CONTENTS OF THE NOTES. 



CANTO I. 



Line. 



36 Origin of European Nations. 



76 Early use of Painting and Hiero- 

 glyphics. 



83 Proteus represents Time. 

 126 Cave of Trophonius. 

 137 Eleusinian Mysteries. 

 176 Antiquity of Statuary, casting Fi- 

 gures, and Carving. 

 224 Infancy of the present World. 

 235 Of Heat. 

 239 Of Attraction. 

 245 Of Contraction. 

 259 Arteries not conical. 



Line. 



262 Venous Absorption. 

 268 Decrease of the Ocean. 

 270 Sensation and Volition. 

 283 Mucor, Vibrio. 

 295 Animals are first aquatic. 

 315 Sea, originally was not Salt. 

 327 Animals from the Sea. 

 335 Aquatic Plants. 



343 Fro S s - 



363 Rainbow in Northern Latitudes. 



372 Venus rising from the Sea. 



392 The Fetus in the Womb. 



417 Animals from the Mud of theNile. 



CANTO II. 



i Shortness of Life. 



3 Old Age surprising. 

 39 Organic and chemical Properties. 

 43 Immortality of Matter. 

 47 Adonis emblem of Life. 

 71 The Truffle, Lycoperdoh. 

 83 Volvox. 

 85 Polypus. 

 8/ Tsenia. 



89 Oysters. 



90 Coral-Insect. 



114 Female Sex produced. 

 1 1 8 Power of Imagination. 

 122 Mankind were formerly Herma- 

 phrodites and Quadrupeds. 



1 67 Hereditary Diseases of Vegetables. 



223 Psyche and Cupid. 



268 Some Honey poisonous. 



271 Appetency and Propensity. 



280 Vallisneria. 



288 Lampyris. 



302 Insects from Anthers and Stigmas. 



331 Horns of Stags, and Tusks of 



Boars, Spurs of Cocks. 

 351 Chick in the Egg. 

 356 Songs of Birds. 

 373 How Fish swim. 

 375 How Birds fly. 

 434 Of Smiles, and of Laughter. 



