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INDEX. 



HAY, aromatic, an instance of, 258. 



Heat, the action of, described, 313-317. 



Heavens, the, movement in, 115, 116. 



Hebrews, the, their conception of the 

 earth's supports in space, 107. 



Hedgerows, the, wild climbing plants of, 

 382, 383. 



Hepatica, the, described, 168, 169. 



Herbs, the food of the primitive Egyptians, 

 93, 94- 



Hipparchus, the astronomer, his discovery 

 of the precession of the equinoxes, 116 ; 

 his astronomical researches, 291, 292. 



Homer, the poet, his reference to the 

 Great Bear, 10, 19; and to Orion, 15; 

 his scientific knowledge, 19; his con- 

 ception of the earth's shape, 103, 104 ; 

 quoted, 210. 



Honeycomb, the, of the bee, described, 

 85- 



Honeysuckle, the, celebrated by Scott, 

 Burns, and Drayton, 380. 



Hood, Thomas, the poet, quoted, 190. 



Horace, the poet, quoted, 103. 



House leek, the, in the Alps, described, 

 418. 



Houston, Professor, his table of the dis- 

 tribution of wheat and barley, 324, 325. 



Howitt, Mary, the poetess, on the dragon- 

 fly* 175- 



Hugi, M., the Swiss naturalist, his dis- 

 covery of the Arctic vole, 49-51. 



Humanity, the future of, 393. 



Human power, limitation of, 394. 



Hunt, Leigh, his poem on the grasshopper, 

 quoted, 274. 



Huygens, the savant, his researches into 

 the laws of gravitation, in. 



IMMORTALITY, an emblem of, in the meta- 

 morphosis of the caterpillar, 402, 403. 



Infusoria, the, number of, 365. 



Inglis, Henry, the traveller, quoted, 142. 



Insects, the various orders of, enumerated, 

 280 ; the number of species of, 363, 

 364- 



JONSON, Ben, the dramatist, quoted, 207, 

 248, 400. 



KANE, Dr Elisha, the American explorer, 

 his Arctic experiences, 39. 



Keats, the poet, quoted, 29, 168, 190, 244, 



298. 

 Kepler, the astronomer, his adoption of 



the theory of the earth's rotundity, no. 



LACTANTIUS, on the non-existence of the 

 Antipodes, 108. 



La Hire, the French botanist, his theory of 

 the rise of sap, 134. 



Landscape, a wintry, described, 5. 



Leaf-wasp, the, its mode of depositing its 

 larvse, 71, 72. 



Le Monnier, the French astronomer, on 

 the theory of the nutation of the earth, 

 123. 



Lesser celandine, the, celebrated by 

 Wordsworth, 166 ; described, 166. 



Libellula cancellata, described, 177. 



Libellula grandis, described, 178. 



Libellulae, the family of, its characteristics, 

 174-183. See DRAGON-FLY. 



Libelluiites, the family of, its general 

 characteristics, 179, 180. 



Liberty, a plea for intellectual, 407. 



Life, origin of, speculated upon, 390, 391. 



Light, the nature of, 192, 193 ; physiologi- 

 cal facts concerning, 194-196 ; the theory 

 of, 197, 198 ; chemical action of, 312, 313. 



Liliacese, the family of, its characteristics, 

 249, 250. 



Lily of the field, the, of the Gospels, de- 

 scribed, 242, 243. 



Lily of the valley, the, described by Shake- 

 speare, 242 ; its native countries, 242. 



Little Bear, the, position of, n, 12; dis- 

 tinct from the Great Bear, 12 ; first recog- 

 nised by the Phoenicians, 20. 



Little Vulcan, the, butterfly, described by 

 Agassiz, 71. 



Longfellow, the poet, his description of 

 Orion, 13 ; quoted, 128, 129. 



Lychnis, the, described, 418. 



MACGILLIVRAY, the naturalist, quoted, 59, 



60. 



Macmillan, Rev. Hugh, quoted, 4244. 

 Malpighi, the botanist, his theory of the 



rise of sap, 135. 



Mammalia, the, summarised, 360. 

 Manilius, the poet, his references to the 



Great Bear, quoted, 20, 21. 

 Mant, Bishop, quoted, 63, 64. 



