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INDEX.

• Abbott, Mr., on spiders,26
• Aborigines banished from Van Diemen's Land, —of Australia,
• Abrolhos Islands,
• Absence of trees in Pampas,
• Aconcagua, volcano of,
• Actinia, stinging species,
• Africa, Southern part desert, yet supports large animals,
• Ageronia feronia,
• Agouti, habits of,
• Ague common in Peru,
• Albemarle Island,
• Allan, Dr., on Diodon, II. —on Holuthuriae,
• Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, —stratified, in Andes,
• Amblyrhynchus,
• Anas, species of,
• Animalculae, See Infusoria,
• Antarctic islands,
• Antipodes,
• Ants at Keeling Island, —in Brazil,
• Antuco volcano,
• Apires, or miners,
• Aplysia,
• Apple—trees,
• Aptenodytes demersa,
• Araucanian Indians,
• Areas of alternate movements in the Pacific and Indian oceans,
• Armadilloes, habits of, —fossil animals allied to,
• Arqueros mines,
• Arrow—heads, ancient,
• Ascension,
• Aspalax, blindness of,
• Athene cunicularia,
• Atolls,
• Attagis,
• Atwater, Mr., on the prairies,
• Audubon, M., on smelling—power of carrion—hawks,
• Australia,
• Australian barrier, group of weapons,
• Ava (Macropiper methysticum),
• Azara on spiders, —on rain in La Plata, —on habits of carrion—hawks, on range of carrion—hawks, —on a thunder—storm, —on ostrich—eggs, —on bows and arrows, —on new plants springing up, —on great droughts, —on hydrophobia,
• Bachman, Mr., on carrion—hawks.
• Bahia Blanca, fossil tooth of horse from,
• Bahia, Brazil, ^P—scenery of,
• Bajada,
• Balbi on coral reefs,
• Bald Head, Australia,
• Ballenar, Chile,
• Banda Oriental,
• Banks's Hill,
• Barking—bird,
• Barrier—reef, Bolabola, reefs, sections of,
• Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz,
• Bathurst, Australia,
• Batrachian reptiles,
• Bats, vampire,
• Bay of Islands, New Zealand,
• Beads, hill of,
• Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego,
• Beech—trees,
• Beetles alive in sea, 115, —dung—feeders,^P —at St,Julian,^P —in brackish water,^P —on a fungus^P
• Behring's Straits, fossils of,
• Bell of Quillota,
• Benchuca,
• Berkeley Sound,
• Berkeley, Reverend J.,on confervæ, II. —on Cyttaria.^P —Sound, 136.^P
• Berquelo river.
• Bibron, M.
• Bien te veo,
• Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, tameness of,
• Birgos latro,
• Bizcacha, habits of,
• Blackheath, Australia,
• Blackwall, Mr., on spiders,
• Blindness of tucutuco,
• Blue Mountains,
• Body, frozen,
• Bolabola, barrier—reef,
• Bolas, manner of using,
• Bombs, volcanic,
• Bones of the guanaco collected in certain spots, —fire made of, —recent in Pampas, —fossil, 60,91,93,112,126.
• Bory St. Vincent on frogs,
• Boulders,
• Bramador, El,
• Brazil, great area of granite,
• Brazilian whips, etc,
• Breaches in coral reefs,
• Breakwater of seaweed,
• Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous deposit,
• Bridge of hide,^P —of Incas,
• Buckland, Dr., on fossils,
• Buenos Ayres, trading at, evening camp, bullock—waggons,
• Buffon on American Animals,
• Bug of Pampas,
• Buildings, Indian,
• Bulimus on desert places,
• Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds,^P —on ostrich—eggs,^P —on perforated stones,
• Butterflies, flocks of,
• Butterfly producing clicking sound,
• Button, Jemmy.
• Byron's account of fox of Falklands, on an Indian killing his child,
• Cabbage palm,
• Cacti,
• Cactornis,
• Cactus, Cereus Peruviana,
• Calasoma on wing out at sea,
• Calcareous casts of branches and roots of trees at King George's Sound, incrustations on rocks of Ascension,
• Callao,
• Calodera,
• Calomys bizcacha,
• Camarhynchus,
• Camelidae, fossil animal allied to,
• Cancer salinus,
• Canis antarcticus, fulvipes,
• Cape Horn, False Horn, of Good Hope,
• Capybara, or carpincho, fossil allied to,
• Caracara, or Carrancha,
• Cardoon, beds of,
• Carizal,
• Carmichael, Captain.
