INDEX. 



791 



Masaya, crater of, its vast extent, 052; 

 Popocatepetl, engraving; of crater, 653; 

 Cotopaxi, eruption of, in 1553, 055 ; Etna, 

 and engraving of crater, 050; Vesuvius, 

 650; eruption in 1793 in island of Kiou- 

 sion, Japan, 059 ; submarine eruption in 

 Bay of Santorin, Grecian Archipelago, 059, 

 note; fish ejected by, engraving of, 000; 

 theories respecting, 001; hut springs or gey- 

 sers connected with, 005 ; basalt formed Ijy, 

 606. 



Voltaire, error as to shells, 621, and 'iivtc. 



Vultures attracted from great distances by 

 putrid emanations, 333. 



w. 



Wagener's Lieberkuhnia [Lkhcrliulinia Wa- 



gcneri), engraving of, 15. 

 AVarty nostoc, 552 ; engraving of, 552. 

 "Wasp, Paper-making, nest of, 214; engraving 



of, and of nest, 215. 

 "Water-beetle [Hiidrophilas piccus), 212. 

 "Water-hen [FaUca ckloropus), nest of, 285; 



engraving of, 283. 

 "Water-leu til, root of, 377. 

 Wax-palm of the Andes ( Ceroxylon andicola), 



415 ; engi-aving of, 443. 

 Weaver-birds, nests of various, 305, et scq. 

 "Weeping-tree [Cci^salpinia pl't-^'iosa), 425; eu- 



gi-a-ving of, 427. 

 White, Mr., on intellectual development of 



animals, 152. 

 Wild-geese, Catching, engraving of, 315. 



"Wine-bearing sago-palm {Sarjus vinifera), 

 extraction of sap from, 407 ; engraving of, 

 413. 



Wiiig of a butterfly seen v^'ith the magnify- 

 ing-glass, engraving of, 113. 



'\Vitches' brooms, 111. 



"Witches, plateau of the dance of, in the 

 Harz, 643'^^^- 



"Wood, the component parts of, 383. 



Wood-T)orers, 80. 



Wood-boring insects, 225. 



AVool, transportation of seeds in, 502. 



Worms, Intestinal, in sheep, 20. 



Wren, Common, 259; engraving of nest of, 

 269; party-coloured, nest of, 298; engrav- 

 ing of nests, 299; golden-crested, young of, 

 killed by cuckoo, engraving, 277 



X. 



Xylocopa vwlacea, 206, note. 



Yellow amber, histoiy of, 618, and note. 

 Yellow-footed gulls, engraving of, 333. 

 Young Esquimaux, engraving of, 680. 



z. 



Zambesi, 1).inks of, infesteel by tsetse-fly, 106. 

 Zodiac of Denderali, 610. 



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