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INDEX 



Arkansas River, 297. 



"Armada Days," 439, 440. 



Arno, the river, 302, 303, 309. 



Arnold, Major, at Fort Independence, 

 174. 



Arthur's Seat, 265. 



Artistic abominations, 307. 



Arts and Sciences, faculty of, 369. 



Ashland, Ky., 220. 



"Aspects of the Earth," 427. 



Astronomy, Shaler's boyhood inter- 

 est in, 55, 56. 



Athens, 404 ; study of the Parthenon 

 and an engineering feat for Har- 

 vard men conceived, 404 ; 405. 



Atkinson, Edward, 432 n. 



Atlantic Monthly, articles by N. S. 

 Shaler in, cited, 219, 254, 289, 430. 



Atlantic Ocean, 297, 334. 



"Aunt C ," Shaler's maternal 



great-aunt, description of, 20-21. 



Autobiography, 3-212, 218, 228; be- 

 gun in Egypt, 403. 



Auvergne, 237. 



Azores, 355. 



B., Captain, of Salins, 233. 



B s, the, 285. 



Baiae, Italy, 319. 



Bailey, anti-slavery editor in Ken- 

 tucky, 85. 



Bangor, Me., 252. 



Bar Harbor, 134. 



Barbecues, 41. 



Barlow, telescope-maker, 56. 



Bay of Fundy, 141. 



Beacon Hill, Boston, 193. 



Beacon Park track, 94. 



Beacon Street, Boston, 193, 198. 



Bears, black, on the island of Anti- 

 costi, 153-154. 



Beaumont's, Elie de, "Systeme des 

 Montagnes," 190-191, 192, 228. 



Beckham, C. W., 277 n. 



Bee Spring, Camp at, 281. 



Belmont market gardens, a story of 

 Huxley, 346. 



Bentley, Richard, 258. 



Benton Farm, the, 224. 



Berkenridge New Ferry, 4. 



Berry, Albert S., 300. 



Big Bone Lick, 247. 



Big Sandy River, 281. 



Billings, Elkanah, 139. 



Bird Rock, 145-146; an adventure 

 upon, 146-147; 148. 



Birds, early interest of Shaler in, 49 ; 

 mating pigeons, 50 ; training game- 

 cocks, 50-51. 



Biscayne, Fla., 330. 



Blue Hills, the, 368. 



Blumhardt, Father, 243, 246. 



Board of Overseers of Harvard Col- 

 lege, 388. 



Boll, Wiirttemberg, 244 ; a faith-cure 

 hotel at, 245. 



Bond, William Cranch, 104. 



Boone, Daniel, 33. 



Booth, Edwin, 182. 



Border states, 86. 



Boston, 68, 69, 103, 104, 109, 114, 

 115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 136, 139, 

 160, 163, 183, 184, 185, 186, 193, 

 194, 197, 200; walks in the country 

 about, 201-202, 204,205, 248; 255, 

 283; "Boston somewhere near 

 Cambridge," 290; 324, 348; field 

 days in neighborhood of, 368 ; 377, 

 384, 390, 417. 



Boston Basin, The, 115. 



Boston Bay, 368. 



Boston celebrities, 193-199. 



Boston Common, 198. 



Boston Daily Advertiser, quoted, 368. 



Boston Society of Natural History, 

 104, 105, 110, 116, 182, 419; Pro- 

 ceedings of the, 427. 



Boston Theatre, 183. 



Bostonians, 290. 



Bounty-catchers, 135. 



Bow Street, Cambridge, 254, 296, 347. 



Bow Street, No. 13, 254, 296, 344. 



Boxing, Shaler's bouts with his tutor 



at Harvard, 91. 



Brachiopods, 100, 180; the Anticosti, 

 425 ; fossil, of the Ohio Valley, 426. 