• Carrion—hawks,
• Casarita,
• Cassava,
• Castro, Chiloe, old church at,
• Casuchas,
• Catamaran,
• Cathartes,
• Cats run wild, mdash;good to eat, mdash;scratch trees, mdash;cruelty to mice,
• Cattle, effects of their grazing on the vegetation, mdash;killed by great droughts, mdash;know each other, mdash;curious breed of, mdash;waste of, mdash;wild at the Falkland Islands,
• Caucahue,
• Cauquenes, hot springs of,
• Causes of extinction of species among mammalia, mdash;of discoloured sea,
• Cavia Patagonica,
• Cawa—Cawa, New Zealand,
• Caylen,
• Cervus campestris,
• Ceryle Americana,
• Chacao, Chiloe,
• Chagos atolls,
• Chalk—like mud,
• Chamisso on drifted seeds and trees, mdash;on coral reefs,
• Changes in vegetation of Pampas, mdash;in vegetation of St, Helena,
• Charles Island,
• Chatham Island,
• Cheese, salt required for,
• Cheucau,
• Chile, mdash;features of country,
• Chilenos,
• Chilian miner, spurs, stirrup, etc, vegetation,
• Chiloe, mdash;old church at castro, mdash;forests of, mdash;and climate, mdash;inhabitants of, mdash;roads of, mdash;Gunnera scabra,
• Chionis alba,
• Cholechel, conflict at,
• Chonos Archipelago, climate of, zoology of, ornithology of,
• Chupat, Rio,
• Chuzo.
• Cicada homoptera,
• Cladonia,
• Clearness of atmosphere within Andes, in Chile,
• Climate of Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands, Antarctic Islands, mdash;change of, mdash;in Chile, mdash;Galapagos,
• Clouds of vapour after rain, mdash;on Corcovado, mdash;hanging low, mdash;at sea,
• Coloeoptera in Tropics, out at sea, of St, Julian,
• Colias edusa, flocks of,
• Colnett, Captain, on spawn in sea, mdash;on a marine lizard, mdash;on transport of seeds,
• Colonia del Sacramiento,
• Colorado, Rio,
• Compound animals,
• Concepcion, Chile,
• Conchalee,
• Condor, habits of, (Sarcorhamphus gryphus,)
• confervæ, pelagic,
• Conglomerate on the Ventana, mdash;in Cordillera,
• Conurus,
• Convicts of Mauritius, mdash;condition, in New South Wales,
• Cook, Captain, on kelp,
• Copiapó, river and valley of, mdash;town of,
• Coquimbo,
• Coral formations, mdash;stinging species of, reefs, sections of, mdash;dead,
• Corallines,
• Corals,
• Corcovado, clouds on, mdash;volcano,
• Cordillera, appearance of, mdash;different productions on east and west side, mdash;passage of, mdash;structure of valleys, mdash;rivers of, mdash;geology of, valley of Copiapó, mdash;mountains,
• Cormorant catching fish,
• Corral, where animals are slaughtered at Buenos Ayres,
• Corrientes, Cape,
• Corrobery, or native Australian dance,
• Corunda,
• Coseguina, eruption of,
• Countries, unhealthy,
• Couthouy, Mr., on coral—reefs,
• Crabberies,
• Crabs, hermit species of, mdash;at St. Paul's, mdash;at Keeling Island,
• Craters,number of, mdash;at the Galapagos Archipelago, mdash;of Elevation,
• Crisia,
• Cruelty to animals,
• Crustacea, pelagic,
• Ctenomys Brasiliensis, mdash;fossil species of,
• Cucao,Chiloe,
• Cuckoo—like habits of Molothrus,
• Cuentas,Sierra de,
• Cumbre of Cordillera,
• Cuming,Mr.,on shells,
• Cuttlefish,habits of,
• Cuvier on Diodon,
• Cynara cardunculus,
• Cyttaria Darwinii,
• Dacelo Iagoensis,
• Dasypus, three species of,
• Deer,
• Degradation of tertiary formations,
• Deinornis,
• Deserts,
• Desmodus,
• Despoblado, valley of,
• Dieffenbach, Dr. E. on Auckland Island,
• Diodon, habits of,
• Discoloured sea,
• Diseases from miasma,
• Distribution of mammalia in America, mdash;of animals on opposite sides of Cordillera, mdash;of frogs, mdash;of Fauna of Galapagos,
• Dobrizhoffer on ostriches, on a hail—storm,
• Docks, imported,
• Dogs, shepherd,
• Dolichonyx oryzivorus,
• D'Orbigny, Travels in South America,
• Doris, eggs of,
