Grimm, Jacob, graceful symbolism attached to falling stars in the Lithuanian mythology, 112, 113.
Gulf Stream, its origin and course, 307.
Gumprecht, pyroxenic nepheline, 253.
Guanaxuato, striking subterranean noise at, 209.
Hall, Sir James, his experiments on mineral fusion, 262.
Halley, comet, 43, 100, 102-109; on the meteor of 1686, 118, 133; on the light of stars, 152; hypothesis of the earth being a hollow sphere, 171; his bold conjecture that the Aurora Borealis was a magnetic phenomenon, 193.
Hansteen on magnetic lines of declination in Northern Asia, 182.
Hausen on the material contents of the moon, 96.
Hedenstrom on the so-called "Wood Hills" of New Siberia, 281.
Hegel, quotation from his "Philosophy of History," 76.