Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.

[1]

page 370

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.