INDEX. 



427 



Tennyson, Alfred, the poet, quoted, 6, 7, 

 57, 183, 247, 319. 



Theophrastus, an ancient writer, on the 

 Agrostis, 95. 



Thomson, James, the poet, quoted, 32, 

 100. 



Thought, freedom of, asserted, 311 ; inde- 

 structibility of, 392. 



Toaldo, the Italian meteorologist, his 

 researches into the phenomena of cli- 

 mate, 31. 



Tournefort, the naturalist, his description 

 of the Solanum nigrum, 84, 85, 87 ; 

 quoted, 96, 234 ; on the medical proper- 

 ties of the daisy, 147. 



Tragus, the botanist, his account of the 

 Solanum nigrum, 86. 



Triticum repens, the, described, 93. 



Tschudi, M., the naturalist, his description 

 of a red-billed crow, quoted, 69, 70. 



Tulip, the, described, 152, 153 ; its intro- 

 duction into Europe, 153 ; its cultiva- 

 tion, 154, 155. 



Twilight, phenomena of, 205. 



VERTEBRATA, the, orders of, 362. 

 Vole, the Arctic. See ARCTIC VOLE. 

 Voltaire, Francois Arouet, his popularisa- 

 tion of the Newtonian philosophy, 713. 



WALTON, Isaak, his eulogium on the 

 strawberry, 244. 



Water, the crystallisation of, instanced and 

 described, 36, 37. 



Water-lily, the, described by Keats and 

 Mrs Hemans, 244 ; by Wordsworth, 

 245 ; analysis of its form, 245 ; of the 

 East, described, 246. 



Water-ranunculus, the, description of, 167. 



Winters, instances of some severe, 29, 30. 



Winter-time, appropriate for the observa- 

 tion of celestial phenomena, 3 ; the 

 passing away of, and merging into 

 spring, 96, 97. 



Withering, the botanist, on the Solanum 

 nigrum, 86. 



Withers, George, the poet, his tribute to 

 the daisy, quoted, 148. 



Wood-louse, the, its characteristics enu- 

 merated, 169-172 ; another species of, 

 i?3- 



Wordsworth, William, the poet, his cele- 

 bration of the daisy, quoted, 149, 150 , 

 his poem on the lesser celandine, 1661 

 his reference to the lily of the valley, 

 245 ; quoted, 375. 



Wren, the, described by Bishop Mant, 63, 

 64 ; its habits stated, 64. 



YELLOW WATER-LILY, the, description of, 

 245- 



ZODIAC, the, constellations of, 114, 115. 

 Zootoca pyrrhogas tra, the, described, 70. 



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