• Doubleday, Mr., on a noise made by a butterfly,
• Drigg, lightning tubes at,
• Droughts, great, in Pampas,
• Dryness of St, Jago, mdash;of winds in Tierra del Fuego, mdash;of air in Cordillera,
• Dubois,
• Dung—feeding beetles,
• Dust, falling from atmosphere,
• Earthenware, fossil,
• Earthquake, accompanied by an elevation of the coast, mdash;accompanied by rain, mdash;at Callao, mdash;at Concepcion, mdash;at Coquimbo, mdash;at Keeling and Vanikoro, and Society Islands, at Valdivia, mdash;causes of, mdash;effect of, on springs, on bottom of sea, mdash;effects of, on rocks, mdash;effects of, on sea, mdash;effects of, on a river—bed, mdash;line of vibration of, mdash;on south—west coast, mdash;tossing fragments from the ground, mdash;twisting movement of,
• Eggs of Doris,
• Ehrenberg, Professor, on Atlantic dust, mdash;on infusoria in Pampas, mdash;in the open sea, mdash;in Patagonia, mdash;in Fuegian paint, mdash;in coral mud, mdash;in tuff at Ascension, mdash;on phosphorescence of the sea, mdash;on noises from a hill,
• Eimeo,
• Elater, springing powers of,
• Electricity of atmosphere within Andes,
• Elephant, weight of,
• Elevated shells,
• Elevation of coasts of Chile, mdash;Bahia Blanca, mdash;Pampas, mdash;Patagonia, mountain—chains, mdash;Cordillera, mdash;Peru, mdash;within human period, fringing—reefs,
• Entomology of the Galapagos Archipelago, mdash;Brazil, mdash;Patagonia, mdash;Tierra del Fuego, mdash;Keeling Island, mdash;St. Helena.
• Entre Rios, geology of,
• Epeira, mdash;habits of,
• Erratic blocks, how transported, mdash;absent in intertropical countries, on plains of Santa Cruz, mdash;of Tierra del Fuego,
• Estancia, value of,
• Extermination of species and races,
• Extinction of shells at St. Helena. of species, causes of,
• Eyes of tucutuco and mole,
• Eyre Sound,
• Falconer, Dr., on the Sivatherium, mdash;on the Indians, mdash;on rivers in Pampas, mdash;on natural enclosures,
• Falkland Islands, mdash;absence of trees at, mdash;carrion—hawks of, mdash;wild cattle and horses of, mdash;fox of, mdash;climate of, mdash;peat of, mdash;tame birds at,
• Fat, quantity eaten,
• Fatahua fall,
• Fear an acquired instinct,
• Februa,
• Fennel run wild,
• Ferguson, Dr., on miasma,
• Fernando Noronha,
• Ferns, tree,
• Fields of dead coral,
• Fire, art of making,
• Fireflies,
• Fish emitting harsh sound, of Galapagos, mdash;eating coral,
• Flamingoes,
• Fleas,
• Floods after droughts, mdash;clear after snow,
• Flora of the Galapagos, mdash;of Keeling Island, mdash;of St. Helena,
• Flustraceae,
• Forests, mdash;absence of, mdash;in La Plata, mdash;of Tierra del Fuego, mdash;of Chiloe, of Valdivia, mdash;of New Zealand, mdash;of Australia,
• Fossil Mammalia, mdash;earthenware,
• Fox of the Falkland Islands, mdash;of Chiloe,
• Freyrina,
• Friendly Archipelago,
• Fringing reefs,
• Frogs, noises of, mdash;bladders of, mdash;and toads, mdash;not found on oceanic islands,
• Frozen soil,
• Fruit—trees, southern limit of,
• Fucus giganteus,
• Fuegians,
• Fulgurites,
• Fungus, edible,
• Furnarius,
• Galapagos Archipelago, natural history of, mdash;marked relationship with America,
• Gale of wind,
• Gallegos river, fossil bones at,
• Gallinazo,
• Gauchos, mdash;character of, mdash;live on meat, mdash;surcingle of,
• Gavia mountain,
• Gay, M., mdash;on floating islands, mdash;on shells in brackish water,
• Geese at the Falkland Islands,
• Geographical distribution of American animals, mdash;of frogs, mdash;of fauna of Galapagos,
• Geology of Cordillera, mdash;of St. Jago, mdash;of St. Paul, mdash;of Brazil, mdash;of Bahia Blanca, mdash;of Pampas, mdash;of Patagonia,
• Georgia, climate of,
• Geospiza,
• Gill, Mr., on an upheaved river—bed.
