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SECTION 1. Characteristic Vegetation, - - 155 



Successive Zones of Vegetation characteristic of Latitude 

 and of Elevation above the Level of the Sea (p. 156) ; 

 The Icy Eegion (p. 158) ; the Region of Moss (p. 

 158) ; the Region of Barley and Northern Agricul- 

 ture (p. 159) ; Marine Vegetation within the Arctic 

 Circle (p. 160) ; Vegetation on the Snow (p. 163) ; 

 Terrestrial Vegetation of the Far North (p. 164) ; 

 and of the Forest Zone (p. 174). 



SECTION II. Forests, - 176 



Forest Trees and Forest Products of the Government of 

 Archangel (p. 176) ; and of Olonetz and Vologda 

 (p. 187) ; Details of the Appearance and Contents of 

 the Forest Estate of Vuig (p. 179). 



SECTION III. Classified List of Plants found in 

 the vicinity of Lake Onega by Forst-Meister 



A. Guenther, - - 182 





 SECTION IV. Vegetation in Lapland, - - 191 



SECTION V. Palaeontological Botany, - - 193 



Views advanced by Dr Oswald Heer, and expounded and 

 illustrated by Count Saporta, relative to Vegetation 

 having originated in the Far North, and diffused 

 itself Southwards. 



CHAPTER III. Fauna, - - 236 



SECTION I. Quadrupeds, - 236 



SECTION II. Birds, - - 242 



SECTION III. Insects, - - 245 



Notice of Insects injurious to Forest Trees in Northern 

 Russia by Forst-Meister Guenther (p. 245). 



SUB-SECTION A. List of Coleoptera collected by Mr 



Guenther in the Government of Olonetz, arranged 



according to Catalogue Coleopterorum JSuropae et 



.- Caucasi Auctoribus, L. V. Heyden, E. Reitler, et J. 



Weise (p. 248). 



