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.
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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.