America, discovery of, 24, 112 Aristotle, 2, 16, 17 _n._, 30, 39, 45, 47, 63, 73, 102 _n._ Aselli, 21 BACON, FRANCIS, 39 —— Roger, 28 Bacteria, 137 Baer, Von, 66, 102, 104, 121, 127 Bagehot, 135 Baker, 67, 69 Barry, 106 Belon, 13 Bernard of Breydenbach, 23 Bestiaries, 6, 23 Bichât, 105 Bock, 9, 12, 37, 124 Bonnet, 45, 60 Bonpland, 118 Bossuet, 66 Brown, 105 _n._ Brunfels, 9, 12 Buffon, 40, 45, 63, 68, 71, 94 _n._, 95, 120, 130 Busbecq, 113 Butler, 67 CAIGNARD-LATOUR, 137 Caius, 19, 67 Camerarius, 48 Cesalpini, 12, 17 _n._, 34, 37, 80, 85 Chamisso, 100 Charlemagne, 25 Clodd, 65 _n._ Clusius, 111, 113 Cole, 86 Compton, 116 Copernicus, 20 DARWIN, C., 46, 66, 75, 91, 92, 120, 121, 124 —— E., 120 Davaine, 138 Descartes, 69 Dioscorides, 4 Dumas, 106 Duverney, 36 ENCYCLOPÆDIC Naturalists, 12 Erasistratus, 4 Evelyn, 111, 115, 116 Experiments of ancient Greeks, 3 FABRICIUS, 21 Fagon, 115 Flemings, 26 Fontana, 105 _n._ Forbes, 131 Fries, 17 Frisch, 37, 67 Fuchs, 9, 12 GAERTNER, 86 Galen, 4, 21 Galileo, 28 Galton, 63 _n._, 135 Geer, De, 37, 68 Gerarde, 20 Gesner, 11, 13, 17 _n._, 18, 19, 20, 113 Goethe, 80, 81, 84, 85 Greenhouses, 114 Grew, 32, 47, 86 HALES, 68, 77 Hamm, 34 Harvey, 21, 102 Hedwig, 87 Heide, 37 Helmont, Van, 77, 136 Herophilus, 4 Hofmeister, 83, 85, 108, 109, 122 Hooke, 29, 34, 37, 105 Hothouses, 114 Huber, 68, 77 Humboldt, 118 Hume, 72 Hutton, 66 INGENHOUSZ, 79 JUSSIEU, B. de, 51 —— A. L. de, 51 KANT, 120 King, 36 Kirby, 68 —— and Spence, 55, 133 LAMARCK, 46 Laplace, 120 Leeuwenhoek, 32, 40, 58, 60, 68, 86, 106, 137 Leibnitz, 45, 64 Leroy, 68, 73 Lessing, 120 Lindsay, 86 Linnæus, 48, 49, 52, 64, 80, 82, 85, 87, 90, 92, 124, 130 Lister, Lord, 138 —— M., 35, 43, 67 L'Obel, 12, 26, 124, 130 Locke, 70 Lyell, 66, 67, 94, 121 Lyonet, 34, 58, 60, 61, 67 MALPIGHI, 32, 36, 40, 45, 47, 127 Marco Polo, 23 Master, 36 Mattioli, 113 Medicine and botany, 7 Méry, 37, 38, 67 Micheli, 87 Microscope, 28, 48 Middle Ages, 5, 6, 25 Millington, 47 Mohl, 106 Montagu, 68 Montesquieu, 63, 120 Morgan, Lloyd, 74 Morison, 86 Moufet, 20 NEEDHAM, 40 Newton, 63 OLIVER and Scott, 83, 85 _Ortus Sanitatis_, 16 PALEY, 133 Palissy, 34 Pallas, 46 Parkinson, 20 Pasteur, 136 Pecquet, 22 Perrault, 36, 37, 67 Peter Martyr Angierius, 24 Physiologus, 6 Pliny, 5 Plumier, 115 _n._ Pope, 45 Poupart, 37, 38, 67 Prévost, 106 Priestley, 77 QUACKELBEEN, 113 RATHKE, 104, 127 Ray, 17 _n._, 22, 35, 38, 41, 48, 68, 124 Réaumur, 37, 40, 54, 60, 64, 68, 70, 87 Redi, 39 Rhineland, 11 Roesel von Rosenhof, 67, 69, 100 Rondelet, 13 Rudbeck, 22 SARS, 101