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Alphabetical index

Acacia catechu, 356.17-18
Acapulco, 239.12
acorn moth (Blastobasis glandulella) , 378.04-05
Acropolis, East Facade of Propylaea, 350.01-02
Ada, cover of first Penguin edition, Afternote Part 1, Ch 2, Afternote Part 1, Ch 16
Ada typescript page, 207.09-11
Adam, Parmagianino, preparatory sketch of, 12.30-13.05, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 5
Adam and Eve, Parmagianino, 12.30-13.05, 60.12-14, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 15
Adams, Robert, Etruscan Dressing-Room, Osterley, 349.33-34
Adamovich, Georgy, 430.12ƒ
Admiral Pavel Nakhimov, 458.02-03
Adula mountains, 168.28ß
aerogram, 178.07
aeroplane, Farman I, 36.03-08
Alfonos IV of Portugal, 1621, 456.01-02
agave, Parry's (Agave parryi) , 376.02-03, 414.25-28
Agave americana and Aloe arborescens, 385.06-07
Aix-en-Provence, France, 256.12
Aksakov, Sergey, 150.19-20, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 24
Akimiski Island, 429.05-06
Alaska Fur Seal, 391.14-27
Alberti, Leon Battista, 149.25
Alder trees, 216.34
Aldiss, Brian, 340.04
Alhambra, The Court of the Lions, 342.31-33,
Alice, the White Rabbit, and the Mad Hatter, (by José de Creeft), 404.05
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, illustration of a card figure, by Sir John Tenniel, 226.10-12
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustration of flamingo croquet by Sir John Tenniel, 53.25-28
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carrol, illustration of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, by John Tenniel, 222.16-17
Almeh, 394.13
Aloe arborescens and Agave americana, 385.06-07
Aloutta ursina, ursine howler, 64.12
alpenstock, 305.26-30, 311.32-34, 445.31-32,
Alpes Martimes, map, 8.02
Alpine columbine, (Aquilegia alpina), 7.07-9.10
Alpine columbine, 7.23
Altyn Tag, 20.05b
Amaranthus caudatus, 348.11-12
ambon, 443.13
American elm, 53.34-54.01, 92.31-33
American football, 69.08-09
American mink (vison), 391.19
American ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus), 256.29-30, 258.29-30
Amis, Kingsley, 107.25-26, 340.04
anadem, 89.03
Analytical Enginee, the, 224.33-34
anemones, 37.13-14
Andersen, Hans Christian, 281.32-34
angelica (Angelica litoralis), 155.11
Annual Fleabane, (Erigeron annuus), 156.02b
Anthocharis cardamines butterfly, 57.03-05
Appenzeller hound, 22.22
apple canker, 168.12
Apuleius, Lucius, Afternote Part 1 Ch. 10
arabesque patterns, 351.03b
arbutus tree, 351.03c
Arden Elizabeth, 420.32-33,
Arden forest, 371.02
Ardez, 122.12-13
Ardisia elliptica, 225.17-19
argus, Brown (Aricia agestis), 425.30
argus, Great (Argusianus argus), 425.30
Armenia, map, 330.20, 449.04.05
Armstrong-Jones, Antony, Lord Snowdon, 330.19-20
Arnold, Jack, 340.13-19
Arnold, Matthew, 145.19-21
Argynnis niobe fritillary butterfly, 57.13, 404.18
Aricia icarioides, 94.07
Arp Hans, sculpture, 178.08, 350.20a
Arrowhead, Lake, 324.01-04
Asparagus officinalis, 259.09-14
aster flowers (Aster amelius), 156.02
Astor, J. J., residence in Chetwood. Newport, 349.32-33
Astrophel and Stella, title page, 156.02
Atahualpa, 341.20
Atala by Chateaubriand, sketch by Gustave Doré, 89.15
Auden, W. H., 127.32-33, 270.24-25
Audubon, John James, 47.18-19
Audubon, John James, Carolina pigeons (Mourning doves), 47.18-19
Austen, Jane, Sotherton Court from Mansfield Park, sketches by VN, Forenote Part 1, Ch. 6
Austen, Jane, portrait, 8.25-28, 35,17-18; 249.02-05
Avri, Édouard-Henri, 220.21-22
Ayhenvald, Yuli, 31.14-15
Azov, sea port, 232.27
Azov sea, 232.27

Babbage, Charles, 224.33-34
Babes in the Wood, illustration by Randolph Caldecott, 153.32-3, 163.19, 191.10
Bacchanal of the Andrians, by Titian, 141.17
Bacchus by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 140.15-22
Baden Powell, 295.12
Baie des Anges, 449.11,
Bakst, Leon, 1916, 430.12-13
Bakst, Leon, Set and costume design for Scheherazade, 1910, 217.26-27
Bakst, Léon, portrait of Andrey Bely, 240.21-22
Bald Eagle, 133.26
ball in a cup, 82.13-14
Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola), 111.16-112.16
Balzac, Honoré de, 198.26-29
Banff as seen from the top of the gondola, 410.13
Banff Park Museum,, 410.13
Banks, Joseph, 63.07
Banksia integrifolia, 63.07
Bannister, Roger, 125.30-31
Barbarella, 406.23
Bardot, Brigitte, 380.29-31
barn swallow, English, 87.15
Barton and Guestier wine advertisement, 58.10-12
Baron Ponsonby, 330.18-19
Basket of Fruit, by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 140.15-22
Battleship Potemkin, film, 182.14-15
Baudelaire, Charles, 176.04-05, 106.11-26
Bayard, Émile, illustration for François le bossu by Sophie de Ségur, 114.01-02
Beacon Street Mall, Boston , 436.13-14
Beauvoir, de, Simone, 380.29-31
Beauty and the Beast, illustration by Walter Crane, 190.14
beaver, German (nemetskiy bobr), 391.19-20
beaver, Eurasian (Castor fiber), 391.14-27
Beckett, Samuel, 1977, 315.13-16, 344.08-10, 371.15, 420.09-10
bed bug (Cimex lectularius), 141.15-16
bee, wild (Eucera (Synhalonia) sp.), 101.16-17
Bell, Alexander Graham, hydrofoil, 3.10-11
Bell, Alexander Graham, telephone, 23.09
Belleau, Rémy, 457.25-26,
Bellini, Jacopo, Cruxifixion, 418.29-31
Bellow, Saul, 343.10-11
beluga caviar, 79.30
Bely, Andre by Léon Bakst, 240.21-22
Benzaiten, the goddess, 226.14
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri, 127.19-20
Bernhardt, Sarah, 160.01
Bernina Express, 450-09-10,
Bergson, Henri, 1927, 377.05-14
Bessarabia, map of, 330.19
Bezborodko, Alexander, 330.18-19
Bible Belt, USA, 241.23-26
Bibliothèque rose illustrée, illustration for Les Petites Filles modèles by Sophie de Ségur , 114.01-02
Bidet de Selle, 457.14-23
bilberry, 85.03-04
Bird of Paradise, Afternote Part One, Ch. 5, 387.15
Bird of Paradise displaying, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 30
Bird of Paradise, King, 410.08
Bird of paradise, (Lophorina superba), 410.08
Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, 4.16(b), 349.02, 392.24
Black Locust or 'false acacia' (Robinia pseudoacacia), 277.01-02
Black Swallowtail butterfly (Papillio polyxenes), 148.09
bladder senna flowers (Colutea arborescens), 124.24, 125.03, 128.06, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 20, 194.04, 398.27
bladder senna seedpods (Colutea arborescens), 125.03, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 20
Blas, Gil, cover for La Parure, 1893, 63.14,
Blaschka glass flower and burnet moth, 13.33
Blass, Bill, 78.22-23, 187.07, Afternote Part One, Chaper 31
Blennosperma, 373.10
Blériot plane, 14.24
Blind Girl, The, John Everett Millais, 131.34
Blind Leading the Blind, Brueghel, Pieter, 81.33-82.03, 347.01-02,
Bloch, Iwan, Sexual Life of our Time, The,, 131.17
Blok, Alexander, 4.22, 53.22-24
Blonde Woman, A, by Palma Vecchio, 141.18-19
blue, common (Polyommatusicarus), 178.08-11
Bluebird, mountain (Sialia currucoides), 191.30
bluets (Houstonia ssp.), 299.02
bog orchid, 376.02-03
bogberry, (Oxycoccus palustris), 72.31, 85.03-04
Boletus auratiacus, red bolete, 119.25, 142.13, 276.19-20, 405.24-26,
Boloria selene fritillary butterfly, 57.14-26
Bonne Nuit les Petits, 6.01-03, Afternote Pt. 1 Ch1., 118.02
bonze, 91.04-08
Boreal Owl (Aegolius funereus), 148.09
Borges Jorge Luis, 77.02-05, 344.08-10
Bosch, Hieronymus, Death and the Miser, 433.07-08,
Bosch, Hieronymus, Garden of Earthly Delights, 5.10-11, Aft Part 1, Ch 1, 60.15, Aft Part 1, Ch 9, Aft Part 1, Ch 11, Aft Part 1, Ch 14, Aft Part 1, Ch 15, Aft Part 1, Ch 16, 103.13, Aft Part 1, Ch 20, Forenote Part 1, Ch. 21, Aft Part 1, Ch. 21, Aft Part 1, Ch 31, Aft Part 1, Ch 32, Aft Part 1, Ch 38, Aft Part 2, Ch 2, 426.13-14, 433.25, 436.28
Bosch, Hieronymus, Garden of Earthly Delights, left panel, Aft Part 1, Chapter 25, Aft Part 1, Ch. 36
Bosch, Hieronymus, Garden of Earthly Delights, centre panel, Aft Part 1, Ch. 22, Aft Part 1, Ch 33, Aft Part 1, Chapter 34, Aft Part 1, Ch. 36, 331.15-18, 334.19-20, Aft Part 2, Ch 7, 426.15-16, 433.25, 457.14-23
Bosch, Hieronymus, Garden of Earthly Delights, right panel, Aft Part 1, Ch. 22, Aft Part 1, Ch 33, Aft Part 1, Ch. 36, 315.04-06
Bosch, Hieronymus, Garden of Earthly Delights, right panel, hellish hounds, 438-23-24
Bosch, Hieronymus, Garden of Earthly Delights, external panels: Creation, Aft. Part 2, Ch 2
Bosch, Hieronymus, Garden of Earthly Delights, central panel, man embracing a strawberry, 437.14-15,
Bosch, Hieronymus, Garden of Eartly Delights, central panel, bird detail, 436.28
Bosch, Hieronymus, Garden of Eartly Delights, central panel, blue thistle, 436.28
Bosch, Hieronymus, Last Judgement, central panel, 435.23-34
Bosch, Hieronymus, Last Judgement, right inner panel, 435.23-34
Bosch, Hieronymus, Last Judgement, 56.24-29, 331.15-18, 426.15-16, 433.31-33, 434.28-29, 435.06-10, Aft. Pt 2, Ch. 10, Aft. Part 2, Ch.11
Bosch, Hieronymus, Ship of Fools, 331.15-18
Botany Bay, 63.07
Botticelli, Sandro, Birth of Venus, 4.16(b), 392.24
Bonjour, Tristesse, 371.15-16
Boucher, François, Girl Reclining (Marie-Louise O'Murphy), 43.03-06, 178.16
Boucher, François, ceiling painting at Fontainebleu Palace, 36.07-08, 178.16, 288.12-13
Bourdeilles, Pierre de, Seigneur de Brantôme, 140.03
Bourgeois, Léon-Victor-Auguste, 341.12-13
Bourget, Paul, 61.07-09, 300.02
bow tie, butterfly, 287.33-288.01
Bowerbird, male, Afternote, Part 1, Ch. 30
bowling ball or kegelkugel, 261.16-29, 440.20-441.17, 440.33-34
Box II with young Nabokovs, 14.03. 61.04-06
Brabazan, Sir Vere Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough, 330.18-19
Braille, Louis, 131.34
Brantôme in the Dordogne, 142.02-03
Brantôme, Seigneur de, (Pierre de Bourdeilles), 140.03
Brantôme Seigneur de, Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, 140.03
Braque, Georges, Violin and Candlestick, 17.12, 350.22-23
Braque, Georges, Man with a Guitar, 304.30-31
Bras d'Or, 3.10-11
Brassia (formerly Ada) aurantiaca, 323.20
Braun, Alexander, 102.26
breloque, 132.05
Brentano, Clemens, 56.18-20
Breton, Andre, 426.15-16
bridal crown, 39.24-25
Bride of Lammermoor The , by Sir Walter Scott, 240.21
Bridges, Robert, 145.18-19
Brig, 7.09(b)
British Empire, 19.27-29
Brockhaus Universal-Lecksickon, ca. 1928, 220.16-17
Brooke, Rupert, 181.18-182.01
Bronzino, Venus, Satyr and Cupid, 32.27-28, 146.11, 348.23-28, 413.13-14
Brougham, Lord Henry, 454.09
brougham carriage, single, 454.09
brougham, Hedag Electric,1905, 454.09
Brown argus (Aricia agestis), 425.30,
Brown, Capability, Northern Lake in Newton St.Loe College, 33.30-31
Brown, Robert, 105.33-34, 107.26 , Afternote Part 1, Ch. 17, 145.18-19, 166.09-12
Brown Hill or Brownhill College 21.33-34, 107.07-08, 111.13, 166.09-12, 230.09-10, 302.29-31
Browning, Robert, 128.01-02, 145.18-19
Brueghel, Pieter, The Fall of Icarus, 81.33-82.03, 347.01-02,
Brueghel, Pieter, Flowers in a Vase, 350.15
Brueghel, Pieter, The Nest Robber, 81.33-82.03, 347.01-02,
Brueghel, Pieter, Peasant Dance, 81.33-82.03, 401-26-27
Brueghel, Pieter, The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind, 81.33-82.03, 347.01-02,
Brueghel, Pieter, The Tower of Babel, 347.01-02,
Brueghel, Pieter, Village along a river, 350.15
Brueghel, Pieter, Wedding Dance in the Open Air, 81.33-82.03
Bruegel, Pieter, the younger, Peasant Wedding Dance, 401-26-27
Brunelleschi, Filippo, by Masaccio, 149.25
Brünnhilde, 172.02-04
Bryn Mawr, 21.33-34, 107.07-08, 111.13, 166.09-12, 230.09-10
Bryusov, Valery, 31.14-15
bubas (frambosia), 132.25
buboes, 132.25(b)
Buchan, John, Thirty-Nine Steps, 302.28
bucklers, 435.27
Budé book cover, 384.15
bulbul, brown-ered, 50.16(b)
bunting, reed-varied, 53.13, 92.31-33
burdock, common (Arctium lappa), 269.12
Bürger, Gottfried August, 146.26-33
burka, 183.26-28, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 30
Burton and Speke expeditions, 120.03-04
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 120.03-04, 131.02, 344.13-14
Butler, Samuel, Forenote Part 1, Ch. 3
buttercup, 36.06, 63.20
butterfly, Aglais urticae, (Small Tortoiseshell or Nettlefly), 436.34,
butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, 57.03-05
butterfly, Argynnis niobe fritillary, 57.13, 404.18
butterfly, Battus philenor, (Pipevine Swallowtail), 401.01-02
butterfly, Boloria euphrosyne, pearl-bordered fritillary, 404.31
butterfly, Boloria selene fritillary, 57.14-26
butterfly, Boloria selene (silver-bordered fritillary,underside, 404.31
butterfly, Celastrina argiolus, Holly blue, 71.22-23
butterfly, Celastrina ladon, Echo azure, 71.23
butterfly Danaüs plexippuss, 158.11-15, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 25
butterfly, Eumaeus atala, 105.33-34, 164.24-27
butterfly, Iolana iolas, 128.26-33
butterfly Limenitis (Basilarchia) archippus, 158.11-15, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 25
butterfly, Maniola jurtina, Meadow brown, 436.30-32
butterfly Nymphalis antiopa, 158.11-15, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 25, 174.04-06
butterfly, Nymphalis polychloros, Large Tortoiseshell, 436.34
butterfly, Nymphalis polychloros, pupa, 56.16-57.02
butterfly, Nymphalis vaualbum, 55.24-29
butterfly Papillio polyxenes, 148.09
butterfly, Pieris rapae, 128.26-33
butterfly, Plebejus (Lycaeides) idas sublivens, female, 171.19-20
butterfly, Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor) , 404.01-02
butterfly, Polyommatus icarus, 178.11-12
butterfly Pseudophilotes abencerragus, 105.33-34, 342.31-33
butterfly, Speyeria fritillary, 57.14-26
butterfly, Speyeria diana, 404.01-02
butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, 158.11-15
butterfly Zegris eupheme, 105.33-34, 342.31-33
butterfly bow tie, 287.33-288.01
butterfly orchid (Oncidium luridum), 419.27-28
butterfly orchid, Psychopsis (Oncidium) papillio, 7.33, 8.22, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 16
butterfly wing, 132.31-32
Butts, Alfred Mosher , 222.12-223.03,
Lord Byron by Thomas Phillips, 1813, 402.11
Byron, Lord (George Gordon Byron), 71.28-73.32, 241.14-15
Byron, Lord, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 219.02, 449.01-02
Byron's Pool, 181.01

