Part 26

Cockchaffer, 220.

Coins dug out of the earth, 10.

Color, probably reflected light, 60.

Coral polypi, 15.

Crossbill, the, 128.

Cruelty, a vice of the ignorant, 96.

Dandelion, the, 74.

Day’s eye, the, 74.

Death’s-head moth, 222.

Digestion, power of, in birds, 146.

Dog, usefulness of, to man, 153.

Dogsbane destructive to insects, 61.

Dry-rot, the, 88.

Dyers, capricious in their art, 59.

Dyers’ broom, 58

— gathering of, 59

— uses of, ibid.

— dyers’ weed, 72.

Earth-worm, the common, 231.

Elm tree, the wych, a singularly beautiful one, 46

— value of, 47

— uses of, ibid.

— soon decays, 48

— leaves of the elm marked with plague-spots, 89.

Empiricism, 235.

Entomology, 190.

Evaporation from the earth, effect of, 63.

Fairfax, general, supposed skeletons of some of his foragers, 11.