Part 62

Davis, Sir George, and the lion, 170, 171.

Deer family, 290, 291; their sensibility of smell, 300.

Dessin Island, rabbits on, blind of one eye, 222.

Dickens on sellers of bears' grease, 59, 60.

Dog and the French murderers, 104, 105.

Dog-cheap, 100.

Dog-matic, 113.

Dog-rose, 133.

Dogs, 77-87.

Douglas, General, and the rats, 201.

Dragon-fly exhibited at a show, 61.

Dresden, Battle of, General Moreau killed at, 113.

Drew on the instinct of dogs, 98-100.

Dromedary, Capt. Peel on its rate of motion, 289.

Dunbar, Rev. Rowland Hill at, 261.

Durian, an eastern fruit, 14.

Earl's Court, Hunter's menagerie at, 300-302.

Eastern dogs, 84, 85.

Echidna aculeata, 192.

Edentata, 228.

Edmonstone, Dr, on Shetland seals, 176-182.

Eglintoun, Countess of, her fondness for rats, 200, 201.

Elephant and his trunk, 232; anecdotes of, 234-236.

Epomophorus, a genus of tropical bats alluded to by the poet-laureate, 39.

Erskine's sheep and the woolsack, 298.

Esquimaux dogs, 78, 86.

Ettrick Shepherd's monkey, 27, 28; on fox-hunting, 139-141; on whales, 316.

Fabricius on Arctic fox, 143.