Cabbage white (Pieris rapae), 128.26-33
Caboto, Giovanni /Cabot, John, 383.01
cactus plants, 376.02-03
Caldecott, Randolph, The Babes in the Wood, illustration, 153.32-33, 163.19, 191.10
calèche, horse-drawn , 34.15; 78.26; 87.10-11, 153.06-08, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 25, 187.10, 189.02-03, 298.34, 398.16-17, 408.16-17
cairns birdwing (Troides euphorion), 173.03
calcium carbide lamp, 154.23
Caltha palustri (marsh marigold), 63.21-23
Calville apples, 251.24
Cam, River, 181.01
Camel Cigarettes, 419.26
Camus, Albert, 270.24-25
Camberwell Beauty butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa), 158.11-15, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 25
cameo, 48.28-29
Canadian Mounties, 21.26
cannabis (hemp), 122.05
canoe, Rob Roy, 116.16
Capri, 152.29
Captain Grant's Children, by Jules Verne, 5.23-7.05, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 30, 220.18, 334.28-29
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, Bacchus, 140.15-22
Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da, Basket of Fruit, 140.15-22
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, The Conversion of St. Paul, 140.15-22
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisis da, The Cruxifixion of St. Peter, 140.15-22
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, portrait by Ottavio Leoni, 140.15-22
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, Self-portrait as Bacchus, 140.15-22
card figures, from Alice in Wonderland, by John Tenniel, 226.10-12
Carlo de’ Medici by Andrea Mantegna, 274.05
Carmen, portrait from story by Prosper Merimée, 56.29-30
Carmen, watercolour, Prosper Mérimée, 77.02-06
carnation, 239.09
Carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua), 371.04
Carob tree flowers, 371.04
Carolina pigeons (Mourning doves) by John James Audubon, 47.18-19
Carroll, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustration of card figures by John Tenniel, 226.10-12
Carroll, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustration of flamingo croquet by Sir John Tenniel, 53.25-28
Carrol, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustration of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, by John Tenniel, 222.16-17
caryatids, 81.27
Casanova, Giacomo, 49.10-12, 136.29, 196.10, 418.28-2
Cascadilla Gorge, 452.05,
Casino Mediceo di San Marco, 274.05
Casino de Paris, 350.26-27
Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming, cover, 147.12-13
caterpillar, Catocala sponsa, 55.04-07
caterpillar, Io moth (Lasiocampidae) , 250.23
caterpillar, Orgyia definita, 55.07-09
caterpillar, Puss moth, 55.18, 98.02
caterpillar, Shark moth, 55.02-03
Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, 451.03-04
Cather, Willa, 128.01-02
Catherine the Great, 233.32-33
Catocala sponsa caterpillar, 55.04-07
Catocala sponsa pupa, 56.16-57.02
Cattails, marsh plant (Typha latifolia), 216.34a
Cattleya, Afternote Part 1, Ch 2,
Cattleya (cover of Ada) Afternote Part 1, Ch 16
Cattleya bicolor, 56.06-10
Cattleya Hawkmoth, hairy caterpillar, 449.14-15
Cattleya labiata 'Helena', 56.06-10, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 16
Catullus, Gaius Valerius, 66.03-04
Caucasus mountains, 171.03-172.04
Cavalcanti, Guido , 23.26-28
caviar, beluga, 79.30
cedar, Weeping Atlas (Cedrus libani atlantica), 204.17, 221.07
cedar, Weeping Blue Atlas (Cedrus Atlantica 'Glauca Pendula'), 115.01-03
celandines, 37.13-14
Celastrina argiolus (Holly Blue butterfly), 71.22-23
Celastrina ladon (Echo azure butterfly), 71.232
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 299.10
'Cendrillon' illustration by Gustave Doré, from Charles Perrault's Les Contes des Fées, 49.04-06, 114.16-17, 242.26-08
centaur, 26.28
Cephalanthera austinae (Phantom orchid), 196.04
César Gabriel de Choiseul, duc de Praslin, 399.02-04,
Cézanne, Paul, Harlequin, 157.08
chaise longue, 197.02
Chaliapin, Fyodor, 412.15-17
chamois, 149.22-23
Channel Tunnel, 181.16-17
Chanterelle mushroom (Cantharelius cibarius), 212.20-21
charabanc, 78.20-79.03, 125.19
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon, House of Cards, 111.16-112.16
Charles I, 157.21-23
Charles de Gaulle, 1958, 329.17-18, 341.14, 457.05
Château de Combourg, Le, 138.01-139.04
Château d'Oex poster, 7.09
Château d'Oex, photo from 1920s, 7.09, 26.01, 347.18
Château d'Oex, location, 122.12-13
Château Latour, 242.33-34
Chateaubriand, François-Réné, 3.08, 50.06, 15.31, 106.11-26, 133.08, 138.01-139.04. Afternote Part 1, Ch..22, 198.26-29, 215.02-04, Afternote Part 1 Ch. 35, 241.09-10, 279.16-17, 342.31-33, 367.01, 435.20-21,
Chateaubriand, Atala, sketch by Gustave Doré, 89.15
Chatsworth House, 35.17-18
Chinchilla laniger, 413.31
Cheever, John, 68.21-69.20, 248.21-33
Chekhov, Anton, 163.12-15, 193.25-26, 219.09, 310.26-29
Chekhov, Anton, front cover of Three Sisters, 246.13
Chekhov, Anton, reading The Seagull to Moscow Art Theatre company, 233.11
Chervonetz, 1922, 309.25
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard, 32.30, 176.12-13
Chesterfield, 4th Earl of (Philip Dormer Stanhope), 33.04, 174.34-175.01
Chetwood, residence of J.J. Astor, Newport, 349.32-33
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Byron, 219.02, 449.01-02
Chiloglottis reflexa (orchid, with wasp on lip), 102.01
chimney breasts, 350.32b
Chinchilla laniger, 413.31
Chippendale armchair, 378.32
Chippendale statue, Otley, UK, 378.32
Christian, Vladimir, of Denmark by Justus Sustermans, 382.33-383.03
Chufut cave dwellings, 185.24, Afternote, Part 1, Ch. 30, 319.20-21
Christie, Anna (poster), 165.03-04, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 27
chromophotography, 408.26-28, 446.07, Afternote Part 2, Ch. 11
chrysanthemum, (Chrythsanthemum indicum), 194.01-06
Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough by Enoch Seeman, 267.30-31, 288.14-16
Churchill, Winston, 181.11, 259.26-28
cicada, 94.06
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 5.27
Cinderella, illustration by Charles Perrault, 191.10
Circassian woman, 139.16
Clarence House, London, 146.26-33
clepsydra, 14.05
Clockwork Orange, A, (production photo), 166.16
coco de mer, 202.06
Cocteau, Jean, 198.26-29
Colossus of Rhodes, 349.32-33
columbines, 37.13-14
Colutea arborescens (bladder senna), 124.24, 125.03, 194.0
Combourg, canton, 138.01-139.04
conifers, 142.18
convict cichlids, 239.15, 248.12, 399.05-06
convict cichlids (Amatitlania nigrofasciatus), 239.31,
Cook's landing at Botany Bay, 63.07
Common blue, (Polyommatus icarus), 178.08-11
Common gromwell (Lithospermum officinale), 342.33-34
Compton tortoiseshell (Nymphalis vaualbum), 55.24-29
Conrad Hilton outside his Amsterdam Hotel, 452.32
Conrad Hilton hotel in Chicago, 452.32
Conversion of St. Paul, The, by Michelangelo Merisis da Caravaggio, 140.15-22
Coppée, François, 64.19(b), 126.06, 127.24-128.01, 194.21-22, 246.12-14, 257.10, 300.03, 324.01-04, 396.09-10
coypu, South American aqatic rodent (Myocastor coypus), 391.19
Corday, Charlotte, 171.16-18
Cordula orchid, (Paphiopedilum purpuratum), 306.07-09
Corneille, Pierre, 169.19b
Cornel, in the Crimea, 319.15
Cornelian cherry tree (Cornus mascula), 185.25
Cornelian cherry berries (Cornus mascula), 185.25, Aft, Part 1, Ch. 30
Corregio, 256.14
Cossack on horseback, 183.24-26
Courbet,Gustave, Lake Geneva, 152.34-153.01
Court of the Lions, Alhambra, 342.31-33
cowslip (Primula veris), 300.04
Cranach, the Elder, Adam and Eve, 16.22, 393.15
Crane, Walter Beauty and the Beast, illustration , 190.14
Crane, Walter, Little Red Riding Hood, illustration, 191.10
cream puff, profiterole, 260.20-23
Creeley, Robert, 134.33-34
Creation, outer panels, Garden of Earthly Delights, Aft. Pt2, Ch 2
Crimea, 121.03, 181.13-14, Afternote Part 1, Ch.19, 231.25-27; 329.04-05
Crimean Khanate, 341.19
Crimean War, overview map, 1855, 316.08-11, 329.04-09
Cromwell, Oliver, 342.33-34
Cromwell, Thomas, 342.33-34
croquet players, 53.11-15
croquet with flamingos, illustration by Sir John Tenniel from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 53.25-28
crown of flowers, 89.02-03
crumpet, 89.04
crumpet, hot buttered, 302.29-31
cruxifixion, The Three Crosses by Peter Paul Rubens, 91.04-08
Cruxifixion, by Jacopo Bellini, 418.29-31
Cruxifixion of St. Peter The, by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 140.15-22
Cumberland, England, 454.09
cuneiform, 26th century BC, 399.16-17
cupola, 91.04-08
Cypress tree (Cupressus sempervirens), 145.19-21
Cyrano de Bergerac, 399.11
Cyrillic alphabet - Old Church Slavonic version (Cyrillitsa), 84.20-22
Cyrillic script - old Russian orthography, 84.20-22
Cyrillic script - modern Russian orthography introduced in 1918, 84.20-22

