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INDEX 



Coniferous trees, 199 

 Cuckoo-spit, 177 

 Cuvier on barnacles, 66 

 Cyclas, 162 

 Cypris-larva of barnacle, 76 



DAPHNIA, 170 



Darwin on alpine and arctic plants, 

 89; on climbing plants, 157, 

 160 ; his Origin of Species, 304 ; 

 his example, 310 



Darwin and Pertz on clover, 126 



Dasypeltis, 308 



Dasypoda, 279 



Death-watches, 225 



Descartes, 256 



Dillenius, 136 



Dog, it ; hand of, 39 



Dolomedes, 272 



Dormouse, 181 



Droop of boughs, 44 



Dust of rooms, 9, 51 



ECHIDNA, 181 



Echinus, 182 



Egg-eating snake, 308 



Eggs, number of, in sea and fresh- 

 water animals, 177 



Elder, 152, 154 



Elm, 150, 151, 152, 197, 202 



England, its variety of rocks, 223 ; 

 its natural advantages, 224 



Evergreen trees, 201 



Examples, great, 310 



Excursion, the Natural History, 143 



FACE, the human, 202 



False-scorpions, 105 



Field-cricket, 185 



File-fishes, 182 



Finger-tips, 28 



Fir, Scotch, 199 ; Silver, 199 ; Spruce, 



200 



Float-grass, 267 

 Flowers, wind- and insect-pollinated, 



269 



Freshwater fauna and flora, 103 

 Frog, transformation of, 78 



Frothing hopper, 177 

 Furniture-beetles, 225 

 Furze, a skeleton lesson on, 286 



GARDEN-SPIDER, 232 



Gardens, old English, 57 

 I General knowlege paper, 22 



Geology and travel, 259 

 i Giacomini on third eyelid in rnan, 



203 

 | Glacial period and arctic plants, 89 



Globe-fishes, 182 



Globe-flower, 294 



Glowworm, 45 



Glyceria, 267 



Godard on humble-bees, 284 



Gold-fish, 12 



Grasses, 263 



HALICTUS, 278 



Hand, the human, 27 



Hawthorn, 152, 153; meaning of the 



word, 175 

 Hawthorn-fly, 153 

 Hedge and ditch, 151 

 Hedgehog, 180, 183 

 Hedge-maple, 152, 154, 175, 198 

 Herring, 137 

 Hessian fly, 154 



Holland, arts borrowed from, 60 

 Holland, Sir Henry, 258 

 Holly-fly, 17 

 Holstein, 219 

 Honey-dew, 24 

 Hop, 157 



Horse, hand of, 39, 40 

 Horse-chestnut, 44, 61, 151, 198, 202, 



208 



House, life in the, 8 

 House-cricket, 184 

 House-flies, 103 

 House-spiders, 213 

 Houses of fifteenth century, 10 

 Huber on humble-bees, 281 

 Humble-bees, 279 



INDUSTRIES of wild bees, 273 

 Insects, leaf-mining, 15 ; transforma- 



