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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