CONTENTS. 



Zamang del Guayre — Elm in Wales — Limes in 

 Lithuania — Oak in France — Locust-trees in Bra- 

 zil—Gum-trees in Australia— Mammoth tree of 

 California— A tall Family— Felling the "Big 

 Tree"— Speculation, . 113 



VI. THE MINUTE. 



Wonder at Minuteness— Complexity— Melicerta — 

 Its Building Powers— Mental Faculties— The In- 

 visible World — Diatoms — Their Form and Struc- 

 ture — Mode of Increase — Mode of Aggregation — 

 Various Points of Interest — Life in a Drop of 

 W'ater — Infusorin — Stentor — Animalcule- tree — 

 Floscularia — Rotiforn — Notommata — Salpina— 

 Laying and Hatching of an Egg— Sculptured 

 Shells— Anuraea— Maximus in Minimis, . 144 



VII. THE MEMORABLE. 



Chuck- will s Widow— A Night Scene — Heliconia— 

 Singular Habit of a Butterfly— Swarming of 

 Urania — A Jamaican Forest — Tree-ferns — A Bra- 

 zilian Forest — Glories of Tropical Scenery — 

 Strange Scene in a Churchyard — The Bird of 

 Paradise at Home — Washington's Eagle— A 

 Night with Fern-owls — The King of the Butter- 

 flies captured — First Sight of the Royal Water- 

 lily — Scene in the Life of Mungo Park — Scientific 

 Enthusiasm— Humboldt's Experience, . 166 



VIII. THE RECLUSE. 



Strange Tameness of Animals — Vigilance and Jeal- 

 ousy — Caution and Confidence combined — Shy- 

 ness and Coyness— Eagles— Ducks — Stanzas to a 

 Water-fowl — Ostrich — Rhea — Scottish Urus — 

 European Bison— Mode in which it is hunted— 

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