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INDEX. 



Corrosive sublimate, 78 

 Corruption of names of places, 



107 



Cortess, 116 



Cosaguina, volcano of, 350 

 Cosmisonia Titania, 380 

 Couvade, the custom of the, 366- 



369 



Coyotes, 48 

 Cranes, 3 

 Crantor, on the island Atlantis, 



271 



Crax ylobicera, 121 

 Creepers, 20, 122 

 Crematoa,aster, '220 

 Crickets, 22 



Cross, the sign of the, 108 

 Crosses, 166 

 Cuapo, rock of, 55 

 Cuba, 55 

 Cuckoo-spit, 230 

 Curassow, 121 



Cyanocit/a melanocyanea, 238 

 Cybister, 332 

 Cyclones, 300-307 



- origin of, 301 

 West Indian, 306 

 Cyrtodeira Chontalensis, 116 



DAINTREE, Mr. R., on auriferous 

 veinstones, 96 



Darailly, 248 



Darlinytonia Californica, 184 



Darwin on animals and plants, 

 332 ; on continual varieties in 

 the same direction, 208 ; on 

 the effect of slight differences 

 of colour, 182 ; on fertilization 

 of scarlet runner, 70 ; on fossil 

 maize in Peru, 54 ; on fresh- 

 water mollusks, 334 ; on the 

 humble bee, 132 ; on migrations 

 of butterflies, 153 ; on natives 

 of Terra del Fuego, 172 



Decomposition of the rocks in 

 the forest region, 86 



Deer, 252 



hunter, 252 



Defoliation of tree, 72 



Degeneration of inhabitants of 



Central America, 171, 177 

 Dcliathis nivea (Bates), 180 

 Delta of the San Juan, 1 

 Deluge, traditions of the, 272 

 Denudation, 263 

 Depilto, 256 



Desmiphora fasciculata, 7 

 Deterioration of lodes in depth, 



90 



Diabase, 96 

 Diaz de Castillo, on the use of 



cement by the Indians, 254 

 Dicotclcs tajacu, 30 

 Diego, San, 324 

 Difference between artificial and 



natural selection, 207 

 Digitalis purpurea, 131 

 Diodorus Siculus, 368 

 Dioryte, 96 



Diorytic intrusive rocks, 96 

 Diphyrama sinyularis (Bates), 



315 



Diriangan, 358 

 Distribution of gold in quartz 



veins, 91 



Dogs, hairless, 205 

 Doleryte, 86 

 Domed nests, 291 

 Domingo, Santo, 60, 62, 85, 376 



commissioner's 



house at, 66 



mines at, 376 



- rain at, 104 



watershed of, 



104 

 Dove, M., on origin of cyclones, 



301 



Dragon-flies, 299 

 Drosera, 184 



Drought in Matacalpa, 288 

 Drowning man saved by being 



lassoed, 188 

 Du Tertre, 366 

 Ducks, 44 



Muscovy, 44 



whistlins, 44 



Duncan, Prof., on the submergence 

 of Isthmus of Darien in 

 Miocene times, 264 



Dytiscidse, 331, 332 



