INDEX. 



1[ ACACIAS, 46, 156 

 Acarus, 209 

 Acclirnature, 70 

 A chras sapota, 116 

 Acoyapo, 48, 386 

 Acrocinus lonyinianus, 34 

 Adiantum, 36 

 Aguardiente, 63, 231 

 Aguasco, 202 

 Ahuacatl, 107 

 Airey, Sir George, 305 

 Alligators, 3, 9, 15, 44, 159 

 Alloy, 88 

 Alluvial deposits, 86 



gold, 263 



Amalgam, 93 

 Amalgamation process, 93 

 America, western side of tropical, 



food of people, 55 

 American race, derivation of, 371 

 Amerrique range, the, 155, 324 



Ampullaria, 331 



Amusements, Nicaraguan, 234 



Ancimea oblonyifolia, 196 



hirsuta, 196 



Ancylus, 331, 333 



Andagoya, Pascual de, 360 ; his 

 account of Nicaragua, 360 ; on 

 chicha- drinking, 279 



Angelot, M., on fused rock, 98 



Anyrcecum sesquipedale, 133 



Anolis, 339, 340 



Antiyotwn Icptopus, 4, 239 



Antiquities, 50 



Indian, 50, 165 



Antonio, San, lode, 89 



valley, 126 



Ants, 7, 17, 181, 219, 221, 314, 

 315 



Ants, army, 17 ; assisting each 

 other, 26 ; attending leaf- 

 hoppers, 227 ; attending scale- 

 insects, 225 ; ant bridge, 27 ; 

 communicate by scent, 23 ; 

 cows, 226; foraging, 17; 

 hunting, 115 ; inhabiting 

 bull's-horn thorn, 218; leaf- 

 cutters, 71-84 ; pseudomyrma, 

 23 ; reason in, 27, 76, 83 ; 

 sagacity of, 83 ; stinging, 115 ; 

 thrushes, 20 



Apanas, 241 . 



Aphides, 226 



Armadillos, 46, 84, 313 



Arrastres, 93 



Articulata, 27, 28 



Artificial selection, 207 



Artigna river, 106, 147 



Arums, 6, 57 



Asses, 48 



Ateles, 341 



Atlantis, 270, 365 



Auriferous quartz, 87, 1 -', '.'6 



. veins of, in 



Queensland, 96 



Australia, hot winds in, 305 



wasps in, 134 



whirlwinds in, 303 



A vila, Gil Gouzales de, 358 



Avocado, 107 



trees, 66 



Axes, ancient Mexican, 41 



- stone, 154 

 Aztecs, 155, 363 



BALDWIN, J. D., 362 

 Bamboo thickets, 179 

 Bananas, 12, 67 



