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INDEX. 



Mammalia, fossil, 81, 127, 130, 155, 



173, 371 

 Man, antiquity of, 358 



, fossil remains of, 370 



, body frozen, 249 



, fear of, an acquired instinct, 



400 



, extinction of races, 435, 448 



Mares killed for their hides, 1 54 

 Mare's flesh eaten by troops, 101 

 Mastodon, 127, 130 

 Matter, granular, movements in, 100 

 Mauritius, 483 

 Maypu river, 316 

 Megalonyx, 81, 131 

 Megatherium, 81, 83, 131 

 Meudoza, climate of, 323 



, 330 



Mexico, elevation of, 132 



Miasmata, 365, 435 



Mice inhabit sterile places, 360 



, number of, in America, 49 



, how transported, 288, 378 



different on opposite sides of 



Andes, 326 



of the Galapagos, 378 



of Ascension, 492 



Millepora, 464 



Mills for grinding ores, 366 



Mimosse, 25 



Mimus, 54, 394, 399 



Miners, condition of, 260, 265, 339, 

 346 



Mines, 260, 340, 346 



, how discovered, 317 



Missionaries at New Zealand, 425 



Mitchell, Sir T., on valleys of Aus- 

 tralia, 438 



Mocking-bird, 54, 394, 399 



Molina, omits description of certain 

 birds, 271 



Molothrus, habits of, 52 



Monkeys with prehensile tails, 28 



Monte Video, 40, 142 



Moresby, Capt., on a great crab, 

 463 



on coral-reefs, 479 



Mount Sarmiento, 233, 241 



Tarn, 234 



Mountains, elevation of, 312 



Movements in granular matter, 100 



Mud, chalk-like, 465 



— — disturbed by earthquake. 306 



Mules, 315 



Muniz, Sig., on niata cattle, 145 

 Murray, Mr., on spiders, 161 

 Mylodon, 81, 131, 155 

 Myopotamus Coipus, 287 



Negress with goitre, 314 

 Negro, Rio, 63, 149 



lieutenant, 76 



New Caledonia, reef of, 469, 471, 

 477 



Zealand, 417 



Niata cattle, 145 



Noises from a hill, 361 



Noses, ceremony of pressing, 423 



Nothura, 45 



Notopod, crustacean, 161 



Nulliporffi, incrustations like, 9 



protecting reefs, 498 



Octopus, habits of, 7 

 Oily coating on sea, 17 

 Olfersia, 10 

 Opetiorhynchus, 289 

 Opuntia Galapageia, 374 



Darwinii, 165 



, 261 



Orange-trees self-sown, 120 

 Ores, gold, 266 

 Omithorhynchus, 441 

 Ornithology of Galapagos, 378, 394 

 Osomo, volcano of, 273, 275, 291 

 Ostrich, habits of, 43, 89 

 Ostrich's eggs, 113 

 Otaheite, 403 

 Otter, 287 

 Ova in sea, 17 

 Oven-bird, 95 

 Owen, Capt., on a drought in Africa, 



133 



, Professor, on the Capybara, 50 



fossil quadrupeds, 



81 to 84, 130, 155 

 nostriis of the 



Gallinazo, 185 

 Owl of Pampas, 70, 125 

 Oxyurus, 237, 289 

 Oysters, gigantic, 170 



Paint, white, 221 

 Pallas on Siberia, 67 

 Palm-trees in La Plata, 46 



in Chile, 256 



, south limit of, 244 



Palms absent at Galapagos, 375 



