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INDEX. 



ratus, 110 ; possess sense of hearing, but auditory 

 apparatus not yet discovered, 110, and note; 

 have often three stomachs, 111 ; great digestive 

 power of, 111 ; heart of, description of, 113 ; cir- 

 culation of, 113 ; respiratory organs of, 114 ; ae- 

 rial mouth of common fly, engraving of, 115; 

 tracheae, 116; ravages of, 117 ; fecundity of, 117 ; 

 eggs of, 118 ; sexuality of, 121 ; luminous, 121 ; 

 luminosity of, Sir H. Davy and Treviranus on, 

 122, note; metamorphoses of, 12G; their change 

 of food, 126 ; wingless at birth, 128 ; apparatus 

 for flying last developed, 128 ; the young called 

 larva, or mask, 128 ; becomes a nymph, 128 ; im- 

 ago, 131 ; its birth, 131 ; intelligence of, 137 ; 

 care of offspring, 138 ; knowledge of the time 

 when various changes to be made, 138 ; Camper's 

 views, 139 ; reaches the greatest subtlety, 140 ; 

 examples of, 141, seq.; supposed to be automatic, 

 143 ; tricks, various, 143 ; maternal instinct of, 

 148 ; hunting, 155 ; Carabi and tiger-beetles, 155 ; 

 their devices to catch prey, 155; dragon-flies, 

 160 ; spiders, 160 ; slave-makers, 164 ; wonderful 

 order observed when removing, 297 ; Lepidop- 

 tera, peregrinations of larvae, 297 ; migrations of, 

 324 ; influence of, on fecundation of flowers, 463 ; 

 experimental demonstration of, engraving of, 

 465 ; instances of, 4G5 ; for want of this influence 

 some exotic plants remain barren in France, 467. 



Iron Gates of Algeria, 606. 



Ironwood, 519. 



Irritability, Vegetable, examples of, 446. 



Island-Builders, 65; their submarine operations, 

 65 ; carried on principally in South Sea and the 

 Red Sea, 66. 



Ivory, fossil, 571. 



J. 



Jasmine, steeped in precious essences, 411. 



Java, beauty and violence of its volcanoes, 622. 



Jet Ant, a wonderful carver, 192. 



John's Wort, St., superstition respecting, 742. 



Joiners, insects which cut and divide wood, 192. 



Jorullo, upheaval of, 594 ; engraving of, 595. 



Josephus, age of turpentine-tree near Hebron, 512. 



Jupiter, Messengers of, 320. 



Jupiter Serapis, temple of, columns cut by Modiola, 

 77 ; changes in level of, 77, 78, and note; engrav- 

 ing of, 75. 



Jurassic strata, 552. 



K. 



Kangaroos, attached to native soil, 300. 



Kaurisankar, the highest of mountains, 5%, note. 



Kepler's opinion about the stars, 691. 



Kernel, what composed of, 475. 



Khamsin, desert tempest in Egypt, 669. 



King Penguin (Aptenodytes Palagonica), engraving 



of, 229. 

 Knight's experiment on transpiration of plants, 



402. 



Kobolds, 660, and note. 

 Korosko, desert of, 662, note ; engraving of, 6C3. 



Labyrinthodon, 552. 



Lacreze - Fossat, experiments as to quantity of 

 respirable gas discharged by certain plants, 

 391. 



Lagetto, bark of, negresses' dress made of, 123. 



Lagomys, accumulates heaps of hay, 246. 



Lake-Dwellings, their import, 579; similarity in 

 dwellings of the Papuans, 580, note. 



Lampyris nocliluca, 121 ; engraving of, 121. 



Land-Crabs, respire water, perform singular jour- 

 neys, 333; frequent mountains, 333; means of 

 carrying water to moisten branchiae, 333. 



Language, Antennal, 107. 



Laplanders, feed on mountain-meal, 32. 



Larrey on emigration of swallows, 313. 



Larva, or mask, name given by Linnaeus to young 

 of insects, 128 ; in this state does nothing but eat 

 and grow, 128 ; becomes a nymph, 128 ; a cater- 

 pillar, engraving of, 127, 132. 



Lathrcea squamaria, remarkable growth of, 440. 



Laurus fcetens, 398, note ; L. cinnamomum, yields 

 cinnamon, 420; L. camphora, yields camphor, 

 421 ; engraving of, 423. 



Lavender, 411. 



Lavoisier on respiration of plants, 390. 



Laurence's Rain, St., 728. 



Lead-Eaters, 197 ; Sirex giganteus (Giant Sirex), 

 197. 



Leaf, The, 355. 



Leaf-Insect, ( Mormolyce phyllodes), 87. 



Leaves, the lungs of plants, 356, 386 ; not always 

 present, 356 ; composed of two parts, petiole and 

 blade, 356 ; sometimes in aquatic plants re&ernble 

 a net-work, and remind us of the branchiae of 

 fish, 356 ; sometimes form long capillary fila- 

 ments, 356 ; aerial, or pulmonary, and aquatic, 

 or branchial, leaves of the aquatic Ranunculus 

 (B. aqualili.?), engraving of, 356 ; immense, of 

 Victoria regia, 357 ; engraving of, 357 ; of taliput 

 palm, 358 ; exceptions, 387. 



Lecanora esculenta, engraving of, 522. 



Leguminosae, seeds of, used as soap, 422, note. 



Lemery, theory of volcanic action, 630. 



Lemming, extraordinary migration of, 303 ; en- 

 graving of, 303 ; great courage of, 304. 



Lenses, great power of some recently made, 8. 



Lentil, 531, note. 



Lepidium Draba, 485, note. 



Lepidodendra, 547. 



Lepidoptera, peregrinations of larva?, 297 ; wonder- 

 ful o^der observed in, 297 ; the processionary 

 Bomoyx, 298. 



Lepsius work on Egypt, 297. 



Leuwenhoeck, discovers the microscope, and his 

 treatment of Hartzoeker, 7, 8; his work out- 

 strips his instruments, 8; small power of his 

 lenses, 8. 



Lias, 552. 



Libellula, the changes it undergoes, 126; L. de- 

 pressa, life and metamorphosis of, engraving of, 

 129 ; fossil, engraving of, 584. 



Liber, layers of, where found, their character, 351 ; 



