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Index
NOTE: Works by Alexander von Humboldt (AH) appear directly under title; works by others under author’s name
Académie des Sciences, Paris, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1, 17.1, 20.1
Acapulco (Mexico)
Adams, John, 12.1, 15.1
Adrianople, Treaty of (1828)
Agassiz, Louis, 20.1, 20.2
Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), Congress of (1818)
Albemarle (Virginia): Agricultural Society
Albert, Prince Consort
Alexandra, Empress of Nicholas I of Russia, 15.1, 16.1
Allmers, Hermann, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
Alps: AH crosses
Altai Mountains (Russia), 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Amazon, River (South America): AH visits, 4.1, 5.1; Muir visits, 23.1
America (New World): Buffon criticizes; see also Latin America; United States of America
Andes: plant distribution, prl.1, 7.1; AH and Bonpland cross, 6.1, 6.2; Church’s painting of, 20.1
Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar), 5.1, 12.1, 12.2
animal electricity (Galvanism), 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1
animals: species distribution
anthrax: epidemic in Siberia, 16.1, 16.2
Antisana (volcano, Ecuador), prl.1, 6.1
Apure, Rio, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1
Arago, François, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 18.1, 20.1
Aragua valley (Venezuela), 4.1, 5.1, 8.1, 21.1
Ararat, Mount, 15.1, 16.1
Aristotle
Art Nouveau
Asia: AH’s expedition to, 14.1, 15.1; see also India
Asie centrale, recherches sur les chaînes des montagnes et la climatologie comparée, 16.1
Atabapo, Rio
Auerstadt, battle of (1806)
Austerlitz, battle of (1805), 9.1, 10.1
Austria: Wilhelm von Humboldt in, 11.1; new constitution (1848), 20.1
Babbage, Charles, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Bacon, Francis
Bahia (now San Salvador, Brazil), 17.1, 17.2
Baikal, Lake (Central Asia)
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
ballooning
Balzac, Honoré de, 11.1, 18.1
Banks, Sir Joseph: AH meets in London, 1.1, 13.1; AH requests passport for Bonpland, 3.1; AH sends specimens to, 6.1, 11.1; on internationalism of science, 6.2, 8.1; library, 6.3; aids AH, 11.2; praises AH at Royal Society, 13.2; and Robert Brown, 14.1
Baraba Steppe (Russia), 16.1, 16.2
Barnaul (Russia)
Baudin, Captain Nicolas, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Beagle, HMS: Darwin sails on expedition, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4; FitzRoy captains, 17.5; itinerary, 17.6
Bello, Andrés, 9.1, 15.1
Belukha (mountain, Altai chain)
Berlin: AH dislikes, 10.1, 10.2, nts.1; AH travels to with Gay-Lussac (1805), 10.3; royal court in, 10.4; garden house, 10.5, 10.6; experiments in, 10.7; AH writes Views of Nature in, 10.8; AH leaves (1804), 10.9; AH moves to from Paris (1827), 14.1, 15.1; life in, 15.2; AH lectures in, 15.3, 15.4; scientific conference (1828), 15.5; AH returns to from Russian expedition, 16.1; university, 18.1; AH disparages, 18.2; Oranienburger Straße flat, 18.3; revolution (1848), 20.1; ageing AH’s life in, 20.2; see also Germany; Prussia; Tegel
Berlin Academy of Sciences, 10.1, 15.1
Berlioz, Hector
Berry, Charles Ferdinand de Bourbon, Duc de
Berry, Wendell
Berzelius, Jöns Jacob, 15.1, 20.1
Binet, René
Bismarck, Prince Otto von
Bladgen, Charles
Bligh, Captain William
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1.1, 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1; Über den Bildungstrieb, 1.2
boa constrictors, 5.1, 5.2
Bogotá (Colombia), 6.1, 12.1
Bolívar, Simón: praises AH, prl.1; AH meets in Paris, 9.1; in Rome, 9.2; revolutionary activities, 9.3, 12.1, 12.2; climbs Chimborazo, 12.3, 12.4; returns to South America (1807), 12.5; writings and language, 12.6, 12.7; as nature lover, 12.8, 12.9, 12.10; flees Caracas for Curaçao, 12.11; character and qualities, 12.12, 12.13; studies AH’s writings on South America, 12.14; declares freedom for slaves, 12.15; appearance, 12.16; leads llaneros, 12.17; presents constitution at Angostura congress, 12.18; letter to AH on South America and nature, 12.19; on AH’s defence of Latin America, 12.20; Spain seeks support against at Aachen, 14.1; invites Bonpland to return to Latin America, 14.2; attempts release of Bonpland, 14.3; AH recommends young French scientist to, 14.4; vision of Latin American league of free nations, 15.1; death from TB, 20.1; García Márquez writes on, 20.2; decrees tree-planting programme, 21.1; ‘Letter from Jamaica’, 12.21; ‘My Delirium on Chimborazo’, 12.22, 12.23
Bonaparte, Joséphine
Bonpland, Aimé: silhouette, 3.1; AH meets in Paris, 3.2; accompanies AH on expedition to Latin America, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3; experiences earthquake in Cumaná, 4.3; experiments with electric eels, 5.7; seeks protection against mosquitoes, 5.8; fevers and dysentery, 5.9, 6.4; sends specimens back to Europe, 6.5; AH’s relations with, 6.6; climbs Chimborazo with AH, 7.1; in Guayaquil, 7.2; travels to USA, 8.1; meets Jefferson, 8.2, 8.3; returns to France, 9.1; granted French government pension, 9.2; encourages Bolívar’s revolutionary ideas, 9.3; botanical writings, 9.4, 10.1; and AH’s visit to Vesuvius, 9.5; plans further expedition, 10.2; AH stays with in Paris, 11.1; invited back to South America, 14.1; unavailable to accompany AH to Asia, 14.2; imprisoned by Paraguayans and released, 14.3, 20.1; correspondence with AH, 20.2; death, 20.3
