CONTENTS. vii 



SECTION 1. Characteristic Vegetation, - - 155 



Successive Zones of Vegetation characteristic of Latitude 

 and of Elevation above the Level of the Sea (p. 156) ; 

 The Icy Eegion (p. 158) ; the Region of Moss (p. 

 158) ; the Region of Barley and Northern Agricul- 

 ture (p. 159) ; Marine Vegetation within the Arctic 

 Circle (p. 160) ; Vegetation on the Snow (p. 163) ; 

 Terrestrial Vegetation of the Far North (p. 164) ; 

 and of the Forest Zone (p. 174). 



SECTION II. Forests, - 176 



Forest Trees and Forest Products of the Government of 

 Archangel (p. 176) ; and of Olonetz and Vologda 

 (p. 187) ; Details of the Appearance and Contents of 

 the Forest Estate of Vuig (p. 179). 



SECTION III. Classified List of Plants found in 

 the vicinity of Lake Onega by Forst-Meister 

 A. Guenther, - 182 



SECTION IV. Vegetation in Lapland, - 191 



SECTION V. Palaeontological Botany, - 193 



Views advanced by Dr Oswald Heer, and expounded and 

 illustrated by Count Saporta, relative to Vegetation 

 having originated in the Far North, and diffused 

 itself Southwards. 



CHAPTER III. Fauna, - - 236 



SECTION 1. Quadrupeds, - 236 



SECTION II. Birds, - . 242 



SECTION III. Insects, - - 245 



Notice of Insects injurious to Forest Trees in Northern 

 Russia by Forst-Meister Guenther (p. 245). 



SUB-SECTION A. List of Coleoptera collected by Mr 

 Guenther in the Government of Olonetz, arranged 

 according to Catalogus Coleopterorum Eurvpae et 

 Caucasi Auctoribus, L. V. Heyden, E. Reitler, et J. 

 Weise (p. 248). 



