of, 320. Condition of the 

 province of, 320. Seeds obtained at, 

 332. Humboldt's papers upon the 

 Plain of, ii. 224, 225 



"DACKWITZ, Baron von, 



Xt tion of Spanish and American 

 minerals, i. 215 



Radowitz, Director of the (Educational 

 Commission, ii. 103. Nomination of 

 to the Erfurt Parliament, 346 



Rahel, the Sibyl, a disciple of Lessing 

 and Kant, i. 40. Circle which 

 gathered round her, 40, 107. Her 

 remark respecting Berlin, ii. 89 



Railway, opening of the, between Berlin 

 and Potsdam, ii. 228 



Ranke, elected a Knight of the Order 

 of Merit, ii. 242, 243 



Rastatt, Congress of, i. 147 



Rauch, his friendship with Humboldt, 

 ii. 83. His monument to Bliicher, 

 at Berlin, 83. Associated with Hum- 

 boldt, 103. His busts of Humboldt, 

 387. His death, 400. His venera- 

 tion for Humboldt, 401. 



Raumer, Friedrich von, his researches 

 in the field of universal history, ii. 

 91. Founds the Scientific Society at 

 Berlin, 124. Humboldt's letter to, 

 125. Humboldt's remark to, 262. 

 His address in presence of the King, 

 267. His answer to Humboldt, 

 279 



Ray, his study of botany, i. 57 



Real del Monte, mines of, i. 330 



Real Socorro, Marquis del, in Cuba, i. 

 290 



Recamier, Madame, Humboldt at the 

 drawing-room of, ii. J79 



Reimarus, his ' Wolfenbiittler Frag- 

 ment*,' i. 99 



Reimer, publishes William von Hum- 

 boldt's ' Collected Works,' ii. 195 