da Vinci, Leonardo, The Last Supper, 274.05
dackel, Box II with young Nabokovs, 14.03
dachshund, 456.10-12
Dada newspaper, 178.08
Dada official letterhead, 178.08
Daguerre, Louis, 399.16-17
daguerreotype, by Louis Daguerre, 399.16-17
Dahl, Michael, Alexander Pope, 274.27-28
Dahl, Vladimir by Vasily Perov, 225.28-31
Dahl's Russian dictionary, title page, 225.25
Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary, example, 225.28-31
Dahlia (sherffii), 225.29
Dahlia, Victoria (hortensis), 225.29
daisy chain, 89.02-03
Dali, Salvadore, 426.15-16
Danae by Titian, 418.29-31
D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 152.32-33
Daphnis, with satyr (Pan) and panpipes, 110.24-25
Darwin, Charles, 91.26-27, 115.32-34, 133.23-26, 306.07-09
Darwin, Erasmus, 115.32-34,
Datura (Datura stramonium) 3.09
David, Jacques-Louis, Death of Marat, 171.16-18
Davos, Fridericianum Sanitorium, 347.18-348.01
Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), 270.21
Death’s-head Hawkmoth larvae (Acherontia atropos), 56.06-10; 141.13-14; 411.27-28
Debussy, Claude, 430.12-13
Defense, The, cover, 72.23-2
Dégas, Edgar, The False Start, 278.23-24
de Gaulle, Charles, 329.17-18, 341.14, 457.05
de Gaulle, Philippe, 457.05
Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Le), 29.07
Demon and angel with Tamara's soul. Vrubel's illustration to Lermontov's poem 'Demon', 245.14
Dervish drums, 183.16
Descartes, René, by Frans Hals, 142.05-05, 153.24-25
desman, Russian, (Desmana moschata), 368.13-14, 413.31
Devi, 90.31-34
Diablerets, Les, 26.01
Diaghilev, Sergey, 199.15-16, 381.24-25
Diana and Callisto, by Palma Vecchio, 141.17-18
Diemen, Anton van , 377.20-27
digger, peat-bog, 49.15-16
dinosaur footprint (Gigandipus), 171.15
Divan Japonais, le, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, (picture hat), Afternote Part 1, Ch 2, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 5, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 14, 103.21-104.02, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 17, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 19, 169.24-27, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 27, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 36, 230.03, 231.16
La Dolce Vita, La (poster), 169.15
Don Giovanni, 147.17
Donne, John, 106.28-30
Doré, Gustave, illustration for Chateaubriand's Atala, 89.15
Doré, Gustave, illustration for Charles Perrault's Les Contes des Fées, 'Cendrillon', 49.04-06, 114-16-17, 242.06-08
Doré, Gustave, illustration for Tennyson's Idylls of the King, 146.26-33
Dore, river, 5.07, 138.01-139.04
Dorotea, by Sebastiano del Piombo, 140.17-24
Dossi, Dosso, Nymph and Satyr, 141.18-19
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 38.19-20, 193.25-26, 240.21-22, 310.26-29, 424.01-02
Double Barrel by Nicholas Freeling, 4.16b, 21.19-21, 222.16-17; 347.01-02
Doumer, Paul, 341.13-14
Doumergue, Gaston, 341.13-14
Dowson, Ernest, portrait photo, 276.32-277.03
doves, Mourning (Carolina pigeons), by John James Audubon, 47.18-19
dragonfly (Libellula cyanea), 20.07, 390.33-34
drupe, 94.15
Dubrovnik, 394.15-16
Duccio, The Last Supper and The Washing of Feet, 274.05
Duchamp, Marcel, sculpture, 'The Fountain', 178.08, 350.20a
Duke of Devonshire's Flying Childers by James Seymour, 78.23-24
Duncan, Robert, 134.33-34
Dudley, John, Earl of Northumberland, 186.12-13
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester, 186.12-13
Dudok, Willem, 350.27-28
Dudok, Willem, Hoogovens Steal Building, 350.23-25
Dujardin Édouard, 300.02
Dumas, Alexander , 149.15, 269.34-270.03, 365.16-17
Dumas, Général Alexandre, 149.15
dung beetles, 100.24
Durga, 90.31-34
Duse, Eleonora, 164.01
Duveen, Joseph, 4.16 , 350.03-04
Dying Gaul or Dying Gladiator, 275.12

Eagle, Bald, 133.2
Ea haere ia oe (Where Are You Going?), Paul Gauguin, 111.16-112.16
Eberth, Karl, 449.11
Echo azure butterfly (Celastrina ladon), 71.23
Echo Lake, California, 71.22-23
edelweiss, 7.30
Edward VII, King of England, 329.15-16, 352.27-353.02
Edward VIII, King of England, 341.21
eglantine (Rosa eglantera), 105.07
8 1/2, (poster), 169.15
Einstein, Albert, 18.12-13, 317.28-29, 339.04-09
elevated railway, 17.01, 329.14
Eliot, George, 35.17-18
Eliot, T.S., 5.19-20, 90.24-26, 403.04
Elizabeth II, Queen, 182.09
Elizabeth Arden, 420.32-33
Ellenborough,1st Earl of, 449.04-05,
Ellis, Havelock, 131.17
Ellison, Ralph, 203.21-23
elm, American, 53.34-54.01, 92.31-33
Elsinore (Kronborg castle), 343.29-30
Emmenthaler cheese, 191.28
Empire style armchair, 43.1
Emperor Pavel I of Russia, 43.16-19
Empress Josephine of France, 38.11, 239.33-34, 396.02
Enfants Terribles, Les, 198.26-29
epiglottis, 403.19-20
Erikson, Leif, 415.31
Ernst, Max, 426.15-16
Estotiland, 3.18
escritoire, 372.29
Eton College, Afternote Part 1, Ch.4, 347.16
Etruscan Dressing-Room, Osterley, by Robert Adams, 349.33-34
Eucalyptus microcorys, 63.07
Eugene Onegin, first edition, 4.22, 219.02, 366.11-13, 430.12
Eugene Onegin, Aleksandr Pushkin (sketch of Tatiana by Alexander Notbek), 11.02-12
Euler, Leonhard, 171.06-07
Euraphrates and Tigres, 78.05
Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber), 391.14-27
European bogberry (Oxycoccus palustris), 72.31
Eve and Adam,, Parmagianino, 12.30-13.05, 60.12-14, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 15
Excideuil chateau, 347.18

Famusov, 257.19-20
Fainzilberg, Ilya Il'f, 21.13-14
Fairbanks, Douglas, 14.34-15.01
Fall of Icarus, Pieter Brueghel the Elder , 81.33-82.03. 347.01-02,
Fallen Demon, Mikhail Vrubel 1902, 338.08-09
'false acacia', Black locust, (Robinia pseudoacacia), 268.27-29, 277.01-02
False Start (The) by Edgar Dégas, 278.23-24
Fanny Hill illustration by Édouard-Henri Avri, 220.21-22
Faraday, Michael, 17.09
farkleberries (Vaccinium arboreum), 299.02
Farman I aeroplane, 36.03-08
Farnese Palazzo, 149.25
Faulkner, William, 114.02-03, 371.15a
Fender's blue butterfly (Icaricia icarioides), (now Aricia icarioides), 94.07
Fernández, Juan "el Labrador", Four bunches of grapes, 46.05
Fet, Afanasy (Shenshin), 411.34-412.06,
Fifth Ave, New York, 103.29-30
Figaro, The Marriage of, 157.08
fir cone, 50.11-18
firecrest, common (Regulus ignicapillus), 71.20(b)
firefly, Photinus pryalis, 53.06
firefly, Photuris pennsylvanicus, 72.03-09, 173.20-30
Fitzgerald, Edward's version of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, 409.13-13
Fitzgerald, Scott, 224.05-06, 420.01-02
flag of the Russian Empire (1914-17), 231.26
flamingo, 116.11-12
flamingo croquet, illustration by Sir John Tenniel from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 53.25-28
Flaubert's L'Education Sentimentale, 60.07, 307.23, 449.01-02
Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica), 156.02b
fleur-de-lys, 48.29
Flora Lapponica, Linnaeus, 43.04
Flora and Zephyr, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 410.16-18,
Florian, Jean-Pierre, de, 342.31-33
flue pipe diagram, 110.24-25
Fly orchid, with wasp on lip, 102.01
football, American, 69.08-09
forced labour, White Sea-Baltic canal, 259.18-19
Forêt de Finges, 128.31
Forever Amber, 371.15-16
Forget-me-nots (Myosotis (palustris scorpiodides), 142.20-143.02
Fort Severn, 3.16-17
Four bunches of grapes, Fernández, Juan" el Labrador", 46.05
Fra Angelico, The Last Supper, 274.05
frambosia, tropical (bubas), 132.25
François le bossu by Sophie de Ségur, illustration by Émile Bayard, 114.01-02
Freeling, Nicholas, Double Barrel, 4.16b, 21.19-21, 222.16-17
Freud, Ernst, Belvedere Court apartments, 350.26-27
Freud, Sigmund, 27.09-10, 322.07-08, 338.16-17, 340.04, 363.06-07, 444.21-29
Friedrich, Caspar David, 183.09-10
fritillary (Argynnis niobe) butterfly, 57.14-26
fritillary (Boloria freija), 148.09
fritillary (Boloria selene) butterfly, 57.14-26
fritillary (Speyeria) butterfly, 57.14-26
frog-faced footman, illustration by John Tenniel in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 195.15-16, 248.21-33
frambosia, tropical, 132.25
Fur seal pups, 368.13-14