• Gillies, Dr., on the Cordillera,
• Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, mdash;in latitude 46 degrees 40', mdash;in Cordillera,
• Glow—worms,
• Goats destructive to vegetation at St. Helena, mdash;bones of,
• Goeree Roads,
• gôitre,
• Gold—washing,
• Good Success Bay,
• Gossamer spider,
• Gould, Mr., on the Calodera, mdash;on birds of Galapagos,
• Granite mountains, Tres Montes, mdash;of Cordillera,
• Graspus,
• Gravel, how far transported, mdash;of Patagonia,
• Graves of Indians,
• Greenstone, fragments of,
• Gryllus migratorius,
• Guanaco, habits of, mdash;fossil allied genus,
• Guantajaya, mines of,
• Guardia del Monte,
• Guasco,
• Guasos of Chile,
• Guava imported into Tahiti,
• Guinea—fowl,
• Guitron,
• Gunnera scabra,
• Gypsum, great beds of, mdash;in salt—lake, mdash;in Patagonian tertiary beds, at Iquique with salt, mdash;at Lima with shells,
• Hachette, M., on lightning—tubes,
• Hail—storm,
• Hall, Captain Basil, on terraces of Coquimbo,
• Hare, Varying,
• Head, Captain, on thistle—beds,
• Height of snow—line on Cordillera,
• Henslow, Professor, on potatoes, mdash;on plants of Keeling Island,
• Hermit crabs,
• Hide bridge,
• Hill emitting a noise,
• Himantopus,
• Hobart Town and Mount Wellington,
• Hogoleu barrier—reef,
• Holes made by a bird,
• Holman on drifted seeds,
• Holothuriae feeding on coral,
• Homeward bound,
• Hooker, Sir J., on the Cardoon. , mdash;Dr. J.D., on the kelp. on Galapageian plants,
• Horn, Cape,
• Horner, Mr., on a calcareous deposit,
• Horse, swimming powers of,
• Horse, mdash;wild at the Falkland Islands, mdash;fossil of extinct species of,
• Horse—fly,
• Horsemanship of the Gauchos,
• Hot springs of Cauquenes,
• Huacas,
• Humboldt on burnished rocks, mdash;on the atmosphere in tropics, mdash;on frozen soil, mdash;on hybernation, mdash;on potatoes, mdash;on earthquakes and rain, on miasma,
• Humming—birds of Rio De Janeiro, mdash;of Chiloe,
• Hurtado,
• Hybernation of animals,
• Hydrochaerus capybara,
• Hydrophobia,
• Hyla,
• Hymenophallus,
• Ibis melanops,
• Ice, prismatic structure of,
• Icebergs,
• Incas' bridge,
• Incrustations on coast rocks,
• Indian fossil remains,
• Indians, mdash;attacks of, mdash;antiquarian relics of, mdash;Araucanian, mdash;of the Pampas, mdash;decrease in numbers of, mdash;grave of, mdash;Patagonian, mdash;perforated stones used by, mdash;Valdivian, mdash;powers of tracking, mdash;ruins of houses of,
• Infection,
• Infusoria in dust in the Atlantic, mdash;in the sea, mdash;in the Pampas, mdash;in Patagonia, mdash;in white paint, mdash;in coral mud, mdash;at Ascension,
• Insects first colonists of St. Paul's rocks, mdash;blown out to sea, mdash;of Patagonia, mdash;of Tierra del Fuego, mdash;of Galapagos, mdash;of Keeling Island, mdash;of St. Helena,
• Instincts of birds,
• Iodine with salt at Iquique,
• Iquique,
• Iron, oxide of, mdash;on rocks,
• Irregular troops,
• Islands, mdash;oceanic, mdash;volcanic, mdash;Antarctic, mdash;floating, mdash;Low,
• Jackson, Colonel, on frozen snow,
• Jaguar, habits of,
• Jajuel, mines of,
• James Island,
• Jemmy Button,
• Juan Fernandez, volcano of, mdash;flora of,
• Kangaroo—hunting,
• Kater's Peak,
• Kauri pine,
• Keeling Island, mdash;inside an atoll, mdash;flora of, mdash;birds of, mdash;entomology of, subsidence of, mdash;Birgos latro,
• Kelp, or seaweed,
• Kendall, Lieutenant, on a frozen body,
• Kingfishers,
• King George's Sound,
• Kororadika,
• Labourers, condition of, mdash;in Chile,
• Lagoon—islands,
• Lagostomus,
• Lake, brackish, mdash;near Rio, mdash;with floating islands, mdash;formed during earthquake,
• Lamarck on acquired blindness,
• Lampyris,
• Lancaster, Captain, on a sea—tree,
• Land—shells,
• Las Minas,
• Lazo,
• Leaves, mdash;fossil,
• Leeks in New Zealand, imported,
• Lemuy Island,
• Lepus Magellanicus,
• Lesson, M., on the scissor—beak, mdash;on rabbit of the Falklands,
• Lichen on loose sand,
• Lichtenstein on ostriches,
• Lightning storms, mdash;tubes,
• Lima, mdash;and San Lorenzo, mdash;elevation of a river near,
• Lime, changed by lava into crystalline rock,
• Limnaea in brackish water,
• Lion—ant,
• Lizard, marine species of,
• Lizards, transport of,
• Llama or guanaco, habits of,
• Locusts,
• Longevity of species in Mollusca,
• Lorenzo, San, island of,
• Low Archipelago,
• Luciano, story of,
• Lumb, Mr.
