INDEX 



OF NAMES OF PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE FORE- 

 GOING PAGES. 



V minium, JOHN JAMES. (Page 69.) An American ornithologist , 

 born of French parents in Louisiana, May 4th, 1780 ; died in New 

 York city, January 27th, 1851. His great work, "The Birds of 

 America," began to be published in 1826, and was thirteen years 

 in reaching completion. He himself furnished the colored draw- 

 ings from which the copperplates, upward of four hundred in num- 

 ber, were engraved. Some of these plates are exhibited at the Xew 

 York Museum of Natural History in Central Park. His account of 

 the carrion-crows or black vultures, to which Mr. Darwin refers, is 

 given in Audubon's "Ornithological Biography" (vol. ii., p. 33), pub- 

 lished in 1831-49. 



Bonpland, AIME. (Page 145.) A French botanist; born 

 at La Rochelle, August 22d, 1773; died May 4th, 1858, at Santa 

 Anna, in the Argentine Province of Corrientes. He accompanied 

 Ilumboldt in his journey to South America in 1799. In 1816 he 

 went again to that country, and lived by turns in La Plata (now the 

 Argentine Confederation), Uruguay, Paraguay (at first as a prisoner 

 of war), and Brazil. He was unwilling to return to Europe. 



Burchell, WILLIAM J. (Page 73.) An English traveller. His 

 " Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa " was published in Lon- 

 don in 1822-24. 



Byron, JOHN. (Page 44.) An English naval commander; born 

 November 8th, 1723; died April 10th, 1786 : the grandfather of Lord 