Gainsborough hat, 38.23
Gainsborough, Thomas, portrait of Sarah Siddons, 269.32
Galland, Antoine, 131.02
Gannibal, Abram Petrovich, 149.15
Gansevoort, General Peter, 3.15-21
Garbo, Greta, 165.03-04
Garbo, Greta, as Anna Christie (poster), 165.03-04, Aft. Part 1, Chapter 27
Garda, Lake, Italy; 178.18-179.02
Garda, Lake, Italy, map, 178.18-179.02
Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch, 5.10-11, Aft. Part 1, Ch 1, 60.15, Aft. Part 1, Ch 9, Aft. Part 1, Ch 11, Aft. Part 1, Ch 14, Aft. Part 1, Ch 15, Aft. Part 1, Ch 16, 103.13, Aft. Part 1, Ch 20, Forenote Part 1, Ch. 21, Aft Part 1, Ch. 21, Aft Part One, Chapter 31, Aft Part One, Chapter 32, Aft Part One, Chapter 38, Aft Part 2, Ch 2, Aft Part 2, Ch 3, 382.18, 436.28
Garden of Earthly Delights, left panel, by Hieronymus Bosch, Aft Part 1, Ch. 25, Aft Part 1, Ch. 36
Garden of Earthly Delights, centre panel, by Hieronymus Bosch, Aft. Part 1, Ch. 22, Aft. Part One, Ch 33, Aft. Part One, Ch. 34, Aft. Part 1, Ch. 36, 331.15-18, Aft. Part 2, Ch7.
Garden of Earthly Delights, right panel, by Hieronymus Bosch, Aft. Part 1, Ch. 22, Aft. Part 1, Ch. 36
Garden of Earthly Delights, outer panels, Creation, Aft. Pt 2, Ch 2
Garden of The Finzi-Continis,book cover , 274.09-10
gardens, suspended , 450.05-06
Gardone Riviera, on Lake Garda, Brescia, Italy, 152.31, 171.13-18, 178.18-179.02
Garrison, William Lloyd, 133.27
Gaspé, 136.13-14
Gauguin, Paul, Ea haere ia oe (Where Are You Going?), 111.16-112.16
Gauguin, Paul, Manao tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Watches Over Her), 111.16-112.16
Gauguin, Paul Otahi (Alone), 121.09
Gauguin, Paul, Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau, 111.16-112.16
Gauguin, Paul, Teha'amana Has Many Parents, or The Ancestors of Teha'amana, 111.16-112.16
Gaulle, Charles, de , 341.14
Gentileschi, Artemisia, Susanna and the Elders, 351.32-352.01
Geneva, Lake, by Gustave Courbet , 152.34-153.01
Geneva, Lake, 449.05-08,
gentian, Spring (Gentiana verna), 8.12, 331.11-12, 440.26-28
gentian, Koch's (Gentiana acaulis), 8.05, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 8, 331.11-12, 440.26-28
George, Prince of Wales, 350.33-351.01
George III, King of England, 350.33-351.01
George IV, King of England, 350.33-351.01
George V, King of England, 118.28-31
George V Hotel, Paris, 456.01-02
George VI, King of England, 341.03-06
Georgian tribesmen, 12.07b
Geranium nodosum, (Knotted Crane's Bill), 119.27, 125.27-30
German beaver, (nemetskiy bobr), 391.19-20
Ghirlandaio, Domenico, The Last Supper, 274.05
Gide, André, 270.24-25
Giant Skipper (Megathymus yuccae), 385.08
gig, Stanhope, 278.04
Gigandipus, footprint, 171.15
Gulf of Sidra or Sirte, 449.06
ginko (Ginkgo biloba), 7.27, 283.16-17, 299.22, 300.03
Girton College, 182.05-06
Gladstone, Sir Thomas, 403.06-07
Gladstone William Ewart, 403.06-07
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich c.1840 410.15
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 300.05, 309.03-04
Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 309.03-04
Gogol, Nikolai, 187.08, 240.21-22
Golden Ass, The, by Lucius Apuleius, Afternote Part 1 Ch. 10
Golden Globe Awards, 211-05
Golden Guineas, 1660-1685, 348.16
Golden Horde, map, 181.11
Gorguloff, Pavel, 341.13-14
grace hoops, 94.04-06
Graces, game of, 94.04-06
Grand Canyon, 171.04-05
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov, 264.24-29
Granta, 181.01
Granta River, 351.05, 353.03-11
Grantchester, 181.01, 351.05
Grauman's Chinese Theater, 171.15
Graham Greene, 383.32
Grasse, 1911, 393.31
Great argus (Argusianus argus), 425.30
Great crested grebe, 387.15
Great Tobago, British Virgin Islands, 458.02-03
Griboedov, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 232.34-233.04, 308.04-07
Grigoryev, Apollon, drawing by Bruni 1846, 410.15
Grimm, the brothers, 341.23-24
Grisaille, Odalisque - by Ingres, 389.09 
Gritti, Palace Hôtel, 224.05-06,
Grombchevski, Bronislav Ludvigovich, 343.01
Grotesques by Gherardi, 400.08-18a
Gherardi, Cristofano di Guido, 400.08-18a,
grouse, hazel hen, (Tetrastes bonasia), 46.19, 254.12-13, 256.29-30, 258.29-30
grouse (Bonasa umbellus), American ruffed, 256.29-30; 258.29-30
Grzshmailo, Grum , 56.20-22
Guarini, Giovanni Battista, 274.03-04
gueridon, 372.30
guitar, Russian, seven stringed, 299.04-05, 409.08a, 413.04
Gulf of Mexica, map by Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, 241.26.27
Gulliver in Brobdingnag, 103.10-11
Gumilyov Nikolay, 23.29-32
Gurilev, Alexander, 412.20-23

Iberian peninsula, 12.07
Icaricia icarioides, (now Aricia icarioides), 94.07
Ichneumon fly, 56.19
Idylls of the King, (by Tennyson) illustratation by Gustave Doré, 146.26-33
Ingres, Odalisque (in Grisaille) - painting by Ingres, 389.09 
Io moth caterpillar (Lasiocampidae), 250.23
Iolas blue (Iolana iolas), 128.26-33
Iron Curtain, map, 181.11
Iron Maiden, 439.20-440.01,
Irving, Washington (1783-1859), 222.16-17
izba, 35.02, 87.10-11

jacaranda tree in bloom, 75.11, 409.08-09
jacaranda tree tops, 295.29, 324.01-04
James, Henry, 31.01-08, 383.32
James, William, Afternote, Part 1, Ch. 30, 300.07, 416.16
Janizary, 396.06-07
jasmine, star (Trachelospermum jasminoides), 35.03, 123.08, 154.22-23, 299.22
Jerry can (German Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister 1943), 450.02-03
Jerusalem artichoke, 303.25
John Dory, 255.27
Johnson, Lady Bird, 38.09-11
Johnson, Lyndon B., 38.09-11
Jones, James, 330.01-03
Jonson, Ben, 172.01-04, 268.32-274.03
Josephine, Empress of France, 38.11, 239.33-34, 396.02
Joyce, James, 54.01-04, 82.02-83-05, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 26, 191.19, 202.22-23, 293.31, 300.02, 330.01-03, 342.28-29
Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum), 277.01-02,
Jung, Carl, 182.18-19, 344.19, 363.06-07
juniper berries, 243.28
Jurojin, god of longevity, by Morikuni Tachibana, 223.33

Kaibab plateau, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 15
Kaibab plateau, north rim, 29.10-11, 94.07
Kaibab or skybab squirrel (Sciurus aberti kaibabensis), 29.10-11, 94.07, 98.12, 399.05
Kali, 90.31-34
Kama Sutra, 344.13-14
Kamadeva, 409.13-14
Kaluga, 4.03, 128.12-13, 139.09, 230.01-11, 236.01
kangaroo, 112.30-31
Kant, Immanuel, 365.01
Karaite woman, Afternote, Part 1, Ch. 30
Karaite men in traditional dress, 319.20-21
karakul clothing, 183.29
Karamzin, Nikolay, 152.34-153.01; 421.08
Kachalov, Vasily Ivanovich, 233.10-11
Kataev, Evgeniy Petrovich, 21.13-14
Kaunda, Kenneth, 123.17-18
Kazbek, Mount, Caucasus, 171.10-13, 180.15-16
kegelkugel, or bowling ball, 261.16-29, 440.20-441.17, 440.33-34
Kennedy, Jackie, 38.09-11
Kenwood House, London, 349.30-31
Kertbeny, Károly Mária (1824-1882), aka Karl-Maria Kertbeny (Benkert), 131.17
kerosene lamp, 211.05-07, 226.08-15, 231.08-09
Kew, Hollow Walk at Richmond Gardens, by Capability Brown, 33.30-31
Khazar Khaganate, 650-850, 319-19-20
Kibo, Mt Kilimanjaro, 79.26
Kim Il-sung, 1950, 398.08
Kipling, Rudyard, 396.02
King Bird of Paradise, 410.08
King Edward VII, 1863, 329.15-16
King Edward VIII, 341.21
King George V, 118.28-31
King George VI, 341.03-06
King Valdemar Atterdag, 368.19
kinglet, Regulus satrapa, 71.20(c)
Kingsley, Charles, The Water Babies, illustration from , 91.26-27
Kingston City Hall, 365.01
Klu Klux Klan meeting, 241.23-26
Knipper, Olga, 426.34
Knotted Crane's Bill geranium (Geranium nodosum), 119.27, 125.27-30
koala, 105.06-07
Konstantin Konstantinovich, Romanov, Grand Duke, 264.24-29
Korean War, 1950-1953, overview map, 316.08-11
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 131.17
Kremlin, the, Moscow, 227.11-12
Kubrick, Stanley, 201.18-19
kulaks, 377.28
Kurland, 18.03
Kuriles, 1803b
Kuznetsova, Maria Nikolaevna, 158.05-06
Kitezh, 5.09
Kravchenko, Victor, 181.11-17
Kronborg castle, (Elsinore), 343.29-30

Ladoga, 156.03
Ladoga, Lake, 4.04(a), 259.18-19
Ladora, 449.02-06
Lagomorpha, 433.18
Lisianky and Laysan Islands, 433.14-15,
Lady Amherst's pheasant, 37.28-29, Afternote Part 1 Ch. 5, 253.09-11
Lady Chatterley's Lover, 220.21-22
Lady fern (Athyrium filix-foemina), 331.11-12
Lady's slipper orchid, (Cypripedium reginae), 193.13-16
Lady's slipper orchid (Paphiopedilum henryanum), 287.14, 289.03-06
Lallemand, Philippe, portrait of Charles Perrault, detail from, 282.01-02
Lamb, Charles, 367.14
Lamb, Mary, 367.14
Lamprey, with his owner Sir William Morgan, at Newmarket, by John Wootton, 278.23-24
landau, 79.11, 84.28-86.14
Lane, Edward William, 131.02
landaulet, 150.16b
larches, 45.22, 129.03-14, 142.18, 231.06
larches in winter, 7.31-32
Larisch, Countess Marie, 261.16-22
Last Supper by Matteo Rosselli, 274.05
Last Supper and The Washing of Feet by Duccio, 274.05
Last Supper by Fra Angelico, 274.05
Last Supper by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 274.05
Last Supper by Pietro Perugino, 274.05
Last Supper by Jacopo Tintoretto, 274.05
Last Supper by Peter Paul Rubens, 274.05
Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, 274.05
Last Judgement, Hieronymus Bosch, 56.24-29, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 11, 331.15-18, 426.15-16
Laurier, Henri Charles Wilfrid, 261.26-27
Law, Edward, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, 449.04-05,
Lawrence, D.H., 220.21-22
Lawrence, Thomas portrai of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 267.30-31
Le Bon,Gustave, 456.05-06
L-disaster, 17.01, 329.14
Leicester Earl of, 186.12-13
Leigh, Augusta (née Byron), 224.33-34
Lemons,Oranges, Cup and Flower, Francisco de Zurbarán, 46.08-09
Leon, Juan Ponce de, map, 241.26-27
Leone, Sergio, 424.01-02
Lepontine Alps, 168.28
Leporello, from Don Giovanni, 157.08
leprosy, 132.26-30
Lermontov, Mikhail, portrait, 4.22, 171.04-05, 172.11-177.09, 180.15-22, 241.03-04, 310.26-29, 351.06
Lermontov, Mikhail's painting of Dagestan, 171.03-172.04
Lermontov, Mikhail, painting Demon and angel with Tamara's soul by Vrubel, 245.14
Lesbos (Mytilene), 165.02
Lewis, C.S. 340.04
Lewis, Wyndham, 191.9, 230.04
Libellula cyanea, dragonfly, 20.07 390.33-34
Liberace, 306.10
Lido, Paris, 350.26-27
Lifar Serge, 381.24-25,
Liffey river, near Kilbride, Co. Wicklow, 219.25-26
Liriodendron chinense tulip tree flowers, 68.11
Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip tree, 230.04, 283.01
Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip trees, 53.01-03, 72.17-18, 115.01-03, 397.11
Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip tree flower, 68.11, 400.24
Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis), 259.09-14
Lincoln, Abraham, 18.12-13, 38.09-11
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 38.09-11
Lincoln Park, 253.09
linden tree, 51.15-19
Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), 256.31
Linnaeus, Carolus von, 43.04
Linnaeus, Flora Lapponica, 43.04
Lithospermum officinale (Common gromwell), 342.33-34
Little Miss Muffet, illustration by Arthur Rackham, 47.06-08
Little Red Riding Hood, illustration by Walter Crane, 191.10
Littré, Emile, 102.03, 139.25
loafers, 294.10
Loddiges, George, 419.24-25
Loddiges, Joachim Conrad, 419.24-25
Loèche, 128.31
Logogriph to Vera, from Nabokov, 222.10
Lolita, Jackson Country, 16.07
Lolita film poster, 203.25-26
Lorelei illustration, 56.18-20
lotus, East Indian, Nelumbo nucifera, 90.31-34
lotus, Tiger, Nymphaea lotus, 90.31-34
Louis XVI, 157.21-23, 341.09-11
louis d'or, 64.32-65.02
Loustalot, 184.18-20
Loustalot, fencing and boxing master, 81.23-24, 172.04-05
Louÿs, Pierre, 165.02, 194.27-28
Lovelace, Ada (née Byron), 224.33-34
Lowell, Amy, 456.14-18
Lowell, Robert, 3.04, 127.32-33, 456.14-18
Lucky Luke, 33.01
Luddites, 17.07-09
Luek, 128.31
Luga train station, 156.04-05
Lugano, city and location, 72.06-07, 202.10
Luger pistol, 307.03
Lumière, Auguste and Louis, 43.09, 399.18
Lutetia 17th C plan of Paris, 173.18-20
Lutetia, Hôtel, 173.18-20
Lutry, seen from Lake Léman, 351.04-05
Lycaeides argyrognomon, 339.29
Lycaeides melissa, 339.29
Lycaeides (Plebejus) idas sublivens, female, 171.19-20
lynx, 197.08-09
Lysenko, Trofim, 134.02-05

