INDEX. 



313 



Firs, 173 ; Scotch, 98; petrified, 78 

 Fish manure, 30x3 ; scales, 251 ; 



trade, 300 

 Fjords, 70 

 Flies, 204, 213 5 

 Flints, 28, 60, 148 

 Flint froth, 155 

 Floating bricks, 156 ; ice, 63 ; 



matter of air, 15 

 Floods, 50, 252 

 Flowers, Artificial, 280 

 Flue, 4 



Fog, 19; red, 13 

 Fool's gold, 30 

 Foot-bridge, 28 

 Foraminifera, 139 

 Fossils, 256 

 Frost, 24 



Fulmar petrel, 231 

 Fungi, spores, 17, 1746 



Gallinazo, 238 



Ganges river, 56 



Gases from coal, 189 ; diffusion of, 



168 



Geneva, Lake, 265 

 Giant's causeway, 31 

 Giant kelp, 158 

 Glacial Period, 71 



Glaciers, 66 ; -flea, n ; streams, 69 

 Glass, broken, 271, 287 ; dissolved, 



32; etching, 37; making, no; 



natural, no ; -rope sponge, 150 

 Gneiss, 121 

 Goats, 252 

 Gobi, desert, 108 

 Granite, 26, 34, 120, 121 ; hills, 



1 06 



Grape seeds, 305 ; skins, 305 

 Grasses, 98, 197 

 Great Dismal Swamp, 182 

 Great Salt Lake, 161 

 Greenland fjords, 70 

 Green slates, 117 

 Griffon claw, 259 

 Grip-claws, 259 

 Ground pine, 186 

 Guanaco, 252 

 Guano, 253 

 Gulf weed, 158 

 Gulls, 231 

 Guttapercha, 173 

 Glycerine, 307 



Hailstones, 19 



Hair, 299 



Hairs, Nettle, 98 



Halles Centrales, Paris, 289291 



Harmattan, 14 



Hats, Old, 278 



Hedgehogs, 245 



Hemp, 98 



Hops, 98 ; oil of, 178 



Hop-bines, 299, 307 



Hornets, 218 



Horse-chestnut, 97 



Horse-tails, 98 



Hot springs, 87 9 



Hudson river cliffs, 26 



Humboldt glacier, 73 



Humic acids, 101 



Hydrochloric acid, 295 



Ice, 25 ; anchor, 76 ; -dust, 10 ; 



floating, 63 ; ground, 64 

 Icebergs, 72 6 

 Ice-cap, 71 



India-rubber, 156, 173 

 Infusoria, 151 3 

 Iron, 24 ; galvanised, 30 ; old, 289 ; 



pyrites, 194 ; required by plants, 



170 

 Ivory, 244, 259 



Jackal, 248 

 apan, 82, 198 

 argonelle pear, 293 

 ava, eruption, 12 



et, 193 

 _,orullo, 87 

 Jura, 141, 194 

 Jute, 302 



Kamptulikon, 286 

 Kaolin, 120 

 Kauri pine, 193 

 Kelp, 159 ; giant, 158 

 Kettles, Fur in, 36 ; old, 289 

 King of vultures, 236 

 Kite, 241 2 

 Kitthvake, 231 

 Krakatoa, 12, 84 

 Kryokonit, 10 



Lake-dwellers, 263 ; of lava, 86 

 Lammergeier, 233 

 Landes, 106 



