GENERAL INDEX. 



•«* The lumbers refer to the Paragraphs, not to the Pages, except in the case of the List of Authors, where 

 they refer to the page and the year in which the Author published : in such cases the word page and 

 letters' A..H. are prefixed. 



/i BBATE, Antonio, his work on agriculture, page 

 1221. A.D. 1808. 



Abcille, F., his work on agriculture, page 1217. A. D. 

 1791. 



Aberdeenshire, statistics of, 7852. 



Abortion in plants, 1683. 



Abyssinia, climate, surface, and soil of, 1067 ; agri- 

 cultural products of, 1068; live stock of, 1069; 

 agriculture of, 1070. 



Acclimating of plants, 1754 ; the more tender ani- 

 mals, 7390. 



Account books, farmers', 4886 



Accounts, keeping and auditing, 4708 ; keeping, 

 4883 ; necessity of a regular system of, 3581. 



Acid, fluoric, in animals, 1^24; muriatic, in animals, 

 1925 ; pyroligneous, distillery of, at Milburn in 

 Dunbartonshire, 7843. 



Acids, 1423 ; oxalic, 1424 ; acetic, 14:5 ; citric, 

 1426; malic, 1427; gallic, 1428; tartaric, 1429; 

 benzoic, 1430; prussic, 1431; vegetable, consti- 

 tuents of, 1432 ; animal, 1953. 



Adam, James, his work on agriculture, page 1210. 

 A. D. 1789. 



Adam, of Blair Adam, 7847. 



Adams, George, his work on agriculture, page 1212. 

 A. D. 1810. 



Adanson, Madame Aglae, her work on agriculture, 

 page 1218. A. D. 1822. 



Adansbnm digitata, 1109. 



Africa, general description of, 1066. 



Alter-grass on meadows. 5810. 



Agricultural Institution of Moegelin, 576. 



Agricultural Society, Australian, 104.3. 



Agricultural Societies of Hanover and Celle, 593. 



Agriculture among the Komans, decline of, 178. 



Agriculture, as influenced by climate, 124S; by tem- 

 perature and light, 1259; by elevation, 1260; b\ 

 soil, 1263; by moisture, 1264; by the state of so- 

 ciety, 1270 ; by civilisation, 1271 ; by political 

 circumstances, 1272; by religion, 1273; by the 

 character of a people, 1274. 



Agriculture, bibliography of, 7S96. 



Agriculture during the seventeenth century, 234. 



Agriculture, earliest Spanish works on, 713. 



Agriculture, history of, in the ages of antiquity, 5 ; 

 in Egypt, 8 ; among the Jews, 17 ; of the Greeks, 

 24; of the Persians and Carthaginians, &c. 36; 

 among the Romans, 42 ; during the middle ages 

 in Italy, 180; in France, 185; in Germany, 192; in 

 Britain, 195; in ultra-European countries, 47. 



Agriculture, improvement of, by reriningthe taste of 

 the purchasers of its products, and increasing the 

 knowledge of agricultural patrons, 7926; by the 

 better education of those engaged in it, 7930. 



Agriculture in England during the thirteenth and 

 fourteenth centuries, 210; in the fifteenth century, 

 211; in the sixteenth century, 216; early in the 

 sixteenth centurv, 221 ; during the reign of Eliza, 

 beth, 222. 



Agriculture in ultra-European countries during the 

 middle ages, 257, 258. 



Agriculture may be practised without any know- 

 ledge of its theory, 1286 ; object of the art of, 1287 ; 

 study of the science of, 1289. 



Agriculture of Britain, classification of the, 1280; 



improved by the Norman conquest, 204. 

 Agriculture of irrigation, geographical extension of 

 the, 1254 ; of manures and irrigation, 1255 ; of 

 draining and manures, 1256; of science, 1276; of 

 habit, 1277; barbarian, 1278; of savages, 1.7"; 

 of water-fed lands, 1266 ; of sun-burnt lands, 126/ ; 

 of mountains, 1268 ; common, 1269. 

 Agriculture, origin of and importance ; practice of, 

 in early times ; recent discoveries in , arrange- 



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ment of the subject in this work, pages 1 to 3; 



the operations, 3111 ; the physical circumstai ces 



affecting, 1258 ; traditional history of, 1, 2 ; works 



on, during the commonwealth, 250. 

 Agriculturists, commercial, the different kinds of, 



7724; itinerant, 7725; professional education of, 



7942. 

 Aigoin, his work on agriculture, page 1218. A. D. 



1805. 

 Ainslie, John, his works on agriculture, page 1212, 



A. D. lt>06. 

 Air, fresh, proper for domestic animals, 2076 ; 



noxious in wells, 1480. 

 Aiton, William, his works on agriculture, page 1212. 



A. D. 18u5. 

 Alamanni, his work on agriculture, page 1221. 



A. 1). 1764. 

 Alamanni, Luigi, his work on agriculture, page 



1221. A. D. 1546. 

 Albania, agriculture of, 758. 



Albertazzi, Jacopo Antonio, his work on ag (cul- 

 ture, page 1222. A. D. 1811. 

 Albrecht, J. F. E, his work on agriculture, page 



1219. A. D. 1775. 

 Albumen, 1344. 1406; in animals, 1939; use of, 



1940. 

 Alderson, John, M. D., his work on agriculture, 



page 1211. A. D. 1802. 

 J N lg;e, utility of the, 1333. 

 Algiers, description of the territory of, 1095. 

 Alkalies, vegetable, I5u0; utility of, 1501. 

 Alletx, Pons Augustin, his works on agriculture, 



page 1215. A. D. 1760. 

 Almond tree, the, at the Cape of Good Hope, 1122. 

 Aloe, the, in Spain, 723 ; of the Cape of Good 



Hope. 1123. 

 Amazonia, agriculture of, 1244. 

 Ambergris, 1949. 

 Imeithon, Hubert Pascal, his work on agriculture, 



page 1216. A D. 1779. 

 America, agricultural operations of, 1170; field 



1 ibours in, 1171. 

 America, North, temperature of the eastern parts 



of, 2352. 

 A7nio:,LeP., his work on agriculture, 1216. A.I). 



1770. 

 Ammonia in animals, 1929. 

 Ammoniac, 1474. 

 Amoretti, his works on agriculture, page 1221. 



A. D. 1785. 

 Amoretue, his works on agriculture, page 1216. A D. 



1787. 

 A?nos, William, his works on agriculture, page 



1210 A. D. 1714. 

 Amphibia, 7589. 

 Analysation of planls, mechanical and chemical 



processes for the, 1392, 1393. 

 Analysis, vegetable, products of, 1394 ; compound 



products of, 1395. 

 Andrison,James, EI- D., his works on agriculture, 



page 1209. A. D. 177">. 

 Anderson, William, his work on agriculture, page 



1213. A. 1). 1816. 

 Angler, the, injurious to young salmon, 3892. 

 Anglo-Saxons, origin of the, 200. 

 Angus, statistics of, 7850. 

 Animals affected by climate. 1249. 

 Animals, androgvnous, 1!<84 ; gemmiparous, 



hvbridous, 1986'; dead, as a manure, 2245 ; distn 



biition of, on the face of the globe, 1999; lo-u 



distribution of, 2005; domestic, the rearing al, 



2066 

 Animals, external covering of, 1844; importance 



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of, in the arts, 2013. 2019 ; as articles of food, 2015 ; 

 in medicine, 2018; influence of soil and climate 



