INDEX. 



759 



mids, 38 ; on sugar-cane, 412 ; on size of trees, 

 515, note. 



Strata, secondary, fauna of, 551 ; Jurassic, 552. 



Strelitzia, remains barren in France, 461. 



Strix cunicularia, engraving of nest of, 287 ; its 

 subterranean habits, 288. 



Stromboli, 616. 



Suberous layer, in many trees unseen on account of 

 its thinness, 350 ; in other trees forms cork, 350. 



Sugar-Cane (Saccharum officinarum), 412 ; Strabo 

 on, 412 ; Dioscorides on, 412. 



Sugar-Maple, produces great quantity of sap, 382, 

 and note ; engraving of, 379. 



Sun, rising and setting in the Nubian desert, 672, 

 673 ; great size of, 698, note, 708 ; its weight, 708 ; 

 spots on, 708 ; engraving of, 709 ; nature of spots 

 imperfectly known, 710, and note ; heat of, 710. 



Superstitions, various, respecting monsters, 733, seq. 



Swallow, Esculent, or Salangane, form of nest, 

 where built and what composed of, 282, 285 ; en- 

 graving of nest of, 282 ; mode of gathering the 

 nests, 285 ; used as food, 285 ; their value, 285, 

 note ; ease of flight, 305 ; mysterious emigration, 

 309 ; suppositions as to disappearance of, 310 ; 

 Olaus Magnus on, 310 ; Cuvier on, 310, note ; 

 suppositions as to emigration, 310 ; betake them- 

 selves in winter to Senegal, 313 ; ariel swallow, 

 engraving of, 311 ; incident of flight in, to Sene- 

 gal, 314; great attachment to their nests, 314; 

 Spallanzani's experiment, 314. 



Swan, its power of wing, 236. 



Swift-Moth of New Zealand, engraving of, 681. 



Swimming Fucus, 57 ; engraving of, 58. 



Sylvia sutoria, nest of, engraving of, 253. 



Syringa vulgaris, 531, note. 



T. 



Tacitus on age of oaks, 511. 



Tactile communication by antennae, 107 ; called by 

 Huber antennal language, 107. 



Tailor-Bird, nest of, 253 ; engraving of, 253. 



Talegalla Lathami, its size, great nest, and mode 

 of incubation, 245. 



Taliput Palm, leaves of, 358. 



Talpa Europcea, common mole, a protector of agri- 

 culture, 220, 221, note ; engraving of, 220 ; its vo- 

 raciousness, 220, 222, note ; catches birds, 221 ; 

 never gnaws roots, 222 ; its fur, 222, note. 



Tapioca, abounds in midst of poison, 409, and note ; 

 engraving of, 410. 



Tardigrades, why so named, 43 ; experiment with, 

 43 ; their resistance to great heat, 43 ; engraving 

 of, 44; their incombustibility denied, 45; M. 

 Tinel's experiments upon, 48, and note. 



Taurus, Mount, cascade in, engraving of, 607. 



Telescope, Galileo's, 695 ; Lord Reese's, engraving 

 of, 696 ; Euler and Hooke's opinions as to need- 

 ful size of, 695, note ; Sir W. Herschel's, 695, note, 

 696 ; Struve's, 696 ; power of, 694, 696. 



Teredo (T. navalis), 78 ; its nature and destructive 

 habits, 78 ; engraving of, 79. 



Termites (T. bellicosi), or white ants, 175 ; the vari- 



ous ranks of, 175 ; the females, monstrous egg- 

 sacks, 175 ; spout out eggs like a fountain, 175 ; 

 engraving of, 176 ; their nests, 176 ; engraving of 

 nests, 177 ; other termites invade our dwellings, 

 179 ; destroy timber-work, etc., 179 ; tree-termite 

 (Termes arborum), builds on trees, 180 ; engrav- 

 ing of nest of, 181 ; depredations of white ants, 

 329 ; their order of march and use signals, 329. 



Terrestrial Crust, how formed, 537. 



Tertiary Epoch, 563 ; fauna, richness of, 563 ; Palseo- 

 theria, Anoplotheria, 564 ; imaginary view during, 

 engraving of, 565 ; fossil shells of, engraving of, 

 568 ; vegetation during, 569 ; post- period, 570 ; 

 animal forms in, 570 ; deluges during, 574. 



Thompson's weed, how introduced, 485, note. 



Thor, the god of tempests, 5. 



Thrush, Common, forms a beautiful nest, 286. 



Thunder-Bushes caused by flies, 100. 



Tierra del Fuego, engraving of view in, 597. 



Tinea sarcitella, clothes-moth, 199 ; larvae of, en- 

 graving of, 198 ; in butterfly state, engraving of, 

 199. 



Tin-Schu, gigantic mouse, 571. 



Titmouse, long-tailed, nest of, 246 ; penduline, nest 

 of, engraving of, 247 ; Cape, nest of, engraving 

 of, 248 ; nest of, shaped like a bottle, 251. 



Toad, monster, 552. 



Torre del Greco, destruction of, 626. 



Tortrix turionana, or pine-twister, manner of gnaw- 

 ing plant, 215 ; (T. Strobiliana), cone pyralis, en- 

 graving of, 217 ; gnaws cones, 218. 



Towns, architects and devourers of, 174. 



Tracheae of insects, 116. 



Transition Period, 543 ; earth imperfectly cooled 

 down during, 543 ; neither seasons nor climate 

 during, 543. 



Transpiration of plants, 392 ; forms dew, 392 ; 

 Muschenbroeck on, 392 ; engraving of, 393 ; Ma- 

 riotte on, 393 ; experiment by Guettard on, 393 ; 

 Hales' experiment on, 396 ; transpiration in the 

 sun-flower, engraving of, 395 ; experiment by 

 Ruysch on the Arum, 396 ; discovery of Musset, 

 397 ; weeping-tree (Ccesalpinia pluviosa), vege- 

 table marvel of transpiration, 398 ; engraving of 

 weeping-tree, 399 ; simple experiment to demon- 

 strate insensible transpiration, 398 ; Knight's 

 experiment, 402. 



Trees, growth of, 404 ; how to determine age, 404 ; 

 Adanson on, 405 ; growth of bark very rapid, 405 ; 

 example showing rapidity of growth of trees, 406 ; 

 experiment of Cavanilles to see growth, 406 ; 

 bamboo, rapid growth, 407 ; plane, enormous 

 size of, 495 ; lime, enormous size of, 495 ; engrav- 

 ing of, 509 ; Oak of Allouville, great size of, 495 ; 

 engraving of, 497 ; baobab, great size, 496 ; en- 

 graving of, 513 ; chestnut-tree, marvel of vege- 

 table kingdom, 499 ; engraving of, 501 ; cedars 

 of Lebanon, 500 ; wax-palm, great height, 503 ; 

 Wellingtonia gigantea, 503 ; engraving of, 505; 

 Eucalypti, 504 ; longevity of trees, 507 ; nut-tree 

 near Balaklava, 511, note; turpentine-tree, 512 ; 

 Adanson on age of, 512 ; cypress, 515 ; Strabo 

 on size of, 515, note; De Candolle on age of, 

 515 ; dragon's-blood tree, 517 ; engraving of 516. 



