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INDEX 



135; 252, 253; report upon the 

 geology of, 343. 



Mount-Deserters, 252. 



Mount Tom, 185. 



Mount Washington, a tramp over, 

 192, 329. 



Mountain structure, study of, 116, 

 190, 228, 229; in Italy, 307, 312- 

 313. 



Miiller, Max, 262. 



Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, let- 

 ter to, 249-250. 



Murchison's "Silurian System," 55. 



Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 nucleus of, 97, 98, 100; 101, 102, 

 103, 114, 118, 139, 171, 181, 182, 

 186, 225, 247, 248, 250, 251, 258, 

 271, 297, 298, 344, 361; Reports 

 of the Curator of the, 427 ; 437. 



Mystic River, 202, 204. 



N., Sefior, 240, 240-241. 



N , 298. 



Nahant, 97; Agassiz's summer home 

 at, 201, 227; 249. 



Nan tucket, 258; report upon the 

 geology of, 343 ; proposed summer 

 school in, 426. 



Naples, 237, 268; notes on, and the 

 Neapolitans, 319-321; second visit 

 to, 405, 407. 



Napoleon III, 237. 



Narragansett Basin, 110. 



Narragansett Bay, 110. 



"Narrative and Critical History of 

 America," 427. 



Nashua, N. H., 398. 



Nashua River, 10. 



National Academy of Science, 397. 



National Survey, a, 249. 



Natural history, Shaler's early inter- 

 est in, 92 ; 93, 98 ; plans for instruc- 

 tion of, 298. 



"Natural History of Politics," 430. 



Nature, Shaler's love of, 350, 354, 

 358. 



Nature, 289. 



"Nature and Man in America," 427. 



Nautical Almanac office, 208. 



Neapolitans, the, 321. 



"Negro Problem, The," 430. 



Negro-traders, 31, 36, 38. 



Negroes, of Sea Islands, 251. See 

 Slaves and slavery. 



"Neighbor, The," 217, 427, 435. 



Nemi, 406. 



New Brunswick, 143, 161. 



New-Brunswickers, 159. 



New England, 85, 92, 125, 138, 143, 

 144, 145, 151, 159, 194, 200, 201, 

 224, 262, 282, 348, 362, 368, 378. 



New England climate, 348. 



New England coast, 205 ; geology of, 

 283. 



New England fishing ships, 144, 145. 



New England sailors, 159. 



New England wilds, 138. 



New-Englander, 125, 170, 201-202. 



New Madrid earthquakes of 1811, 

 phenomena connected with, re- 

 corded by William Shaler, 6. 



New Orleans, 32. 



New York, 32, 83, 283, 291, 294, 407, 

 431. 



Newberry, John S., 227. 



Newport, Ky., 3, 12; characteristics 

 of, before the war, 31-32; 39, 54, 

 66, 85, 217, 279, 291, 325, 397. 



Newport barracks, 14, 27, 28, 39, 55, 

 57, 59, 174. 



Niagara Falls, 257. 



Nightingale, the, 406-407. 



Nile, the, 403. 



North, the, 82, 84, 88, 170, 172, 195, 

 201, 216, 219. 



North Adams, Mass., 283. 



North Bend, O., 281. 



North Carolina, 34, 41, 172, 289, 

 295. 



Northern States. See North, the. 



Northerners, 196. 



Northumberland Channel, 163. 



Norton, Charles Eliot, 265 ; letter of, 

 on "From Old Fields," 444. 



Norwood, C. J., 277 n. 



Sote-books, Shaler's, quoted, 215; 