macchie, near the coast in Agriates, Corsica, 273.18, Afternote Part Two, Ch.11
Macroglossum stellatarum, 56.06-10
Mad Hatter's tea party, illustration by John Tenniel, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 222.16-17
Mademoiselle Miauton/'Mademoiselle O,' with VN and Sergey, 77.17-19
Madison Avenue, NY, 243.30
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 164.28-165.02
Magic Carpet by Victor Vasnetsov, 1880, 44.23-31
magnolias, 258.14
Magritte, 426.15-16
Maharao Khengarji III, 356.17-18
maidenhair fern (Adiantum bellum), 299.33-34
Mailer, Norman, 261.16-29, 406.09-10, 424.01-02, 439.20-440.01, 440.24-25
Malheurs de Sophie, Les, Sophie de Ségur, 55.30-31, 80.13, 114.01-02
Malraux, André, 377.23-27
Man With a Guitar, Georges Braque, 304.30-31
Manao tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Watches Over Her), Paul Gauguin, 111.16-112.16
Maniola jurtina in right panel of Garden of Earthly Delights, 436.30-32
mandala, Vajravali Series, 344.19
Mandelshtam, Osip, 3.04
Manet, Édouard, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 29.07
Manhattan Island, 222.16-17
Manhattan Life Building, 5.21-22
Manitoba, 21.25-26
Man Ray, 426.15-16
Mann, Thomas, 371.30-31, 403.05-07
Manor house, Chatsworth, 35.17-18
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, sketches of Sotherton Court by VN, Forenote Part One, Ch. 6
Mantegna, Andrea, portrai of Carlo de’ Medici, 274.05
mantilla, 413.31
Marat, General Joachim, 171.16-18
Marat, Jean Paul, 171.16-18
Marat, death of, by David, 171.16-18
marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna), 420.25-27
marguerite, 89.03(b)
Marie de France, 157.18-34
Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Girl Reclining, by François Boucher, 43.03-06, 178.16
Marlboro cigarettes, 288.14-16
Marlborough, Duke of, 288.14-16
Marco Polo, 342.16-18
marsh herb (Acorus calamus), 216.34b
marsh marigold, (Caltha palustri), 63.21-23, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 20, 142.20-143.02, Afternote, Part One, Ch. 30, Afternote Part One, Ch. 35, 270.27-29, 300.04
marsh plant (Typha latifolia), 216.34a
marshmallow plant, common, 11.30-31
Marvell, Andrew, 65.08, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 26, 345.04-05
Mary Magdalene, Penitant, by Titian, 204.28-30
Marx, Karl, 365.16-17
Marx Aveling, Eleanor, 365.16-17
Masaccio, fresco showing Filippo Brunelleschi, 149.25
Masaccio fresco, Expulsion from Paradise, 97.18
mask, jewelled, 322.15-18
Masson, André, 426.15-16
mastaba, 91.04-08
Matheson, Richard, 340.13-19
Maugham, W. Somerset, 85.24
Maupassant, Guy de, 53.30-32, 63.14, 190.04-05, 197.01
Maximillian of Prittwitz and Gaffron, 57.05-06,
Mayne Reid, Captain , 28.21-22, 171.06-07b, 365.01
Meadow rbown butterfly (Maniola jurtina, female), 436.30-32
Melville, Jean-Paul, 198.26-29
Mercedes Benz W07, 257.03
mercury (use in treatment of syphilis), 16.25, 132.11
Medlar flower and fruit (Mespilus germanica), 319.15, 344.06-07
Memling, Hans, Portrait of a Man with a Pink, 378.23a
Merezhovski, Dmitri, 340.19-21
Mérimée, Prosper, portrait of character Carmen, 56.29-30
Mérimée, Prosper, watercolour of Carmen, 77.01-06
Mesopotamia, 91.22-23
Millais, John Everett, The Blind Girl, 131.34
Millais, John Everett, Ophelia, 64.27-30, Afternote Part One, Chapter 32
Miller, Henry, 136.30, 261.16-29, 286.01, 371.15, 440.33-34
Mimosa pudica, 308.20-21
mint, European (Satureia hortensis), 71.21
Miramas (Bouches Rouges-du-Rhône), 451.19-20
mirror orchid (Ophrys speculum), 99.25-26
Mississippi, map, 241.22-23
Mississippi River, 21.25
Mocuba district, Mozambique, 329.15
Moët, Jean Remi, 339.17
Molière, pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 117.28-3, 169.19b
Monarch butterfly (Danaüs plexippuss), 158.11-15, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 25
Mondrian, untitled painting, 350.27-28
Mongols of the Golden Horde at the walls of Vladimir in 1238, 437.29-30,
Month in the Country, A, scene, Turgenev, 233.10-11
Monolopia lacneolata, 373.10
Mont Dore, Le, 386.18-19
Montreux, 153.15
Montreux Palace Hotel, 253.16
Moore, Thomas, 224.22-23
Moreau, Frédéric, 449.01-02
Moreau, Hégésippe, 239.19-20
Morpho helena, 222.01-119.07
Morpho peliedies, 222.01-119.07
Morris Mini-Minor, 147.12-13
Mother-of-Pearl, 78.30-31
Moses, 90.31-34
Moscow, Idaho, 429.11
Moscow Art Theatre, 233.10-11
Moscow Art Theatre, lobby, 233.10-11
Moscow's Boulevard Ring, 11.33
mosquito (Stegomyia aegypti (formerly Aedes aegypti), 73.12-14, 85.09-22
mosquito (Culex piipiens), 105.33-34,
moth caterpillar, Io (Lasiocampidae), 250.23
moth mullein, 55.03
Moulin Rouge, Paris, 350.26-27
Mount Wellington, 312.28
Mounties, Canadian, 21.26
Mourning doves, (Carolina pigeons) by John James Audubon, 47.18-19
mule, 457.04-05
Murat Hadji, 171.16-17
mushroom (Boletus edulis), 249.30-31
mushrooms, Chanterelle (Cantharelius cibarius), 212.20-21
mushrooms, pink, 203.02-03
Musset, Alfred de, 64.19, 224.05
Mussolini, Benito, 341.22
'Mutilation (The) of Uranus by Saturn' by Vasari and Gherardi, 400.08-18a
Muzhik sheepskin coat, 61.11-12
Mycalesis mineus pupa, 404.33
Mytilene, Lesbos, 165.02
myrhh (Commiphora abyssinica), 378.18
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, The, by Veronese, 418.29-31,

Nabokov, Ivan Alexandrovich, 3.15
Nabokov, Vladimir, aged 19, with his siblings and Box II, 61.04-06
Nabokov, Vladimir, in sailor suit, 78.24-25
Nabokov, Vladimir, in boxing gloves, 184.18-0,
Nabokov, Vladimir, holotype of Neonympha dorothea (now Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea), 94.07
Nabokov, Vladimir, "Playboy" bunny, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 15
Nabokov, Vladimir, sketch of petit-beurre, 48.27-28
Nabokov, Vladimir, sketches of Sotherton Court from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Forenote Part One, Ch. 6
Nabokov, Vladimir, with Mademoiselle Miauton and Sergey, 77.17-19
Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich, 4.22. 185.24
Nabokovs', the, scrabble set, 222.12-223.03
Nabonidus, 158.13-15, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 25
Nabucco, by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto cover, 158.13-15, 269.34-270.03
Nakhimov, Pavel, 458.02-03
Napoleon Bonaparte, 171.16-18, 341.11-12
Napoleon III, Louis, 341.11-12
Nash, John, portrait, 350.33-351.01
Nash, John, "cottage orné", 350.33-351.01
Nash, John, Blaise Hamlet cottages, 350.33-351.01
Navrotsky, Alexander, 412.18-19
Nebuchadnezzar, 158.13-15, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 25
Nectar River, 339.19-20
Nelumbo nucifera, East Indian lotus, 90.31-34
Neonympha dorothea (now Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea) discovered by VN, 94.07
Nest Robber, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 81.33-82.03, 347.01-02
Nestorov, Bartholomew Mikhail, Vision of Youth, 26.19
New Sheridan Hotel and Opera House, 322.11-12
New Yorker, cover 1E, 344.05
New Yorker, cover 30 May 1925, 445.29-30
Nice, 153.06-08
Nicot, Jean, 383.01-10
Nieuw Amsterdam, 222.16-17
Night Thoughts, Edward Young,, 183.09-10
nightingale, 50.16(b)
nigrofasciatu, Amatitlania (convict fish), 239.31
Nijinski, Vaslav, 199.15-16, 381.24-25, 430.12-13
Nord Express, 253.18
Northern Blue (Plebejus (Lycaeides) idas sublivens), female, 171.19-20
Northumberland, Earl of, 186.12-13
Notbek, sketch of Tatiana from Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, 11.02-1
Nuremberg, old castle, 439.20-440.01
Nuremberg Rally, 341.23-25
Nureyev, Rudolf, 181.11-17, 199.15-16
Nymph and Satyr, by Dosso Dossi, 141.18-19

oak, 51.15-19, 92.31-33, 454.22-23
Oak processionary caterpillar, (Thaumetopoea processionea), 449.14-19
oak tree, 51.15-19, 92.31-33, 192.08-09, 455.22-23
Odalisque, by Ingres, in Grisaille, 389.09
Ohrid, Lake, 399.32-34
Oka River, 65.11-13
okapi, 43.23
Okudzhava, Bulat, 412.24-26
Olcott, Chancey , 150.26
Olsen Charles, 134.33-34
One Thousand and One Nights, illustration by Sani ol-Molk, 131.02, 344.13-14
Onega, Lake, 399.32-34
O'Neill, Eugene, 165.03-04, 403.05-07, 429.15-22
onyx, 59.10, 249.24
Ophelia, by John Waterhouse, 63.26-27, 90.24-26
Ophelia, by John Everett Millais, 64.27-30, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 26, 199.26-29, Afternote Part One, Chapter 32, 217.03, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 35
orcas, 73.28-29
orchid, bog, 376.02-03
orchid, (Brassia (formerly Ada) aurantiaca), 324.01-04
orchid (Bulbophyllum psychoon), 288.25-27
orchid, butterfly (Oncidium luridum), 419.27-28
orchid, butterfly (Psychopsis (Oncidium) papillio), 7.33, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 16
orchid, Cattleya, Afternote Part 1, Ch 2, Afternote Part 1, Ch 16
orchid, (Cattleya labiata), 56.05-10, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 16
orchid, cordula (Paphiopedilum purpuratum), 306.07-09
orchid, dragon's mouth, (Arethusa bulbosa) , 317.17
orchid, (Eleorchis japonica), 317.17
orchid, fly (Chiloglottis reflexa), with wasp on lip, 102.01
orchid, lady's slipper, (Cypripedium reginae), 193.13-16, 227.21-22, 419.28
orchid, lady's slipper (Paphiopedilum henryanum), 287.14, 289.03-06
orchid (Masdevalia caesia), 288.25-27
orchid (Mediocalcar decoratum), 245.10-11
orchid, mirror (Ophrys speculum), 99.25-26, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 16
orchid, (Oncidium cruentoides), 289.05-06
orchid, purple-lipped twayblade (Liparis liliifolia), 217.01, 227.21-22
orchid, slipper (Cypripedium calceolus), 125.30
orchid, slipper (Paphiopedilum venustum), 125.30, 163.18
orchid, spider (Arachnis breviscapa), 338.16-17
orchid, snake-mouth (Pogonia ophioglossoides, Afternote.Part 1, Ch. 16, 227.27, 288.31-32; 317.17
orchid, (Vanda lissochiloides), 323.20
orchid, woodcook (Ophrys scolopax), 31.17-32.12, 101.16-17, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 16
Orczy, Baroness Emma, 6.22-23
organ pipes, 110.24-25
Orgyia definita caterpillar, 55.07-09
Orgyia pseudotsugata pupa, 56.16-57.02
Orient Express, 252.02, 345.27
Orwell George, 296.21-12, 316.08-11
Oryx (Oryx beisa beisa), 43.22
Osage Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix phaeogaster) , 406.13
Osborne, John, 107.25-26
Otahi (Alone), Paul Gauguin, 121.09
Ottoman Empire, 19.34-20.01
Outcault, Richard , Hogan's Alley comic stip, 124.28-30
Outcault, Richard, The Yellow Kid comics, 124.28-30
Outcault, Richard , Yellow Kid cartoon in New York Journal, 124.28-30
owl, Boreal (Aegolius funereus), 148.09
Oxycoccus palustris (European bogberry), 72.31
oystering, 68.19


