422 



INDEX OF NATURAL OBJECTS, ETC. 



Staubbach -waterfall, 117 



Stem in vegetables, and trees, variable 



character of, 3 

 Stickleback, the, 323 

 Stinging-nettle, 229 

 Storks, 107, 295 



Storks, the, and their parents, 285 

 Storks, tribunal of the, 358 

 Strasburg goose, 132 

 Strata, singular juxtaposition of, 325 

 Subterranean fauna, 255 

 Subterranean rivers, 105 

 Sugar cane, 92 

 Sugar-producing plants, 92 

 Sun, the, 146 

 Sunbeam, 338 



Swallow, the, a psychological riddle, 61 

 Swallow, the, 113, 177 

 Swallows, migrations of, 151 

 Swans, confidence of the, 60 

 Sysymbrium irio, 233 



TANGHIN, poisonous seed of the, 348 



Tawny vulture, 204 



Tea, 259 



Teak, the, or Indian oak, 274 



Teredo, the, 332 



Termite ant, fecundity of, 384 



Termites, 150 



Thallogens, the, 323 



Three-toed sloth , the, 213 



Tidal currents, 180 



Tiger, audacity of, 22 



Tiger-beetles, 183 



Toad, the, eats its old skin, 98 



Torpedo, the, 183 



Tortoise can live without brain, 97 



Tree, outline of any, is represented by 



its leaf, 9 



Tree-serpents and birds, 348 

 Tree, the life of the, 198 

 Trees, the enemies of, 101 

 Tripoli sand, 172, 289 

 Tropical insect life, 306 

 Tropical rivulet, 138 

 Tropics, the, 47 

 Tsetse fly, the, 102 

 Turkey buzzard, the, 261 

 Turkey-cock, swagger of the, 33 

 Turnstone, the, 286 

 Turtle, 173 

 Turtle-catching, 381 

 Turtle, eggs of, 135 



VALLEY OF POISON, the, 316 

 Vapour dissolving silica, 104 



Vegetable world, silent forces of, 125 

 Vegetable world, the, in relation to the 



animal, 375 

 Vegetables in relation to the cycle of 



life, 107 



Vegetation, source of, 323 

 Vibrio, the, 112 

 Vinegar Kiver, the, 106 

 Violet, the, unimprovable by culture, 



34i 



Viperine serpents, the, 353 

 Vitiated air, 149 

 Volcanic exhalations, 181 

 Volcanoes, 305 , 

 Volucellse, the, 74 

 Vulture, the sociable, 37 



NASSOUB, 146 

 Walruses, the, 178 

 Wasp, the, as a destroyer of its off- 



spring, 71 



Wasps an excellent body, 366 

 Wasps' nest, 174 

 Wasps', the, reason for killing their 



offspring, 333 



Watch, the mechanism of a, 400 

 Water, attribute and constituents of, 



255 



Water-lilies, 203 , 



Water-power of Nature, the, 318 

 Water-snake, the, 112 

 Water-spider, 311 

 Weasel, the, 288 



Whale, the, and its enemies, 102, 205 

 Wheat found in Egyptian tombs, 196 

 White cabbage butterfly, 180 

 White ants, 165 

 White-headed eagle, the, 280 

 White-headed eagle fishing by proxy, 



377 



White-snake, 165 

 White water-worm, 282 

 Wild fowl, 158 

 Wild horse, the, 89 

 Wild horses in the Ukraine, 191 

 Wind drift, the, 130 

 Wind, effects of, 56, 57 

 Wolves, the, 284 

 Woodpecker, the, 403 

 Wych-elm, 340 



YELLOW gum tree of Western Australia, 

 230 



ZIMB, the, of Abyssinia, 31 



