LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS. 



COLOUEED PLATES. 



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HuMMiNG-BiRDS AMONG TROPICAL Flowers, . , . (ffontisjjiece) 



METAiiORrHOSES OF THE Peacock Bl'TTerfly — Vaiiessa io, . . . 137 



Orchidaceous Elowers, 500 



The Great Water-lilt — I7cto)'ia re^wt, frequented by Hummiug-bii'ds, 519 



ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD. 



Xo. of Fig. 



1. Paii-Kou-Ch6, the Creator. — From a Chinese painting, 



2. Tlior, the Creator of the Scandinavians, reconstructing the Globe, 



3. Investigator of the Infinitely Little. — Achromatic Microscope, . 



4. Binocular Microscope, ........ 



5. Various Infusoria, ......... 



6. Successive forms assumed by the Proteus, .... 



7. Wagener's Lieberkuhnia — Lieherkuhnia Wageneri, 



8. Infusoria found at the bottom of the Sea, seen with the Microscope, 



9. 2[edusa campanularia , ........ 



10. The Hj'drostatic Physophora — Physophora muzonema, 



11. The Miliary Noctiluca, highly magnified — Xoctiluca miliaria, . 



12. The Eed Trichodesmia (Z'rtc^O(^(?smM r2(6ra), .... 



13. Infusoria and Living Diatomaceee fx-om the Strata under Berlin, 



14. Trichinai gnawing a muscle, magnified, ..... 



15. Female Trichina depositing her young, magnified, 



16. Infusoria in Tripoli, from Eichmond, N. America, 



17. Slceletons of Silicious Infusoria, as seen under the Microscope, . 



18. Microscopic view of Infusoria in Mountain-meal of Ebsdorf, 



19. Magnified Miliola with its Capillary Appendages projected, 



20. 1, Eoclc of the Arabian Chain formed by Agglomerated Nummulites 



used for building the Pyramids of Egypt ; 2, 3, Interior view of 

 Nummulites ; 4, Nummulites of wdiicli the Sphinx is exclusively 

 composed (Lybian Chain), ....... 



21. View of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Egypt, 



22. Gigantic Tridacna, used in the Moluccas as a Bathing-tub, 



23. Fossil Ammonites, ......... 



24. Monstrous Polypus met with by the Alecton, .... 



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