Painted Desert in Arizona, 424.03-04
Palatka, Putnam county, Florida, 345.18
Palazzo Farnese, 149.25
Palermo, Sicily, 351.06
Panina, Varvara, 410.13,
Pankejeff, Sergei, 183.19-20
panpipes, 390.25
panpipes, with styre (Pan) and Daphnis, 110.24-25
pansy (Viola tricolor), 304.32-33
pantalets, 95.14, 378.23
panther, 73.28
Panza, Sancho 157.08,
Papageno, from The Magic Flute, 157.08
Paphos, 368.04
Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 81.33-82.03
Paris, 17th C plan of, 173.18-20
Parkinson, Sydney, drawing of Banksia integrifolia, 63.05-06
Parmagianino, Adam and Eve, 12.30-13.05, 60.12-14, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 15
Parmagianino, preparatory sketch of Adam, 12.30-13.05, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 5, 322.19-323.02
Parnassius smintheus, (Rocky mountain parnassian), 310.16-19
Parnassius stubbenorfi bodemegeri, 85.27-30
Parnassius stubbenorfi citrinarius, 85.27-30
Purple Emperor butterfly (Apatura iris), 400.08-09
Parure, La, title page, and cover by Gil Blas, 63.14, 79.14-16, 83.07, 142.02-03, 194.19-20, 197.01, 270.18
Pascal, Blaise, 71.16
Pasternak, Boris, 53.22-24, 241.03-04
Pastore Fido, Il, by Giovanni Battista Guarini, 274.03-04
Patriarch Pimen I, 399.02-04
paulownia blossoms, 43.16-19, 373.10-11
paulownia leaves, 43.16-19, 68.11(b), 115.02
paulownia tree (Paulownia tomentosa), 43.16-19
Pavel I, Emperor of Russia, 43.16-19
peaches, autumn red (Prunus persica), 198.10-11
peacock, displaying, Afternote, Part One, Ch. 30
Peacock, Thomas Love, 145.33-34
Peacock butterfly (Inachis io), 400.08-18a
Peacock moth, (Saturnia pyri), 400.08-18
Peacock moth antennai, 400.08-18a
Peacock moth caterpillar (Saturnia pyri), 400.08-18
Pear Peacock moth paintings, from Palacio Vecchio, 400.08-18a
Peacock moths "in copula", 400.08-18a
Peale, Norman Vincent, 124.20-21
peanut bush, 11.30-31
Peasant Dance, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 81.33-82.03, 401.26-27
Peasant Wedding Dance, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, 401.26-27
peat-bog digger, 49.15-16
Pechenegs, 79.20
Pelargonium graveolens,(Rose Geranium), 119.27
Pelecystola nearctica, 141.14
pembroke table, 288.06-07
peony, 51.30, 77.06-07
Perfumed Garden, The, cover, 130.14, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 21, 348.08-16, 353.28-29, 375.23
Perkins, Carl, 306.10
Perm, 429.05
Peri, 19.21, 320.19
Périgord truffle (Tuber melanosporum), 251.18-19
Perrault, Charles, 'Cendrillon' from Les Contes des Fées, illustrated by Gustave Doré, 49.04-06, 114-16-17, 242.06-08
Perrault, Charles, illustration of Cinderella, 191.10
Pershing, General John J. ('Black Jack') , 24.01
Persian lilac, Syringa persica, 36.20
Perugino, Pietro, The Last Supper, 274.05
Perrault, Charles, detail from a portrait of, by Philippe Lallemand, 282.01-02
Pétain, Philippe, Marshal, 341.21-22
Peter-and-Paul Fortress, 3.15
Peter the Great, by Valentin Serov, 212.29
Peterson, Roger Tory, 258.29-30
petit-beurre, drawn by VN, 48.27-28
petit-beurre biscuit, 210.12
Pfynwald, the, 128.31
Phantom orchid, (Cephalanthera austinae), 196.04
pheasant, Lady Amherst's, 37.28-29, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 5
Philby, Kim, 396.02
phoenix, 26.28
Photinus pryalis firefly, 53.06
photogram, by Thomas Wedgewood, 399.16-17
photophone, 3.10-11, 83.34
Photuris pennsylvanicus firefly, 72.03-09, 173.29-30
Piave, Francesco Maria, - 1855 title page of libretto for Verdi's La Traviata, 269.34-270.03
picture hat (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Le Divan Japonais), Afternote Part 1, Ch. 5, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 14, 103.21-104.02, 307.16-22
Pierrot by Antoine Watteau, 282.01-02
pigeons, Carolina, (Mourning doves), by John James Audubon, 47.18-19
pilaster, 89.13
pillars on a plantation home, Alabama, 398.17-18
pine starwort (Ionactis linariifolia), 82.09-19, 401.13
Pineda, Alonso Alvarez de, 241.26.27
Pineda, Alonso Alvarex de, map of Gulf of Mexico, 241.26-27
pink mushrooms, 203.02-03, 228.26
piqué cloth, 124.27
Pisang tree and flower (Musa paradisiaca), 317.08-09, 333.02
Pitt, William the Younger , 453.05-06,
Pizarro, Francisco, 341.20
planchette, 225.32-34
Plebejus (Lycaeides) idas sublivens, female, 171.19-20,
Plume moth (Buckleria vanderwolfi), 141.14
Plumtree's Potted Meat, 81.10
Plunket, Oliver, 172.18
Plunket, William, 172.18
plus fours, 275.02
Poe, Edgar Allen, 4.24, 160.02
Pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides), Afternote Part 1, Ch. 16, 227.27, 288.31-32, 297.26
Poiré, Emmanuel, 393.15
Ponsonby, Baron, 330.18-19
Ponsonby, Sir Vere Brabazan, ninth Earl of Bessborough, 330.18-19
Pope, Alexander, by Michael Dahl, 274.27-28
Poupart's (or the inguinal) ligament, 135.20-33
polecat, European (Mustela putorius), 403.03, 420.24
polecat, marbled (Vormela peregusna), 420.25-27
Polo, Marco, 342.16-18
Polyphemus, 126.17-18
Popper, Sir Karl, 373.17-33
poppies, field of, 128.24, 299.02
poppy, 77.06-07
Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste, known as Molière, 117.28-31, 169.19b
Porter, Cole, 306.13
Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau, by Paul Gauguin, 111.16-112.16
Portrait of a Man with a Pink, by Hans Memling, 378.23a
Portrait of a Woman with a Pink Carnation, by Rembrandt, 378.23a
poslednee tango, 185.17-22,
Pound, Ezra, 349.23-29
Prairie violet (Viola pedatifida), 57.17-18
Primavera stabiae, Afternote Part 1, Ch.1
primrose (Primula veris), 63.23-24
Prince and the Pauper (The) by Mark Twain, cover of first edition, 281.32-34
Princes Margaret, 146.26-33
privet (Ligustrum vulgare), 208.33
profiterole, cream puff, 260.20-23
Proust, Marcel, 9.18-29, 142.05-05, 456.27-28
Pseudophilotes abencerragus, 105.33-34, 342.31-33
psoriasis, 132.31-32
pterion, 445.11-12
Pulkovo, 239.12
puma, 73.28
pupa, Catocala sponsa, 56.16-57.02
pupa, Mycalesis mineus, 404.33
pupa, Nymphalis polychloros, 56.16-57.02
pupa, Orgyia pseudotsugata, 56.16-57.02
Purple-lipped twayblade orchid, (Liparis liliifolia), 217.01
Pushkin, Alexander, 3.01-04, 175.30-31, 232.34-233.04, 310.26-29
Pushkin, Alexander, Eugene Onegin, first book edition 1833, 219.02, 366.11-13
Pushkin, Alexander, illus. of Tatiania (EO). by Notbek, 11.02-12
Pushkin, Alexander, The Stone Guest by Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin, 111.31-34
Puss moth caterpillar, 55.18, 98.02, Afternote Part 1 Ch. 8, Afternote Part 1 Ch. 9

Queen Elizabeth II, 182.09
Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2), 342.23-25
Queen Victoria, 1887, 329.15-16, 352.27-353.02
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 83.07
Quelques Fleurs, 26.12
Queneau, Raymond, 242.18
quill pen, 11.06-07
Quisiana Restaurant, 304.06,

Rabelais, François, 18.23-24, 136.28
racemosa (Padus racemosa), 299.04-05, 324.01-04, 409.09, 454.22-26
Racine, Jean-Baptist, 169.19b, 231.30-31
Rachmaninof, Sergei, 197.13-14
Rackham, Arthur, illustration of Little Miss Muffet, 47.06-08
Rackman, Arthur, illustrations for Rhinegold and the Valkyries, 172.04
radio, box crystal, 81.12-14
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel, 306.07-09
Ragusa Ibla, Sicily, 394.15-16
railway, elevated, 17.01
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 363.25-26
Rameses III, statues at Kamak, 117.06-07
Ramsey, Frank, 410.17-18
razorback hog, 191.27
Red Admiral butterly (Vaness atalanta), 158.11-15, 400.08-18a
red bolete, Boletus auratiacus, 119.25, 405.25-26
Red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata), 401.06
redwood, giant (Sequoiadendron giganteum), 81.20-21
Regulus satrapa, 'Sitka' kinglet, 71.20(c)
Rembrand van Rijn, Portrait of a Woman with a Pink Carnation, 378.23a
Rembrandt van Rijn, Susanna and the Elders, 141.22-25
Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, 143.33-144.01
Repin, Ilja Jefimowitsch, The Stone Guest (Pushkin), 111.31-34
Repin, Ilya, portrait of Rimsky Korsakov, 5.09
Repnin Nikolai Vasilyevich, 128.09-10
reversed corolla, 259.32
Rhodes, Cecil, 341.06-07
Richard I the Lionheart, 259.26-28
Richardson, Dorothy, 300.07
Richardson, Samuel, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 26
Richmond Gardens, Kew, Hollow Walk by Capability Brown, 33.30-31
Riefenstahl, Leni, 341.23-25
Rimbaud, Arthur, 64.15-65.02, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 23, 161.24-26, 164.28-165.02, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 26, 217.28-218.04, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 35, 331.15-18
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreyevich, by Ilya Repin, 5.09
Riou, Édouard, Afternote, Part 1, Ch. 30, 220.18
Ripley, Robert, 317.28-29
Ritz Hotel, Paris, 224.05-06,
Ritz, César , 224.05-06,
Rob Roy canoe, 116.16
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 344.08-10, 382.18
Robin Hood, 128.13-14
Rockies, mountain range, 171.03-172.04
Rodker, John, 230.04
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, 257.03
Rokeby Venus, The, by Diego Velásquez, 4.16(b)
Roman Vergil eclogues, 72.15
Romanov, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, 264.24-29
Rorschach ink blot, 8.07-09
Rosa eglantera, eglantine, 105.07
Rose Geranium (Pelargonium graveolens), 119.27
Rosselli, Matteo, The Last Supper, 274.05
Rostand, Edmond, 29.20-21
Rostov Oblast, Russia, 339.23-24
Rostov on the Don, map, 232.27
Rotterdam, de Bijenkorf, 350.27-28
Rubaiyat (The) of Omar Khayyám, 409.13-13
Rubens, Peter Paul, The Last Supper, 274.05
Rubens, Peter Paul, The Three Crosses, 91.04-08
Rue de Saïgon, Paris, 435.05-06
Rubinstein, Anton, 4.22
Rugby School, 1850s, 358.15-17
runabout, 35.04, 79.03, 115.26, 156.19, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 25, 187.10, 189.02-03, 257.14-18
Russell, Bertrand, 349.23-29
Russian seven-stringed guitar, 299.04-05, 409.08a, 413.04
Russian peasant dress, 21.26
Rutherford, Dame Margaret, 143.33