• Lund, M., on antiquity of man,
• Lund and Clausen on fossils of Brazil,
• Luxan,
• Luxuriant vegetation not necessary to support large animals,
• Lycosa,
• Lyell, Mr., on terraces of Coquimbo, mdash;on longevity of Mollusca, mdash;on change in vegetation, mdash;on fossil horses' teeth, mdash;on flocks of butterflies, mdash;on extinct mammals and ice—period, mdash;on stones twisted by earthquakes, mdash;on frozen snow, mdash;on distribution of animals, mdash;on subsidence in the Pacific,
• MacCulloch on infection,
• Macquarie river,
• Macrauchenia,
• Macrocystis,
• Madrina, or godmother of a troop of mules,
• Magdalen channel,
• Magellan, flora of. H.M.S. Beagle in Straits of, mdash;Straits of,
• Malcolmson, Dr., on hail,
• Maldiva atolls,
• Maldonado,
• Mammalia, fossil,
• Man, antiquity of, mdash; body frozen, mdash; fossil remains of, mdash; fear of, mdash;an acquired instinct, mdash;extinction of races,
• Mandetiba,
• Mandioca or cassava,
• Mare's flesh eaten by troops,
• Mares killed for their hides,
• Mastodon,
• Maté pots and Bambillio,
• Matter, granular, movements in,
• Mauritius,
• Maypu river,
• Megalonyx,
• Megatherium,
• Mendoza, climate of,
• Mercedes on the Rio Negro,
• Mexico, elevation of,
• Miasmata,
• Mice inhabit sterile places, mdash;number of, mdash;in America, mdash;how transported, mdash;different on opposite sides of Andes, mdash;of the Galapagos, mdash;of Ascension,
• Millepora,
• Mills for grinding ores,
• Mimosae,
• Mimus,
• Miners, condition of,
• Mines, mdash;how discovered,
• Missionaries at New Zealand,
• Mitchell, Sir T., on valleys of Australia,
• Mocking—bird,
• Molina omits description of certain birds,
• Molothrus, habits of,
• Monkeys with prehensile tails,
• Monte Video,
• Moresby, Captain, mdash;on a great crab, mdash;on coral—reefs,
• Mount Sarmiento, mdash;Tarn, mdash;Victoria,
• Mountains, elevation of,
• Movements in granular matter,
• Mud, chalk—like, mdash;disturbed by earthquake,
• Mules,
• Muniz, Signor, on niata cattle,
• Murray, Mr., on spiders,
• Mylodon,
• Myopotamus Coypus,
• Narborough Island,
• Negress with gôitre,
• Negro, Rio, mdash;lieutenant,
• Nepean river,
• New Caledonia, reef of,
• New Zealand,
• Niata cattle,
• Noises from a hill,
• Noses, ceremony of pressing,
• Nothura,
• Notopod, crustacean,
• Nulliporae, incrustations like, mdash;protecting reefs,
• Octopus, habits of,
• Oily coating on sea,
• Olfersia,
• Opetiorhynchus,
• Opuntia, mdash;Darwinii, mdash;Galapageia,
• Orange—trees self—sown,
• Ores, gold,
• Ornithology of Galapagos,
• Ornithorhynchus,
• Osorno, volcano of,
• Ostrich, habits of,
• Ostrich's eggs,
• Otaheite,
• Otter,
• Ova in sea,
• Oven—bird,
• Owen, Captain, on a drought in Africa, mdash;Professor, on the Capybara, fossil quadrupeds, mdash;nostrils of the Gallinazo,
• Owl of Pampas, of Galapagos Islands,
• Oxyurus,
• Oysters, gigantic,
• Paint, white,
• Pallas on Siberia,
• Palm—trees in La Plata, mdash;south limit of, mdash;in Chile,
• Palms absent at Galapagos,
• Pampas, halt at a pulperia on the, mdash;number of embedded remains in, southern limit of, mdash;changes in, mdash;giant thistle of, mdash;not quite level, geology of, mdash;view of, mdash;from the Andes,
• Pan de Azucar,
• Papilio feronia,
• Parana, Rio, mdash;River, mdash;islands in,
• Parish, Sir W., on the great drought,
• Park, Mungo, on eating salt,
• Parrots,
• Partridges,
• Pas, fortresss of New Zealand,
• Passes in Cordillera,
• Pasture altered from grazing of cattle,
• Patagones,
• Patagonia, geology of, mdash;birds of, mdash;zoology of, mdash;raised beaches,
• Patagonian bolas, mdash;etc,
• Patagonians, mdash;Cape Gregory,
• Paypote ravine,
• Peach—trees self—sown,
• Peat, formation of,
• Pebbles perforated, mdash;transported in roots of trees,
• Pelagic animals in southern ocean,
• Penas, glacier in Gulf of,
