Land, sea and sky, or, Wonders of life and nature : a description of the physical geography and organic life of the earth / translated from the German of Herman J. Klein and Dr.Thomé by J.Minshull.

  • Klein, Hermann J. (Hermann Joseph), 1844-1914.
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[1884]
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    INDEX. Andes, Sierra of, 726. Sugar-cane on, 727. Aninialcula', Microscopic, from the sea, 43. Animal friendships, 416. life. Necessaries of^ 398. Animals, Hartmann upon, 400. in Siberia, Diseases of, 424. Protective mimicry in, 401. Regions of, 419. Rule of leadership, 419. Social life of, 415. Wandering propensities of, 403. Antarctic seas, 819. Anteater of Central Africa, 601. Antelopes, 601. Antilles, Rain in, 707. Submersion of the, 122. Ants, 603. Apes of Africa, 400. Arabia, Animals of, 480. Coffee in, 477. Date palm, 477, Flora of central, 476. Arabians, Dispersion of, 3. Highly versed in science, 3. Aral Sea, 461. Arbutus, wliere found, 468. Archipelagoes, 600. Arctic circle, 59. Regions, Wrangall's expedition to the, 121. Seas, Ice of the, 61. Temperature of the, 57. Argentine Republic, Cattle in, 769. Argostali, Botanical expedition in, 127. Bay of, 128, Sea mills at, 128. and the v>'aves of the ocean, 76. Armenia, facts about, 464. Asia, Banyan, mangrove, and lotus of, 493- Decrease of the waters in, 219, 220. Eastern, Amphibia of, 554. Organic life in, 513. Western, Lowlands of, 456. Asiatic jungle, 490, 491, Astronomical twilight, 327. Expedition imder Captain Von Schleinitz, 51, Atlantic currents, 108, 112. Ocean, 52, loi. States, Flora of, 671. Atmosphere, Action of the sun's light on, 323. Collective absorption of light as allied to, 322. Density of, 321. Electric phenomena of the, 360, Influence of the, upon the sunrise and sunset, 327. Moisture of, 341, 342. not wholly transparent, 321. of the earth, 321. Optical phenomena in the earth's 324- Presence of electricity in, 360. Transmittal of the sun's rays, 330. Variableness of the transparency of, 321. Waters of the, 343. when coldest, 331, when perfectly transparent, 327. Atra, Steppes of, 602. Attractive force of matter, 78. At the bottom of the sea, 96. Australia, 777. Diminution of land in, 239. Australia, Flora of, 778—781. I'auna of, 782—786. Rainfall of, 777. Avalanches, Causes and consequences of, 264, 265. Axis, Earth's rotation round its, 18. Bahamas, 727, Balsam trees of Central Africa, 614. Baltic, Chief current of the, 129. Diminution of the waters of the, 227. Distribution of salt in, 129. Division of chief current, 130. Floods, 130, 131, Influence of the north-west winds upon the currents, 130. Ocean currents, 129, Bananas and cocoa palms of Central Africa, 617. Barbary, rainy season, 143. Barometer, New rise of, 6. Pressure of the, not uniform, 323. Barometric maxima and minima, 352 .—355- Bats, 399. Bear's Island, 119. Beech woods in Denmark, 298. Bees, their mode of living, 417. Beetles of Central Africa, 597. Of Australia, 786. Bell-flower plants, 388. Benzcnberg, Experiment by, 20. Betel in the East Indies, 507. Bethlehem, Hepworth Dixon on, 469. Birds, Aid given by, in the distribution of seeds. 403. Dispersal of, 404. of Far North America, 660. of passage, 415. of the plains, 639. Migrations of to Greece, 804 Black Sea, Evaporation of water in the, 125. Flora of the coasts, 466. Frozen over, 70. Bognalaneski, Dr. Von, upon sea- soundings, 55. Bokhara and Samarcand, 458. Vambery on, 456. Bordeaux, Tide-wave below, 89. Borneo, Camphor of, 530. Durian of, 529. Fauna of, 530. Orang-oiitang of, 530 Pitcher plants of, 530. Plants belonging to, 496. Wooded country in, 529. Botanical geography, Table of, 409. Another method of classification, 409. Statistics of, 408. Bourbon, Isle of. Woods of, 646. Boussingault upon sprmgs, 149. Brahmaputra, Volume of the, 195. Brazil, Butterflies of, 761. Climate of, 755. ■ Cultivated plants of, 760. Fauna of, 761. Flora of, 756. Forests of, 737, 755. Influence of the south-east trade- wind in, 755. Ipecacuanha of, 757. Mate and coca, 758. Shrub formations of, 757. Snakes and serpents of, 761. Bread-fruit, The, in India, 497. Breakers, how formed, 73. Bristol Channel, width of, 89. British India, I'orests of, 492.' Isles, 226, 238. how formed, 226. Brocken, Spectre of the, 330 Brown, Robert, The colour of the sea 41. Buffaloes, 516, 620, 680, Bunsen upon the colour of water, 20 Burkhardt on the mirage, 328. Burmah, Teak forests of, 492. Vegetation of the coast of, 504. Burmeister on phosphorescent ani- malculae, 45. Butterflies, 402. of Central Africa, 597, of Sumatra, 525. Wallace's collection of, 517. Cabul, Rice in, 475. Cactus, Highest development of, 700. Tribes of the, 700. Caffa, Coffee of, 477. Calchis, Vine in the woods of 463. Caldrons, how produced, 209. where principally found, 209. California, Alluvial plain of, 674. Conifer forests of, 675. Crested quail of, 683. Drought in, 666, 690. Electricity in, 365. Fruits of, 676. Glaciers in, 272. Mammoth tree of, 675. Obstacles to agriculture in, 691, Plants of, 666. Rainy season of, 666. Scenery of Upper, 674. Camel, The Bactrian, 407. in the Desert of Sahara, 378. Popular fallacies relating to the, 380. Canada, Flora of, 662. Caharies of Madeira, 653. Canary Islands, 652. Caraccas, Destruction of, by an earth- quake, 200. Carinthia, Former glaciers in, 271. Carpenter on the submarine current in the Straits of Gibraltar, 125. Carthage, Silk trees of, 732. Cascades of Tivoli, The, 179. Caspian Sea, Division of, 219. Fish in, 462. Formations in the, 218. Once a lake, 217. Plains of, 2K0, Salt of the, 218. Ust-Urt in the, 219. Catania, Earthquake at, 279. Cattle-farming in U.S., 692, 693, 698. Caucasus, Climate of, 463. Pauna of, 464. Flora of, 463. Trans-division of the, 463. Caves, 185—190. Cedar forests in Kamaroon, 489. Cedars of I^ebanon, 471. Celebes, Fauna of, 536, 537 Mountainous character of, 536. why fan-shaped, 239. Centaur, Star known as, 11. Central Africa, Acacia of, 592. Animals of, 597. Anteater of, 6ot. Antelopes of, 601. Balsam trees of, 614. Bananas and cocoa palms of, 617.