INDEX 



Page. 



Fruit 33 



trees, dwarfing - -- 87 



Funchal, Madeira, town of - 4 



Garden, cinnamon, island of Ceylon 11 



General order, No. 1 407 



2. - 407 



Geological features, Lew Chew - 41 



exploration 53,54, 55,56 



Government, Lew Chew 48 



Grapes 86 



Grape cultivated, variety of 5 



Grain, production of 6 



Grading, culture, &c 26 



Grasses 33 



Granaries -- 34 



Gray, Prof. Asa, description of plants 303 



Green, Surgeon Daniel S., agricultural notices and 



observations . - 3 



agriculture of Lew Chew 23 



Japan 81 



China ... 101 

 medical topography of 



Japan 91 



Harvest time in Japan 83 



Hakodadi, port of 92 



climate of 91 



mineral spring near 97 



Harbor of Endermo, island of Yesso 119 



Napha, Lew Chew 15 



Port Lloyd, Peel Island -- 128 



Simoda 91 



Horses at Hakodadi - -- 87 



Hakodadi, medical topography of 91 



Indian corn 85 



Irrigation 19 



Instructions to Captain Abbot 127, 123 



and reports in relation to Manila and 



Formosa 132 



Implements, agricultural — - - 26 



Introductory note to papers on natural history — 213 



Index to the ichthyology 287 



Jay, John C. , paper on Japan shells 291 



Japanese fish, notes on some figures of 255 



agriculture 81 



and Lew Chewans, ethnography of 46 



paper 86 



tea plant . 87 



horses 87 



coal - 167 



Japan shells, list of - 296 



Jones, Rev. George, reports to Commodore Perry.. 153,156 



geological exploration 53 



exploration of Lew Chew 59 



description of mineral spring 



at Hakodadi ., 97 



Journal of the second visit of Commodore Perry to 



Japan 395 



Ke-lung, Formosa, town of 156 



coal mines near 153 



Page. 

 Kelly, Com. John, report of Lieut. Balch respect- 

 ing Bonin islands, to 132 



in relation to the loss of Lieut. 



Matthews and boat's crew 408 



Kuro-Siwo, or Gulf stream of the North Pacific 



ocean .'. 363 



meteorological reports and tables 363 



diagrams constructed from the obser- 

 vations 363 



explanation of diagrams 363 



the existence of a northeast current 

 noticed by Cook, Kruzenstern, and 



others 364 



extent of the equatorial current of the 



Pacific 364 



average strength of the Kuro-Siwo 

 from south end of Formosa to Straits 



of SaDgar 365 



thermal change in the water on leav- 

 ing the stream 365 



efforts of United States ship Preble to 



beat through Formosa channel 366 



striking resemblance between the Gulf 

 stream of the Atlantic and the Kuro- 

 Siwo 366 



temperature of the Kuro-Siwo 367 



floating sea-weed 367 



influence of the Kuro-Siwo upon the 

 climate of Japan and the west coast 



of North America 369 



winters in Puget's Sound 369 



winds and rains in Oregon Territory.. 369 



Land in Lew Chew, preparation of 102 



Lew Chew, island of 15, 187 



agriculture 15, 24 



climate 25 



medical topography of-. 23 



Lew Chewans and Japanese 46 



comparison of language 47 



women 48 



commerce . 49 



arts and manufactures 49 



exploration of 53,59 



Letters of Com. Perry to second king of Siam 191, 192 



second king of Siam to Com. Perry 192, 193 



Com. Perry in reference to Siam 194 



to Mr. McLane 195 



to Secretaiy of the Navy .. 196 



to Secretary of State 300 



Dr. Joseph Wilson, TJ. S. N., to Dr. L. 

 J. Williams, U. S. N., describing the 

 manner of hatching ducks in China.. 251 

 Capt. H. A. Adams, communicating par- 

 ticulars of the ratification of the trea- 

 ty of Kanagawa - 201 



Dr. James Morrow, agriculturist 299 



Professor Asa Gray to Com. Perry 300 



Com. Perry to Charles D. Mugford 139 



Listof officers 410 



Literature of Lew Chew 49 