• Penguin, habits of,
• Pepsis, habits of,
• Pernambuco, reef of,
• Pernety on hill of ruins, mdash;on tame birds,
• Peru, mdash;dry valleys of,
• Petrels, habits of,
• Peuquenes, Pass of,
• Phonolite at Fernando Noronha,
• Phosphorescence of the sea, mdash;of land insects and sea animals, mdash;of a coralline,
• Phryniscus,
• Pine of New Zealand,
• Plains at foot of Andes in Chile, mdash;almost horizontal near St. Fé,
• Planariæ, terrestrial species of,
• Plants of the Galapagos, mdash;of Keeling island, mdash;of St. Helena,
• Plants, mdash;fossil, mdash;in Australia,
• Plata, mdash;River, mdash;thunderstorms of,
• Plover, mdash;long—legged,
• Polished rocks, Brazil,
• Polyborus chimango, mdash;Braziliensis, mdash;Novæ Zelandiæ,
• Ponsonby Sound,
• Porpoises,
• Port Desire, mdash;river of, mdash;St, mdash;Julian, mdash;Famine, mdash;Jackson,
• Portillo Pass,
• Porto Praya,
• Potato, wild,
• Potrero Seco,
• Prairies, vegetation of,
• Prevost, M., on cuckoos,
• Priestley, Dr., on lightning—tubes.
• Prisoner, bringing in a,
• Procellaria gigantea, habits of,
• Proctotretus,
• Proteus, blindness of,
• Protococcus nivalis,
• Pteroptochos, two species of, mdash;species of,
• Puenta del Inca,
• Puffinuria Berardii,
• Puffinus cinereus,
• Puma, habits of, mdash;flesh of,
• Puna, mdash;or short respiration,
• Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, mdash;Gorda, mdash;Huantamó,
• Pyrophorus luminosus,
• Quadrupeds, fossil, mdash;large, do not require luxuriant vegetation, weight of,
• Quartz of the Ventana, mdash;of Tapalguen, mdash;of Falkland Island,
• Quedius,
• Quellaypo volcano,
• Quilimari,
• Quillota, valley of,
• Quinchao Island,
• Quintero,
• Quiriquina Island,
• Quoy and Gaimard on stinging corals, mdash;on coral—reefs,
• Rabbit, wild, at the Falkland Islands,
• Rain at Coquimbo, mdash;at Rio, mdash;effects on vegetation, mdash;and earthquakes, in Chile, mdash;formerly more abundant, mdash;in Peru,
• Rana Mascariensis,
• Rat, only aboriginal animal of New Zealand,
• Rats at Galapagos, mdash;at Keeling Island, mdash;at Ascension,
• Rattlesnake, species with allied habit,
• Red snow,
• Reduvius,
• Reef at Pernambuco of sandstone,
• Reefs of coral, barrier, mdash;fringing,
• Reeks, Mr., analysis of salt, mdash;bones, mdash;salt and shells,
• Remains, human, mdash;elevated,
• Remedies of the Gauchos,
• Rengger on the horse,
• Reptiles absent in Tierra del Fuego, mdash;at Galapagos,
• Respiration difficult in Andes,
• Retrospect,
• Revolutions at Buenos Ayres,
• Rhea Darwinii (Avestruz Petise),
• Rhinoceroses live in desert countries, mdash;frozen,
• Rhynchops nigra,
• Richardson, Dr., on mice of North America, mdash;on frozen soil, mdash;on eating fat, mdash;on geographical distribution, mdash;on polished rocks,
• Rimsky atoll,
• Rio de Janeiro, mdash;Botofogo Bay, mdash;Plata, mdash;Negro, mdash;Colorado, mdash;Sauce, Salado, mdash;S, mdash;Cruz,
• River—bed, mdash;arched,
• River—courses dry in America,
• Rivers, power of, in wearing channels,
• Rocks burnished with ferruginous matter,
• Rodents, number of, mdash;in America, mdash;fossil species of,
• Rosas, General,
• Rozario,
• Ruins of Callao, mdash;of Indian buildings in Cordillera,
• Salado, mdash;Rio,
• Saladillo river,
• Salinas at the Galapagos Archipelago, mdash;in Patagonia,
• Saline efflorescences,
• Salt with vegetable food, mdash;superficial crust of, mdash;with elevated shells,
• Salt—lakes,
• San Carlos, Nicolas, Felipe, mdash;Pedro, mdash;Pedro, mdash;forests of, mdash;Lorenzo Island,
• Sand—dunes,
• Sand, hot from sun's rays, mdash;at Galapagos Archipelago, mdash;noise from friction of,
• Sandstone of New South Wales, mdash;reef of,
• Sandwich Archipelago, no frogs at, mdash;Land,
• Santa Cruz, river of,
• Santiago, Chile,
• Sarmiento, Mount,
• Sauce, Rio,