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, 136.29(c)
Sacred and Profane Love by Titian, 141.17
Sade, Marquis de, 136.29(b)
saffian leather, 223.29, 305.32-33
Saibling (Salvelinus alpinus), 270.21
Saïgon, Rue de, Paris, 453.05-06
sailor suit (VN), 78.24-25
St Basil's, Moscow, 91.04-08
St George's emblem, 19.10
St Malô, 81.14
St. Mary Magdalen, by Titian. 141.17
St. Thérèse of Lisieux, 340.19-21
Salisbury, Richard, 300.06
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 107.19
samovar, 11.28-29, 89.11-12
samoyed, 104.04
Samuelson, Ralph, 116.15
San Fernando valley, 333.21
Sander lucioperca, 254.12
Sander vitreus,Walleye, 255.26-27
Santiago de Cuba, 433.09-10
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 270.24-25, 365.06-08
satyr (Pan) with panpipes and Daphnis, 110.24-25
Satyrium nepalense, 402.01-02
Scapegoat, The, William Holman Hunt, 378.11-12
scarab, 100.24
Scex/Sex Rouge, Mt., 26.01
Scheherazade, 1910 Set and costume design by Léon Bakst, 217.26-27, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 35
Schmaltz, Constantin Samuel Rafinesque-, 163.18
Scots Pine plantation, (Pinus silvestsris), 393.16-17
Scott, Sir Walter, 146.26-33, 240.21
Scott, Winfield, 10.09
Scud clouds, 360.33
sea otter, (Enhydra lutris), 391.14-27, 413.31
sea squirts (Rhopalaea crassa), 275.25
Seagull, The, Chekhov reading, 233.11, 426.34
Sealyham terrier , 211.01
Sebastapol, the seige of , 181.13-14
Ségur, Sophie de, 55.30-31
Ségur, Sophie de, François le bossu, illustration by Émile Bayard, 114.01-02
Ségur, Sophie de, illustration for Les Petites Filles modèles in Bibliothèque rose illustrée, 114.01-02
Ségur, Sophie de, Les malheurs de Sophie, 55.30-31, 80.13, 114.01-02
Seitz, Adalbert, 230.12-15
Self-portrait, by Osip Mandelshtam, 3.04
Self-portrait, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 103.27-28
Self-portrait as Bacchus by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 140.15-22
Self-portrait with Saskia, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 103.27-28
Seneca and Socrates, 355.29-30
Sidra or Sirte, 449.06
Sergius, Father, 429.03-05
Serov, Valentine, painting of Peter the Great, 212.09
serratus (greater), 313.01-02, 331.06-08
Serromyia femorata, 135.20-33, 416.08-09ß
Sèvres porcelain, 80.13
Sexual Life of our Time (The), by Iwan Bloch (cover), 131.17
Seymour, James, The Duke of Devonshire's Flying Childers, 78.23-24
Shakespeare, William, 73.05-06, 426.32
shagreen, 96.16
Shark moth caterpillar, 55.02-03
sharavary, 11.28-29
Shatt al Arab, river, 78.05, 91.26-27, 94.01
Shaw, Bernard, 427.07
Sheen, Fulton J., 124.20-21
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 145.33-34
Shetland pony, 43.29-31
Ship of Fools, by Hieronymous Bosch, 331.15-18, 433.23-34
Shiva, 90.31-34
Siddons, Sarah, by Thomas Gainsborough, 269.32
Sidney, Sir Philip, 156.02
sign of the cross, three fingers, 259.14-18
sign of the cross, two fingers, 259.14-18
Silk moth, Hubbard's (Sphingicampa hubbardi), 376.12-13
Sillitoe, Alan, 107.25-26
Sinclair, May, 300.07
'Sitka' kinglet, Regulus satrapa, 71.20(c)
Skinner's Balsam, 308.12
Skipper, Giant (Megathymus yuccae), 385.08
Skye terrier, 211.01
slime mould, 419.33
slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus) , 125.30
Small or Cabbage white (Pieris rapae), 128.26-33
Smith James Edward, 300.06
snake, Osage Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix phaeogaster) , 406.13
snakeroot, Virginia (Aristolochia serpentaria), 246.32-247.02
Snowdon, Lord, 330.19-20
Socrates and Seneca, 355.29-30
song thrush (Turdus philomelos), 47.16-18, 191.30
Sotherton Court from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, sketches by VN, Forenote Part 1, Ch. 6, 231.06-07
South American aqatic rodent (Myocastor coypus), 391.19
Southern Flannel moth (Megalophge opercularis), 433.04-05
Soviet Union, map, 341.16-18
Spanish Fly, (Lytta vesicatoria, Meloidae), 410.06
Spanish Inquisition, 132.26-30
sparver, 312.07
Speke and Burton expeditions, 120.03-04
Speke, John Hanning, 120.03-04
Spenser, Edmund, 105.07, 215.09-218.34, 418.26
Speyeria fritillary butterfly, 57.14-26
Sphingid (hawkmoth) larva, 56.06-10
Spider orchid (Arachnis breviscapa), 338.16-17,
spiraea, 324.04
spiraea beauverdiana, 390.10-11
spire, 91.04-08
spring gentian, Gentiana verna, 8.12
Stabiae, 8.31, Afternote Part 1, Ch.1, 113.21-22, 354.18
stag beetle, Afternote, Part One, Ch.30
Stalin, Joseph, 259.28-29, 341.15
stamnos, 50.12
Stanhope, Philip Dormer, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 174.34-175.01
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, portrait by Serov, 63.05-06
Stanislavski, Konstantin Sergeevich, 233.11-12, 333.12-13
Stanislavski as Vershinin in The Three Sisters, 235.14-18
Stanley, Henry Morton, 120.03-04
Stanley's discovery of Livingstone, illustration, 151.31-152-01
starlings, 380.20
Staunton Chess Set, 223.27
Steen, Jan, Self Portrait as a Lutenist, 103.27-28
John Steinbeck, 1963, 403.04
Stendhal, (Henri Beyle), 3.09
Still Life with Compote and Glass, Pablo Picasso, 304.30-31
Still-Life with Fruit and Shellfish, Jan van Kessel, 111.18-20
Stone Guest, The (Pushkin) illustration by Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin, Afternote Part 1 Chapter 2, 111.31-34, 443.28-31
strawberries, hautbois (Fragaria moschata (elatior)), 47.06-15
strawberries, garden (Fragaria ananassa), 47.06-15
Stuart, Gilbert, unfinished painting of George Washington, 81.20-21
sullow, 92.19
Summer savory or European mint (Satureia hortensis), 71.21
sunbird, Malachite (Nectarinia famosa), 333.30-31
Superb bird of paradise, male (Lophorina superba), 410.08
Superb bird of paradise, male, with Bower bird, 410.08
sur-royal antlers, 4.11
Susanna and the Elders by Artemisia Gentileschi, 351.32-352.01
Susanna and the Elders, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 141.22-25
suspended gardens, 450.05-06
Sustermans, Justus, portrait of Vladimir Christian of Denmark, 382.33-383.03
swallows, 87.15, 139.02
Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon), 393.33
Sweet-flags, marsh herb (Acorus calamus), 216.34b
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 367.14,
Syphilis before and after treatment, 16.25, 132.11
Syringa persica, Persian lilac, 36.20304.30-31, Still Life with Compote and Glass, Pablo Picasso

Tabor, Mt, 3.04
Taine, Hippolyte, 365.16-17
Talon trouser fastzener advertisement, 58.10-12
Tamerlane or Timur, 268.01-02
tango dancers, 185.14
tapir, 31.14-15
Tappertit, Simon, 304.32,
Tarentum, 82.09-10
Tartar intellectuals, 436.10-11
Tartary, 18.02-03, 230.07, 341.19, 345.17
Tasman, Abel by Jacob Cuyp, 377.28a
Tatiana from Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, 11.02-12
Tattersall's, 278.23
Taylor, Jeremy, by Pierre Lombard, 129.19-20
Teha'amana Has Many Parents, or The Ancestors of Teha'amana, Paul Gauguin, 111.16-112.16
telega, 115.31
telephone, early, 23.09
Telluride, Colorado, 171.19-20
Tenniel, Sir John drawing of a card figure, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 226.10-12
Tenniel, Sir John, drawing of flamingo croquet in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 53.25-28
Tenniel, Sir John, drawing of a frog-faced footman in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 195.15-16
Tenniel, Sir John, drawing of the Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 222.16-17
Tenniel, Sir John, self portrait, 195.15-16
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 23.22, 145.18-19
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, illustratation by Gustave Doré of Idylls of the King, 146.26-33
Terme Segestane, 351.05-06
terrier, Sealyham, 211.0
terrier, Skye, 211.0
Terry, Dame Ellen, 143.33
Thackeray, William Makepeace, steel engraving, 274.09-10
Thalamus, 361.02
thatched cottage, England, 331.23
Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan, 302.28
Thaumetopoea processionea, Oak processionary caterpillar, 449.14-19
Thompson, George, 133.27
Thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) 3.09
Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 143.33
Thousand and One Nights, The, illustration by Sani ol-Molk, 131.02
Three Crosses, Peter Paul Rubens, 91.04-08
Three Graces, fresco, 354.18
Three Sisters, front cover, 246.13, 333.10-12, 426.34
thrush, song, (Turdus philomelos), 47.16-18, 191.30
Tigres and Euraphrates, 78.05, 91.26-27, 94.01
Timur, or Tamerlane, 268.01-02
Tintoretto, Jacopo, The Last Supper, 274.05
Tiny Bluets (Houstonia pusilla), 128.24
Titian, Bacchanal of the Andrian, 141.17
Titian, Danae, 418.29-31
Titian, Penitant Mary Magdalene, 204.28-30
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, 141.17
Titian, St. Mary Magdalen. 141.17
Titian, Venus of Urbino, 141.17, 418.29-31
tokay, 154.31
Tolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovich, 412.14-15,
Tolstoy, Lev, 3.01-06, 197.03, 232.11-12, 348.06-08
Tolstoy, Lev, in peasant dress, 171.15, 240.18-19, 310.26-29, 319.29
Tolstoya, Sophia, 240.18-1
Tomb of Nakht, 449.02-03
Torbole, 152.32-33
Torchère, 382.24
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, Le Divan Japonais, (picture hat), Afternote Part 1, Ch. 5, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 14, 103.21-104.02, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 17, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 19, 169.24-27, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 27, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 36
The Tower of Babel, Brueghel, Pieter, 347.01-02
trap, horse-drawn, 34.05
Trapeze (film) poster, 51.22-23
Traviata (La),1855 title page of libretto, 269.34-270.03
Très riches heures du Duc de Berry (May), 436.28
tricorn hat, 35.28
Trieste, 341.19
Trinity College, Cambridge, Great Court, 173.24
Triolet, Elsa , 61.10
triple contrabass viol, 383.29-30
Trollope, Anthony, 35.17-18
Trotsky, Leon, 445.31-32,
Tsitsiker, 429.04, 437.19-20
tulip tree flowers (Liriodendron chinense), 68.11
tulip tree flowers (Liriodendron tulipifera), 68.11, 400.24
tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), 230.04, 283.01
tulip trees (Liriodendron tulipifera), 53.01-03, 72.17-18, 115.01-03, 397.11
Turgenev, Ivan, 3.03, 31.07, 43.33, 131.24-26, 240.21-22, 309.16-17, 310.26-29
Turgenev, Ivan, scene from A Month in the Country, 233.10-11
Tutankhamun's tomb scene, 353.17a
twenty-five ruble note, 12.0
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, 331.15-18
Tyomkin, Prince Grigoriy, 182.14-15
Typescript, detail from p.306 of Ada
Tyutchev, Fyodor by Stepan Aleksandrovsky, 268.09-10
Twain, Mark, photo portrait, 281.32-34
Twain, Mark, cover of first edition of The Prince and the Pauper, 281.32-34
Tzara, Tristan, 350.20a

Ukraine, map of region, 232.27
Uncle Sam poster, 12.12-13
Universalis Cosmographia, 1507, 43.26-27
Updike, John, 132.05-07
Ur, canton, 193.25-26
ursine howler, (Alouatta fusca clamitans), 64.12
US map, 21.18-19

Valentino, Rudoph, 358.12
Valkyries, Ride of the, 172.02-04
Vanda lissonchiloides, 323.20
Vansittart, Robert Gilbert 1st Baron Vansittart, 146.11
Vanvitelli, Luigi, 147.17
Varangian Guard Warrior, 436.10-11, 452.03
Vasari, Giorgio, 400.08-18a
Vasco da Gama, 181.03-185.15
Vasnetsov, Victor, Magic Carpet, 1880, 44.23-31
van Kessel, Jan, Still-Life with Fruit and Shellfish, 111.18-20
van Rijn, Rembrandt, Self-portrait, 103.27-28
van Rijn, Rembrant, Self-portrait with Saskia, 103.27-28
Vecchio, Palma, A Blonde Woman, 141.18-19
Vecchio, Palma, Diana and Callisto, 141.17-18
Velásquez, Diego, The Rokeby Venus, 4.16(b)
Vence, in the Maritime Alps, France, 348.07
Vengerov, Semyon Afanasievich, 259.20-22
Venus and Cupid on dolphins, 416.19-20
Venus Callipygean, 348.09-10
Venus of Urbino, by Titian, 141.17, 418.29-31
Venus, Satyr and Cupid, Bronzino, 32.27-28, 146.11, 348.23-28, 413.13-14
veranda, Russia, pre-1917, 324.01-04,
Verdi, Giuseppe,158.13-15, 269.34-270.03
Verdi, Giuseppe, Nabucco's libretto cover, 158.13-15, 269.34-270.03
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1855 title page of libretto for La Traviata, 269.34-270.03
Vere, Edward de, Earl of Oxford, 200.07
Verlaine, Paul, 291.14-15, 411.11-12
Verne, Jules, portrait, 5.23-7.05
Verne, Jules, 5.23-7.05, Afternote, Part One, Ch.30, 220.18
Verne, Jules, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, 331.15-15
Veronese, The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, 418.29-31
Vevey, 153.15
Viceroy butterfly (Limenitis (Basilarchia) archippus), 158.11-15, Afternote Part 1, Chapter 25
victoria, horse-drawn carriage, 37.1, 278.20
Victoria Island, 404.29
Victoria, Queen, 1887, 329.15-16
Viedma, Patagonia, 345.18-19
Villa Rothschild, 352.28
Vinland, 18.02-03, Afternote, Part One, Ch.30, 415.31
viol, triple contrabass, 383.29-30
Viola da Gamba, 181.03-186.15
Viola palustris, 404.31
Viola pedata, 306.07
Viola pedatifida, Prairie violet, 57.17-18
Viola tricolor, 304.32-33
violets (sp.Violaceae), 125.27-30,
Virgil, Roman Vergil eclogues, 72.15
Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia serpentaria), 246.32-247.02
Vision of Youth, by Bartholomew Mikhail Nestorov, 26.19
Vishnu, 90.31-34
Viskovatov, Pavel Aleksandrovitš, 4.22
Vrubel, Mikhail, Demon and angel with Tamara's soul, 245.14
Vrubel, Mikhai, Demon seated in a Garden, 180.15-22
Vrubel, Mikhail, self-portrait, 4.22
Vrubel, Mikhail, Six-winged Seraph, 180.15-22
Vrubel, Mikhail, The Fallen Demon, 338.08-09
Vyazemsky, Prince Pyotr, Andreyevich, 3.10

