Contents. 

 I. TIMES AND SEASONS. 



Winter in the Polar Regions— Aurora— Snowstorm 

 — Snow on Trees — Beauty of Snow-drifts— Silver- 

 Thaw — Opening of Spring- — Butterflies — Beetles 

 — Fishes — Bees — Flowers — Spring in Canada — 

 Leafing of Forest — Summer — Autumn — Autum- 

 nal Colours in American Forests — Indian Sum- 

 mer — Autumn in the Alps — Morning in New- 

 foundland — Beaver-pond — Water-insects — Morn- 

 ing in Jamaica — Awakening Birds — Daybreak 

 in Venezuela— Sunrise in the Oural— Winter-Noon 

 in England — Noon in a Brazilian Forest — Sunset 

 in the Oural— Sunset in the Altaian— Mothing in 

 a Summer Evening in England — Night on the 

 Niesen— Night on the Jamaican Mountains- 

 Night in Tropical Forests— Night-sounds in Ja- 

 maica—in Brazil— on the Amazon— in Tobago 

 —in Bur mah — Beast- voices in Guiana — Night 

 on the Amazon — Night in Central Africa — 

 Night-lamps — English Glow-worms — Fire-flies in 

 Canada — in Alabama — in Jamaica — Luminous 

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II. HARMONIES. 



Distribution of Animals and Plants — Harmony of 

 a Natural-history Picture — Gazelle in Deserts- 

 Hyena in a ruined City — Siberian Stag in 

 Altaian Gorge — Lammergeyer in the Alatou — 

 Sperm-whales in Beagle Channel— Guanaco on 

 the Andes— Reindeer on a Snow Fjeld— Burrell at 

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