• Saurophagus sulphureus,
• Scarus eating corals,
• Scelidotherium,
• Scenery of Andes,
• Scissor—beak, habits of,
• Scissor—tail,
• Scoresby, Mr., on effects of snow on rocks,
• Scorpions, cannibals,
• Scrope, Mr., on earthquakes,
• Scytalopus,
• Sea, open, mdash;inhabitants of, mdash;phosphorescence of, mdash;explosions in,
• Sea—pen, habits of,
• Seals, number of,
• Seaweed, growth of,
• Seeds transported by sea,
• Serpulae,
• Sertularia, protecting reef,
• Shark killed by Diodon,
• Shaw, Dr., on lion's flesh,
• Sheep, infected,
• Shelley, lines on Mont Blanc,
• Shells, land, in great numbers, mdash;elevated, mdash;tropical forms of, mdash;far south, mdash;fossil, mdash;of Cordillera, mdash;decomposition of, mdash;with salt, mdash;of Galapagos, mdash;at St. Helena,
• Shepherd's dogs,
• Shingle—bed of Patagonia,
• Shongi, New Zealand chief,
• Siberia compared with Patagonia, mdash;zoology of, mdash;related to North America,
• Siberian animals, how preserved in ice, mdash;food necessary during their existence,
• Sierra de la Ventana, mdash;Tapalguen,
• Silicified trees,
• Silurian formations at Falkland Islands,
• Silurus, habits of,
• Sivatherium,
• Skunks,
• Slavery,
• Smelling power of carrion—hawks,
• Smith, Dr, Andrew, on the support of large quadrupeds, mdash;on perforated pebbles,
• Snake, venomous,
• Snow, effects of, on rocks, mdash;prismatic structure of, mdash;red,
• Snow—line on Cordillera,
• Socêgo,
• Society, state of, mdash;in La Plata, mdash;state of, mdash;in Australia, Archipelago, mdash;volcanic phenomena at,
• Soda, nitrate of, mdash;sulphate of,
• Soil, frozen,
• South American bit,
• Spawn on surface of sea,
• Species, distribution of, mdash;extinction of,
• Spiders, habits of, mdash;gossamer, mdash;killed by and killing wasps, mdash;on Keeling Island, mdash;on St. Paul's,
• Spurs of Guaso,
• Springs, hot,
• Stevenson, Mr., on growth of seaweed,
• St. Helena. Jago, mdash;C. Verds, mdash;unhealthiness of, mdash;Paul's rocks, mdash;Fé, Maria, mdash;elevated, mdash;introduction of spirits into, mdash;Louis, mdash;Mauritius,
• Stinging animals,
• Stones perforated, mdash;transported in roots,
• Storm, mdash;in Cordillera,
• Streams of stones at Falkland Islands,
• Strongylus,
• Struthio rhea, mdash;Darwinii,
• Strzelecki,Count,
• Suadiva atoll,
• Subsidence of coral—reefs, mdash;of Patagonia, mdash;of Cordillera, mdash;of Coasts of Chile, mdash;cause of distinctness in Tertiary epochs,mdash;of coast of Peru, mdash;of Keeling Island, mdash;of Vanikoro, mdash;of coral—reefs great in amount,
• Sulphate of lime, mdash;soda with common salt, mdash;soda incrusting the ground,
• Swainson, Mr., on cuckoos,
• Sydney,
• Tabanus,
• Tahiti (Otaheite), mdash;three zones of fertility, mdash;Fatahua fall, Christianity in,
• Tahitian,
• Talcahuano,
• Tambillos, Ruinas de,
• Tameness of birds,
• Tandeel, pumas at,
• Tapacolo and Turco,
• Tapalguen, Sierra, mdash;flat hills of quartz,
• Tarn, Mount,
• Tasmania,
• Tattooing,
• Temperance of the Tahitians,
• Temperature of Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands, mdash;of Galapagos,
• Tercero, Rio, fossils in banks of,
• Terraces in valleys of Cordillera, mdash;of Patagonia, mdash;of Coquimbo,
• Tertiary formations of the Pampas, mdash;of Patagonia, mdash;in Chile, mdash;epochs of,
• Teru—tero, mdash;habits of,
• Testudo, two species of, mdash;Abingdonii, mdash;nigra, mdash;habits of,
• Theory of lagoon—islands,
• Theristicus melanops,
• Thistle beds,
• Thunder—storms,
• Ti, liliaceous plant,
• Tierra del Fuego, mdash;climate and vegetation of, mdash;zoology of, mdash;entomology of,
• Tinamus rufescens,
• Tinochorus rumicivorus,
• Toad, habits of, mdash;not found in oceanic islands,
• Torrents in Cordillera,
• Tortoise, habits of,
• Toxodon,
• Transparency of air in Andes, mdash;in St. Jago.
