[907] Brit. Animals, p. 149., who cites Sibbald.

[908] Zool. Journ. vol iii. p. 406. Dec. 1827.

[909] Sur les Habitations des Animaux Marins.--Ann. du Mus., tome. xv., cited by Prichard, Phys. Hist. of Mankind, vol. i.

p. 51.

[910] Brit. a.s.soc. Reports, vol. v. p. 203.

[911] Report to the Brit. a.s.soc., 1845, p. 192.

[912] Richardson, ibid. p. 190.

[913] Sir J. Richardson, ibid. p. 190.

[914] Phil. Trans. 1747, p. 395.

[915] Amoen. Acad., Essay 75.

[916] Report to the Brit a.s.soc. 1843, p. 130.

[917] Quart. Journ., Geol. Soc., 1846, vol. ii. p. 268.

[918] Four individuals of a large species of land sh.e.l.l (_Bulimus_), from Valparaiso, were brought to England by Lieutenant Graves, who accompanied Captain King in his expedition to the Straits of Magellan. They had been packed up in a box, and enveloped in cotton: two for a s.p.a.ce of thirteen, one for seventeen, and a fourth for upwards of twenty months: but, on being exposed by Mr. Broderip to the warmth of a fire in London, and provided with tepid water and leaves, they revived, and lived for several months in Mr.

Loddiges' palm-house, till accidentally drowned.

[919] Camb. Phil. Trans., vol. iv. 1831.

[920] Edin. New Phil. Journ., April 1844.

[921] Phil. Trans. 1835, p. 303.

[922] The specimen is preserved in the Museum of the Zool.

Soc. of London.

[923] This specimen is in the collection of my friend Mr.

Broderip, who observes, that this crab, which was apparently in perfect health, could not have cast her sh.e.l.l for six years, whereas some naturalists have stated that the species moults annually, without limiting the moulting period to the early stages of the growth of the animal.

[924] Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. iv. p. 336.

[925] Voy. aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 492.

[926] Geographie Generale des Insectes et des Arachnides. Mem.

du Mus. d'Hist. Nat., tom. iii.

[927] Kirby and Spence, vol. iv. p. 487; and other authors.

[928] Kirby and Spence, vol. iv. p. 497.

[929] Washington Irving's Tour in the Prairies, ch. ix.

[930] Malte-Brun, vol. v. p. 379.

[931] Kirby and Spence, vol. ii. p. 9. 1817.

[932] Kirby and Spence, vol. ii. p. 12. 1817.

[933] I am indebted to Lieutenant Graves, R.N., for this information.

[934] I state this fact on the authority of my friend, Mr.

John Curtis.

[935] Brand's Select Dissert. from the Amoen. Acad., vol. i.

p. 118.

[936] Ibid.

[937] Sir H. Davy, Consolations in Travel, p. 74.

[938] W. von Humboldt, "On the Kawi Language," &c. cited in Cosmos. Introduction.

[939] Egypten's Stelle, &c. Egypt restored to her Place in Universal History, by C. C. J. Bunsen. 1845.

[940] For Grecian and Asiatic deluges, see above, p. 356.; Cimbrian, p. 331., Chinese, p. 7. Peruvian, p. 502.; Chilian or Araucanian deluge, p. 500.

[941] See p. 615.

[942] Malte-Brun's Geography, vol. iii. p. 419.

[943] Chamisso states that the water which they brought up was cooler, and _in their opinion_, less salt. It is difficult to conceive its being fresher near the bottom, except where submarine springs may happen to rise.

[944] Kotzebue's Voyage, 1815-1818. Quarterly Review, vol.

xxvi. p. 361.

[945] Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific, &c., in the years 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, p. 170.

[946] Gloger, Aband. der Vogel, p. 103.; Pallas, Zoog.

Rosso-Asiat., tom. ii. p. 197.

[947] Syst. of Geog., vol. viii. p. 169.

[948] De terra habitabili incremento; also Prichard, Phys.

Hist, of Mankind, vol. i. p. 17., where the hypotheses of different naturalists are enumerated.

[949] Necker, Phytozool. Philosoph. p. 21.; Brocchi, Conch.

Foss. Subap., tome i. p. 229.

[950] Amoen. Acad. vol. vi. p. 17. -- 12.

[951] Ibid. vol. vii. p. 409.