Boston, Massachusetts
botany see plants
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de, 1.1, 3.1
Bouguer, Pierre, 6.1, 10.1
Boves, José Tomás, 12.1, 12.2
Boyacà, battle of (1819)
Brazil: Darwin in, 17.1, 17.2; see also Latin America
Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa)
Bristol, Frederick Augustus Hervey, prl.1th Earl of, 3.1
Britain: Industrial Revolution and economic prosperity, 1.1; mercenaries support Bolívar, 12.1; commercial dominance, 13.1; political reforms, 15.1, 17.1; abolishes slavery, 17.2; see also London
Brown, Robert
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard
Buch, Leopold von, 9.1, 10.1
Buckland, William
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 4.1, 12.1
Byron, George Gordon, prl.1th Baron: Don Juan, 13.1
Cajamarca Plateau (Peru)
Calabozo (Venezuela)
Caldas, Francisco José de, 6.1, 12.1
California: gold in, 19.1; Muir in, 23.1–21, 23.1, 23.2
Canary Islands, 3.1, 17.1
Cancrin, Count Georg von, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Canning, George, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1
Cape Verde islands
Capri (island)
Captaincy Generals (Latin America)
capybaras (Latin American rodents), 5.1, 17.1
Caracas (Venezuela): AH visits, 4.1; earthquakes (1812), 12.1, 15.1; Bolívar occupies, 12.2; in revolutionary war, 12.3; Bolívar regains (1821), 12.4
Carlos IV, King of Spain
Carquairazo (mountain, Ecuador)
Carr, Jeanne, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3
Carson, Rachel: Silent Spring
Cartagena (Colombia), 6.1, 12.1
Casiquiare River (South America), 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
Caspian Sea
Caucasus Mountains
Century (magazine)
Chambers, Richard: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 18.1
Chaptal, Jean Antoine
Charles X, King of France
Chateaubriand, François-René, Vicomte de, 10.1, 11.1
Chimborazo (volcano, Ecuador): AH climbs, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1; pictured, 7.3, 12.1; AH sketches, 7.4, 10.2; and Naturgemälde, 7.5, 10.3; Bol�
�var on, 12.2, 12.3
China: AH crosses border into
Church, Frederic Edwin: The Heart of the Andes (painting)
cinchona tree, 7.1, 21.1
Ciudad Bolívar see Angostura
Clark, William, 8.1, 19.1
climate: AH on science of, 14.1, 18.1
climate change: and human intervention, 4.1, 4.2, 16.1; UN report on, bm1.1
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: influenced by AH, prl.1, 13.1; on oneness with nature, 2.1; attends Davy’s lectures, 11.1; opposes scientific method, 19.1
colonialism: AH condemns, prl.1, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1; and effect on environment, prl.2, 4.1, 8.2; Spanish, 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 8.3, 9.2, 11.1, 12.2, 13.3, 14.1, 16.2, 16.3, 20.1; and slavery, 4.3, 8.4, bm1.1; and treatment of indigenous peoples, 5.1; Jefferson opposes, 8.5, 12.3; Bolívar rebels against, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 14.2, 15.1, 20.2; see also India
Como, Lake (Italy)
Concord, Massachusetts, 19.1, 19.2
Condamine, Charles-Marie de la, 6.1, 10.1
Confederation of the Rhine
Constantinople: Marsh in
Cook, Captain James, 1.1, 6.1
Copernicus, Nicolaus, prl.1, 2.1
Cosmos. A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe (AH): title, prl.1, 18.1; international contributions to, 18.2; writing and organization, 18.3, 18.4, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3; on dynamic change, 18.5; publication, 18.6, 18.7, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6; contents, 18.8, 22.1; Darwin reads, 18.9; English translations, 18.10; reception, 18.11; Emerson reads, 18.12; Thoreau reads, 19.1; proposed abridgement, 20.7; and Darwinism, 22.2; influence on Haeckel, 22.3; Muir reads, 23.1
Cotopaxi (volcano, Ecuador), 6.1, 7.1
Cotta, Johann Georg von
creoles: status in Spanish America, 4.1, 9.1
crocodiles: on Orinoco, 5.1, 17.1
Cruz, José de la, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1
Cuba, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 23.1
Cumaná (Venezuela), 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 17.1
curare
Cuvier, Georges, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1, 14.2
Darwin, Charles: praises AH, prl.1, 20.1; on origin of species, prl.2; theory of evolution, prl.3, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1; and adaptation of life forms, 2.1; and grandfather Erasmus’s Loves of the Plants, 2.2; requests copy of AH’s Views of Nature, 10.1; influenced by AH’s Personal Narrative, 13.1, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 18.2, 20.2; Lyell supports, 14.1; gives up medical studies, 14.2, 17.7; on Beagle expedition, 17.8, 17.9; seasickness, 17.10, 17.11; background, 17.12; and Lyell’s Principles of Geology, 17.13; returns to England (1836), 17.14; intense work and writings, 17.15; on species distribution, 17.16, 18.3; notebook references to AH, 17.17; on predatory nature, 17.18; AH meets, 18.4; ill health, 18.5; marriage, 18.6; reads AH’s Cosmos, 18.7; unaware of AH’s death, 20.3; death, 20.4; racial theories, 22.1; accused of heresy, 22.2; Haeckel reads and champions, 22.3; Haeckel meets, 22.4; Origin of Species, 10.2, 17.19, 18.8, 20.5, 22.5; Voyage of the Beagle, 17.20, 18.9; Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 17.21