• Transport of boulders. of fragments of rock on banks of the St. Cruz river, mdash;of seeds, mdash;of stones in roots of trees,
• Travertin with leaves of trees, mdash;Van Diemen's Land,
• Tree—ferns, southern limits of,
• Trees, absence of, mdash;in Pampas, mdash;time required to rot, mdash;silicified, vertical, mdash;size of, mdash;floating, mdash;transport stones,
• Tres Montes,
• Trichodesmium,
• Trigonocephalus,
• Tristan d'Acunha,
• Trochilus forficatus,
• Tropical scenery,
• Tschudi, M., on subsidence,
• Tubes, siliceous, formed by lightning,
• Tucutuco, habits of, fossil species of,
• Tuff, craters of, mdash;infusoria in,
• Tupungato, volcano of,
• Turco, El,
• Turkey buzzard,
• Turtle, manner of catching,
• Type of organisation in Galapagos Islands, mdash;American,
• Types of organisation in different countries, mdash;constant,
• Tyrannus savana,
• Ulloa on hydrophobia, on Indian buildings,
• Unanáe, Dr., on hydrophobia,
• Uruguay, Rio, mdash;not crossed by the Bizcacha,
• Uspallata range and pass,
• Vacas, mdash;Rio,
• Valdivia, forests of,
• Valley of St. Cruz, how excavated, mdash;dry, mdash;at Copiapó,
• Valleys, excavation of, in Chile, mdash;of New South Wales, mdash;in Cordillera, mdash;of Tahiti,
• Valparaiso,
• Vampire bat,
• Van Diemen's Land,
• Vanellus cayanus,
• Vanessa, flocks of,
• Vanikoro,
• Vapour from forests,
• Vegetation of St. Helena, changes of, mdash;luxuriant, not necessary to support large animals, on opposite sides of Cordillera,
• Ventana, Sierra,
• Verbena melindres,
• Vilipilli,
• Villa Vicencio,
• Villarica volcano,
• Virgin forest,
• Virgularia Patagonica,
• Volcanic bombs, mdash;cellular formation of, mdash;islands, mdash;phenomena,
• Volcanoes near Chiloe, mdash;their presence determined by elevation or subsidence,
• Vultur aura,
• Waders, first colonists of distant islands,
• Waimate, New Zealand,
• Waiomio,
• Walckenaer on spiders,
• Walleechu tree,
• Wasps preying on spiders and killed by,
• Water—hog (Hydrochaerus capybara),
• Water—serpents,
• Water sold at Iquique,
• Water, fresh, mdash;floating on salt,
• Waterhouse, Mr., on Rodents, mdash;on the niata ox, mdash;on the insects of Tierra del Fuego, mdash;of Galapagos, mdash;on the terrestrial mammals of Galapagos,
• Waves caused by fall of ice, mdash;from earthquakes,
• Weather, connection with earthquakes,
• Weatherboard, New South Wales,
• Weeds in New Zealand, imported,
• Weight of large quadrupeds,
• Wellington, Mount,
• Wells, ebbing and flowing, mdash;at Iquique,
• West Indies, banks of sediment, mdash;zoology of, mdash;coral—reefs of,
• Whales, oil from, mdash;leaping out of water,
• White, Mr., on spiders,
• Whitsunday Island,
• Wigwam cove,
• Wigwams of Fuegians,
• Williams, Reverend Mr. on infectious disorders,
• Winds, dry, in Tierra del Fuego, mdash;at the Cape Verds, mdash;on Cordillera, cold, mdash;on Cordillera,
• Winter's Bark,
• Wolf at the Falklands,
• Wollaston Island,
• Wood, Captain, mdash;on the Agouti,
• Woollya,
• Yaquil gold mines,
• Yeso, Valle del,
• York Minster,
• Zonotrichia,
• Zoological provinces of North and South America,
• Zoology of Galapagos, mdash;of Tierra del Fuego, mdash;of Chonos Islands, mdash;of Keeling Island, mdash;of St. Helena,
• Zoophytes, mdash;at Falkland Islands,
• Zorillo, or skunk.