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Index 



Faculty of University of Buenos 

 Aires, 287; of University of La 

 Plata, 242, 287; of National 

 Museum, La Plata, 255 



Fallieres, President, 13 



Farmers, 144 



Farmer, small, in Argentina, 239 



Farrington, O. C., 38 



Fauna (mammalian) of Antilles, 

 340; of South America, 204, 353 



Fennel, European, 225 



Fernandez, Serior Miguel, 102 



Ferns, 71, 303 (see Tree-ferns) 



Ferrocarril del Sud, 103 



"Fiddles," 18 



Fields, 261 



Finback whales, 28 



Fire-arms, merchant of, 25 



Fire-flies, 267, 312 



First-class passengers, 19 



First Pan- American Congress, 253 



Fishermen, 318 



Fishes, 30, 49; disease of, 99, 178 



Fish-markets, 339 



Flat lands, attractive features, 

 223; vegetation of, 224 



Flax, 264, 285 



Flocks of sheep, 262 



Flora, of Argentina, 155; of Aus- 

 tralia, 155; of South America, 



352 



Flower, Sir William H., 115 



Flying-fishes, 30, 3 1, 339 



Fog, adored, 147; on mountains, 



277, 304 



Food-supplies in Argentina, 189 



Foot-and-mouth disease, 155 



Forest reservations, 271 



Forests, thorny, 272; tropical, 71 



Fossil mammals, 119; horse, 210; 

 "potatoes," 198 



Fossils from Brazil, 209 



Francia, Dictator, 245 



Francis Joseph, Emperor of Aus- 

 tria, 13 



Freesias, no 



Fremiet, Emmanuel, n 



French Guiana, 320 



French influence in South America, 

 368 



French Revolution, 140 



French in Trinidad, 329 



Fresh- water snails, 232 



Kricdrich Leopold, Graf Stolberg, 



quoted, 16 



Fruit imported from Europe, 189 

 Fuel, 53, 66, 169 

 Furnarius rufus, 279 



Gallardo, Dr. Angel, 244 

 Garden-truck, poems in exchange 



for, v 



Garden, in swamp, 181 

 Garrett, Hon. John W., 134, 150, 



242, 252, 258 

 Gas-well in delta of Parana, 167, 



177 



Gaviotas, 172 

 Geologic ages, 3, 4 

 Geological Society of America, i, 



2 



Georgetown, British Guiana, 321 



German Emperor, 12, 13 



''German peril," 366, 367 



Giant cacti, 270 



Gibraltar, 316 



Ginger, 340 



Glyptodon, 199, 203; carapace of, 

 utilized as a bathtub, 204 



Gnecco, Sefior, 182, 185 



Goats, 84 



Goatsuckers, 331 



Goethe, quoted, 166 



Golden apples, 340 



Golfo del Diabolo, 293 



Gonzalez, Dr. Joaquin V., Presi- 

 dent of University of La Plata, 

 123, 288 



Gould, Dr. Benjamin A., in 



Gourliea decor ticans, 270 



Grain elevators at Buenos Aires, 

 101 ; San Nicolas, 265 



Granada, 52 



Grasses, European, 227 



Grasshoppers, swarm of, 279 



Greece, 356 



Green, brilliant display of, at 

 Trinidad, 322 



Ground-sloths, 206 



Grypotherium, 213-220 



Guacharo (Stealornis steatornis), 



331 



Guachos, 238 



Guadeloupe, 348 

 Guanaco, 149 

 Guaruja, 80 



