CONTENTS. Vn 



etation — Cold Water — Lake Simcoe — Holland landing — St. Albans — 

 Country on the Toronto road — Toronto — Lockport — Ileraarkable drift 

 groove — Home 123-133 



II. NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE NORTHERN VEGETATION COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE JURA AND THE ALPS. 



Geographical distribution ; animals and plants not scattered at ran- 

 dom over the face of the earth ; causes of this; temperature, 137. — 

 Moisture; light; atmospheric pressure, 138. — Evinced in the fragrance 

 of Alpine flovv^ers, 139. — Electricity; geographical features, 140, 141. — 

 But physical agents not originally causative ; peculiarities of North 

 America; latitude, 142. — Limits of these agencies, 144. — EA'idenccs of 

 a Supreme Intelligence, 145. — CoRparison of vegetation of temperate 

 regions, 146, 147. — Of Alpine and Northern vegetation, 148-9. — Of 

 recent and fossU species ; coincidence of EurojDean tertiary fossils with 

 living species in America, 150-2 .'. 137-152 



II. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE VEGETATION OF THE NORTHERN SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR. 



Agreement of vegetation of Lake Superior with that of the higher 

 tracts of the Jura, 153. — Parallel lists of the plants of these regions, 

 154-170. — Enumeration of lichens collected at Lake Superior, 170-4. — 

 Parallel lists of Lake Superior plants in general and their analogues in 

 Europe, 175-9. — Comparison of the vegetation of North America in 

 general with that of Switzerland, 179-188. — List of European plants 

 observed along several lines of railroad, 188-90 153-190 



III. 



CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS FROM EMBRYONIC AND PALiEOZOIC DATA. 



Internal structure an insufficient basis for classification, 191-2. — 

 Embryonic features of various animals, as denoting a respectively inferior 

 rank, 193-200 191-200 



IV. 



GENERAL REMARKS UPON THE COLEOPTERA OF LAKE SUPERIOR. 

 BY DR. JOHN I. LECOXTE. 



Geographical distribution, 201-2. — List of species collected, 203-239. — 

 Observations on the characters of the insect fauna of Lake Superior, 

 239-241. — Account of the larva and pupa of a coleopterous insect from 

 Niagara Falls, referred by Dekay to the Crustaceans, 241-2 201-242 



