Views of nature: or Contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation / with scientific illustrations

by Alexander von Humboldt

[KX]. Annales des Sciences naturelles, t. vi., 1825, p. 277.

[KY]. Darwin, Coral Reefs, p. 63–65.

[KZ]. Chamisso, in Kotzebue’s Entdeckungsreise, bd. iiiv s. 108.

[LA]. See my Essai Politique sur l’Ile de Cuba, t. ii. p. 137.

[LB]. Petr. Martyr, Oceanica, 1532, Dec. 1, p. 9; Gomara, Hist. de las Indias, 1553, fol. xiv.

[LC]. Lacépède, Hist. nat. des Poissons, t. i. p. 55.

[LD]. Transactions of the Geological Soc., 2nd Ser. vol. v. P. 1, 1837, p. 103.

[LE]. Annales des Sciences naturelles, t. vi., 1825, p. 273.

[LF]. See Darwin’s Journal, 1845, p. 467, also his Structure of Coral Reefs, pp. 84–87; and Sir Robert Schomburgk, Hist. of Barbadoes, 1848, p. 636.

[LG]. Report on Ægean Invertebrata in the Report of the Thirteenth Meeting of the British Association, held at Cork in 1843, pp. 151, 161.