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INDEX 



Glossaries of botanical terms, 346. 

 Goat-moth, Lyonet on, 291 ; Boesel, 



297. 

 Gossamer, Lister on, 132. 

 Govi on discovery of microscope, 



136. 

 Graaf, 175. 



Greece (ancient), natural history in, 1. 

 Greene, E. L., quoted, 20 n., 25 n., 



28 n. 

 Greenhouses, 98 n. 

 Grew, 125, 166. 

 — and Millington on sexes of plants, 



338. 

 Gu^nau de Montb^liard, 366. 



Hales, Stephen, 335. 



Harvey, 104, 106 ; on development of 



chick, 159 ; on insect-transforma- 

 tion, 181. 

 Henshaw, his supposed discovery of 



spiral vessels, 149 n. 

 Herberstein, 58. 

 Hermann, 122. 



Herodotus, 2, 51 ; on date-palm, 337. 

 Hill on bees, 87. 

 Historical table of parts of flower, 



349. 

 Hive-bee, see Bee. 

 Honey-dew, 91. 

 Hooke, 135, 201 ; on Foraminifera, 



216. 

 How, 126. 

 Huber, 274. 



Humble-bee, Swammerdam on, 193. 

 Humboldt, 75, 390. 

 Humming-birds, 63, 69. 

 Hydra, Leeuwenhoek on, 216, 280 ; 



Trembley, 279 ; Baer, 283 ; Roesel, 



300. 

 Hydrophilus, Frisch on, 243. 



Ichneumons, 117, 132 ; Frisoh on, 244. 



India-rubber, 63. 



Infusoria, Leeuwenhoek and others 

 on, 302 : Ledermuller, 303. 



Insects, figured by Albin, 253, Goe- 

 dart, 253, Frisch, 253, Madame 

 Marian, 253, Boesel, 294 ; trans- 

 formations of, 181 ; orders of, 183, 

 278 ; generation of, 226 ; name of, 

 241 ; Reaumur on, 252 ; animals 

 formerly included in, 253; polli- 

 nation by, 340. 



Jardin des Plantes, 361, 



Jonston, 6u., 50, 104. 



Jung, 115, 123. 



Jussieu, A. L. de, 351, 352, 353, 



356. 

 — , B. de, 351, 352, 356. 



King, Edmund, 238. 



Kites in England, Turner on, 78, 



Willughby, 111. 

 Knight, T. A., 335. 

 Kcenig on honeycomb, 235. 



Ledermuller, 303. 



Leeuwenhoek, 200, 269, 280. 



Leguminous plants, tubercles on roots 

 of, 158. 



Linnaeus, 30, 35, 37, 39 u., 46, 123, 

 124, 272, 310 ; on sexes of plants, 

 346 ; L. and the Jusaleus, 352 ; L. 

 and BuflFon, 370-3. 



— , Elizabeth Christina, 318. 



Lister, Martin, 130, on ichneumons, 

 118 ; Malpighi on, 147 ; on MoufFet, 

 85 ; on geological maps, 133. 



L'Obel, 19, 32, 37, 39, 45, 122. 



Lonioer, 50. 



Lyonet, 283, 288, 291. 



Magellan, 71. 



Malpighi, 104, 120, 121, 125, 148; 

 M. and Swammerdam, 160; on 

 function of stamens, 338. 



Manatee, 62, 69. 



Maraldi, 272, 273, 274; on honey- 

 comb, 235. 



Marco Polo, 53. 



Marsigli, 276. 



Massari, 146. 



Mayerne, 85-6. 



Mead, made from honey, 92. 



Medicine in Middle Ages, 9, 12. 



Marian, Madame, 253. 



Mery, 289, on respiratory movements 

 of bird, 232 ; on woodpecker's 

 tongue, 232 ; on skin and tongue of 

 frog, 234 ; on Anodon, 235. 



Mioropyle, 167. 



Microscope, discovery of, 136 ; of 

 Leeuwenhoek, 202. 



Microscopic measurement, 203. 



Miller, Philip, on pollination by in- 

 sects, 340, 345. 



Millington and Grew on function of 

 pollen, 171, 338. 



Milton on bees, 89 n. 



Minute anatomists, 135. 



Monkey-chain, Acosta and others on, 

 68. 



Monocotyledons and Dicotyledons, 

 L'Obel on, 34 ; Malpighi, 121 ; 

 Ray, 121, 122, 129. 



Morland on fertilisation of flowering 

 plant, 341. 



Moths, Reaumur on, 257. 



Moufifet, 84, 88 n. 



Munro, Alexander primus. Essay on 

 Comparative Anatomy by, 238. 