Wagner, Richard, 172.01-04
Waldseemüller, Martin, 43.26-27
Walleye (Sander vitreus), 255.26-27
Washington, George, unfinished painting by Gilbert Stuart, 81.20-21, 319.13
wasps on orchid lips (Chiloglottis reflexa and fly orchid), 102.01
Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley, illustration from , 91.26-27
Waterhouse, John, Ophelia, 63.26-27
waterskiing, 116.15
Watteau, Antoine, Pierrot, 282.01-02
We (English translation 1924), 338.09-11
Wedding Dance in the Open Air, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 81.33-82.03
Wedgewood, Thomas, photogram, 399.16-17
Weeping Atlas Cedar (Cedrus libani atlantica), 204.17, 211.01, 221.07
Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar (Cedrus Atlantica 'Glauca Pendula'), 115.01-03
Wegner, Alfred, 345.17
Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington, 81.20-21, 267.30-31, 319.13
Wellington, Duke of, 81.20-21, 267.30-31, 319.13
Wellinton, Mt, 312.28, 319.13
Wells, H. G., Forenote Part One, Ch.3, 19.31-32, 71.05, 91.02, 118.16, 133.02-03, 203.21-23, 338.08-09, 343.33, 373.23
West Point football team, 69.09-10,
Westermarck, Edward, 54.03-04
White Sea-Baltic canal, forced labour, 259.18-19
Whitehorse, Yukon, 11.25, 236.02-03
Wicklow county, 103.23-24
Wicklow town, 103.23-24
Wilde. Oscar, 306.07
willow, weeping (Salix babylonica), 64.27-30
willow, Golden weeping (Salix alba Morton), 198.11-12
Wilson City, N.C., 224.16
Wilson, Colin, 107.25-26
Wilson, Edmund, 3.04, 224.16
Wilson, Woodrow, 14.21-23
Windsor Castle, 182.09
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 373.17-33
Wodehouse, P.G., 157.08
Wolfe, Thomas, 403.11
Wolseley, 257.03
Wonder Woman, 426.10
Woodcook orchid, (Ophrys scolopax), 31.17-32.12, 101.16-17, Afternote Part 1, Ch. 16
Wootton, John, Lamprey, with his owner Sir William Morgan, at Newmarket, 278.23-24
Wordsworth,William, 145.18-19, 217.28-218.04
Wright of Derby, Joseph, by Erasmus Darwin, 115.32-34

Xertigny, department of Vosges, Lorraine, France, 339.23-24

Yalta, 20.05
Yakima County, Fifes Peaks, 339.29, 427.05
Yakima River, 339.29
Yeats, W.B., 43.33
Yellow Kid cartoon in New York Journal by Richard Outcault, 124.28-30
Yellow Kid, The, comics by Richard Outcault, 124.28-30
Yerba buena, 71.22
Yew tree aril, 334.19-20
Yorkshire Terrier, 432.14
Young, Edward, Night Thoughts, 183.09-10
yucca, 385.06
yukata, 298.10

Zambézia province, Mozambique, 152.28
Zazie in the Metro, cover, 242.18
Zegris eupheme105.33-34, 342.31-33
Zenobius, St., 23.29-32
Zhivago, Dr, 371.15-16
Zhuangzi dreaming of a butterfly, sketch, 198.25
ziggurat, Uruk, 423.09
Zog I, King of Albania, 146.11
Zola, Émile, 365.16-17
Zotov, Vladimir, 339-23-24
Zukofsky, Louis, 412.24-26
Zurbarán, Francisco de, Lemons,Oranges, Cup and Flower, 46.08-09

Index by Page/Line Number

Part One, Chapters 1-43

Chapter 1 (pp. 3-9)
3.01-06, Lev Tolstoy
3.03, Ivan Turgenev
3.04, Mount Tabor
3.04b Robert Lowell
3.04b, Osip Mandelshtam
3.04b, Edmund Wilson
3.08, François-Réné Chateaubriand
3.09, Stendhal (Henri Beyle)
3.09, Thorn-apple (Datura stramonium)
3.10, Prince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky
3.10-11, Bras d'Or
3.10-11, hydrofoil by Alexander Graham Bell
3.10-11, photophone
3.15-21, General Peter Gansevoort
3.15, Ivan Aledandrovich Nabokov
3.15, Peter and Paul Fortress
3.16-17, Fort Severn
3.16-17, John Milton
3.18, Estotiland
4.03, Kaluga
4.04, Lake Ladoga
4.11, sur-royal antlers
4.16, Joseph Duveen
4.16b, Double Barrel by Nicholas Freeling
4.16(b), The Birth of Venus,by Sandro Botticelli
4.16(b), Rokeby Venus, The, by Diego Velásquez
4.22, Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
4.22, Anton Rubinstein
4.22, Pavel Aleksandrovitš Viskovatov
4.22, Mikhail Vrubel
4.22, Alexander Blok
4.22, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov
4.22, Eugene Onegin, first edition
4.24, Edgar Allan Poe
5.07, River Dore
5.09, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov by Ilya Repin
5.09, Kitezh
5.10-11, Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch
5.19-20, T. S. Eliot
5.21, hydraulic elevator
5.21-22, Manhattan Life Building
5.23-7.05, The Children of Captain Grant
5.23-7.05, Jules Verne, by Nadar
5.27, Marcus Tullius Cicero
6.01-03, Bonne Nuit les Petits
6.22-23, Baroness Emma Orczy, by Alexander Bassano
7.07-9.10, Ranunculaceae, Alpine columbine (Aquilegia alpina)
7.09 Château d'Oex photo
7.09 Château d'Oex poster
7.09, Brig
7.23, Alpine columbine
7.25, Hawkweed, (Hieracium auricula)
7.27, Ginkgo biloba
7.30, edelweiss
7.31-32, larches in winter
7.33, butterfly orchid (Oncidium papilio)
8.02, Alpes Maritimes
8.05, Koch's gentian (Gentiana acaulis)
8.07-09, Rorschach ink blot
8.12, spring gentian (Gentiana verna)
8.22. butterfly orchid (Oncidium papilio)
8.25-28, Jane Austen
8.31, Primavera Stabiae
9.18-29, Marcel Proust
Afternote Part 1, Ch.1, Bonne Nuit les Petits
Afternote Part 1, Ch.1, Primavera Stabiae
Afternote Part 1, Ch.1, Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch

Chapter 2 (pp. 10-16)
10.09, Winfield Scott
11.02-12, Notbek, sketch of Tatiana from Aleksander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
11.06-07, quill pen
11.25, Whitehorse, Yukon
11.28-29, sharavary
11.28-29, samovar
11.30-31, common marshmallow plant
11.30-31, peanut bush
11.33, Moscow's Boulevard Ring
12.01, twenty-five ruble note
12.07, Iberian peninsula
12.07b, Georgian tribesmen
12.12-13, Uncle Sam poster
12.30-13.05, Adam and Eve, by Parmagianino
12.30-13.05, preparatory sketch of Adam, by Parmagianino
13.33, Blaschka glass flower and burnet moth
14.03, dackel, Box II with young Nabokovs
14.05, clepsydra
14.21-23, Warren G. Harding
14.21-23, Woodrow Wilson
14.24, Blériot plane
14.34-15.01, Douglas Fairbanks
15.31, Chateaubriand
16.07, Lolita, Jackson Country
16.22, Adam and Eve by Cranach,
16.25, mercury (use in treatment of syphilis)
Afternote Part 1, Ch 2, Cattleya orchid on cover of Penguin Ada
Afternote Part 1, Ch 2, The Stone Guest, (Pushkin), illusration by Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin
Afternote Part 1, Ch 2, Divan Japonais, le, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, (picture hat)

Chapter 3 (pp. 17-30)
Forenote Part 1, Ch.3, H.G. Wells
Forenote Part 1, Ch.3, Samuel Butler
17.01, elevated railway
17.07-09, Luddites
17.09, Michael Faraday
17.12, Georges Braque, Violin and Candlestick
18.01, ha-ha
18.02-03, Tartary
18.02-03, Vinland
18.03, Kurland
1803b, Kuriles
18.04-07, President Abraham Lincoln
18.12-13, Albert Einstein
18.23-24, François Rabelais
18.24, Thomas Hobson
19.10, St George's emblem
19.21, Peri
19.27-29, British Empire
19.31-32, H.G. Wells
19.34-20.01, Ottoman Empire
20.05, Yalta
20.05b, Altyn Tag
20.07, dragonfly, Libellula cyanea
21.13-14, Ilya Il'f Fainzilberg and Evgeniy Petrovich Kataev
21.18-19, US map
21.19-21, Double Barrel by Nicholas Freeling
21.25, Mississippi River
21.25-26, Manitoba
21.26, Canadian Mounties
21.26, Russian peasant dress
21.33-34, Bryn Mawr
22.22, Appenzeller hound
23.09, Alexander Graham Bell's first telephon telephone
23.22, Alfred E. Houseman
23.22, Alfred Lord Tennyson
23.26-28, Guido Cavalcanti
23.29-32, St. Zenobius
23.29-32, Nikolay Gumilyov
24.01, General John J. ('Black Jack' ) Pershing
25.05, Hairy alpenrose (Rhododendron hirsutum)
26.01, Mt. Scex/Sex Rouge
26.01, Les Diablerets
26.01, Château d'Oex
26.12, Quelques Fleurs
26.19, Vision of Youth by Bartholomew Mikhail Nestorov
26.28, centaur
26.28, phoenix
27.09-10, Sigmund Freud
28.09, Adolf Hitler
28.21-22, Captain Mayne Reid
29.07, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, by Édouard Manet
29.10-11, Kaibab plateau, north rim
29.20-21, Edmond Rostand

Chapter 4 (pp. 31-33)
31.01-08, Henry James
31.07, Ivan Turgenev
31.14-15, tapir
31.14-15, Valery Bryusov
31.14-15, Yuli Ayhenvald
31.17-32.12, Woodcook orchid (Ophrys scolopax)
32.27-28, Bronzino, Venus, Satyr and Cupid
32.30, Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire
33.01, Lucky Luke
33.04, Lord Chesterfield, (Philip Dormer Stanhope)
33.30-31, Capability Brown, Northern Lake in Newton St.Loe College
Afternote Part 1, Ch. 4, Eton College

Chapter 5 (pp. 34-40)
34.04-35.31, hackney coach
35.04, runabout
34.05, horse-drawn trap
34.15, horse-drawn calèche
35.02, izba
35.03, jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)
35.28, tricorn hat
36.03-08, Farman I aeroplane
36.06, buttercup
35.17-18, Chatsworth House
35.17-18, Anthony Trollope c1870s
35.17-18, George Eliot
35.17-18, Jane Austen
36.07-08, Boucher ceiling
36.20, Persian lilac (Syringa persica)
37.11, horse-drawn victoria
37.13-14, anemones
37.13-14, celandines
37.13-14, columbines
37.28-29, Lady Amherst's pheasant
38.09-11, Jackie Kennedy
38.09-11, John Milton
38.09-11, Lady Bird Johnson
38.09-11, Abraham Lincoln,
38.09-11, Mary Todd Lincoln
38.09-11, Lyndon B. Johnson
38.11, Empress Josephine of France
38.19-20, Fyodor Dostoevsky
38.23, Gainsborough hat
39.24-25, bridal crown
Afternote Part 1, Ch. 5, sketch of Adam by Parmagianino
Afternote Part 1, Ch. 5, Lady Amherst's pheasant
Afternote Part 1, Ch. 5, picture hat (Le Divan Japonais) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Afternote Part 1, Ch. 5, Bird of Paradise