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GENERAL INDEX. 



A. 



Abbott, Mr. W. J., B.N., shooting Bird of 



Paradise, 378. 

 Accena ascendens, 116, 165, 167, 191. 

 Acacia Koa, 497. 

 Acrocladia Mamillata, 307. 

 Admiralty Islands, the, 448 ; Fruit-pigeons 



of the, 386 ; natives of the, 451-80. 

 iEolian formation, at Bermuda, 21 ; in ice- 

 bergs, 240. 

 Agassiz, Prof., on deep-sea animals, 586. 

 Agaricus phylicigena, 136. 

 Agouti at St. Thomas, 14. 

 Agrostis Antarctica, 194. 

 Ainos, 496. 

 Aizoon canariense, 46. 



Albatross, origin of word, 129 ; Great White, 

 the, 171, 180, 254 ; nesting of the, 130, 172 ; 

 Sooty, the, 180, 183, 254; flight of the, 

 570; diffusion of plants by, 522; range of, 

 522. 

 Albino Fijian, 335. 

 Alcyonarians, phosphorescent, in deep sea, 



590 ; various at Philippines, 404. 

 Aleurites triloba, 497. 



Algae, at St. Paul's Kocks, 76 ; in hot water, 

 36, 383,416 ; parasitic in Foraminifera, 293 ; 

 parasitic in corals, 581. 

 Allopora, miniacea, 531; nobilis, 530; pro- 

 funda, 531. 

 Alpine, floras and deep-sea faunas compared, 

 585; plants, probable, of New Guinea, 434. 

 Alsophila Takitiensis, 518. 

 Amalopteryx maritima, 181, 192, 558. 

 Ambeknoh Kiver, the, 432. 

 Amboina, 387. 

 Amphioxus lanceolatus, 361. 

 Amsterdam Island, 135, 170. 

 Anas super ciliosa, 372. 

 Anchor, the ship's broken, 550. 

 Andes, the, not well seen from the coast, 543. 

 Angiopteris evecta, 518. 

 Anaus stolidus, 68, 123, 349,479; melanogenys, 



68, 123. 

 Antelopes, habits of, 150. 

 Antennarius, nest of, 567. 

 Antipodes Island, parroquets at, 211. 

 Ant-lion, 50. 



Ants, Leaf-cutting, habits of, 104 ; curious 

 relation of, »to plants, 389 ; on board the 

 " Challenger," 593. 



Api Island, 342. 

 Apium australe, 111, 115. 

 Aplysia, 48. 



Aptznodytes longirostris, 176, 197. 

 Aptcryx Amtralis, attitude in sleeping, 125. 

 Arafura Sea, 366. 

 Areca, 351. 



Archer, Mr. W., on algae in hot springs, 36. 

 Arctocep/mlus, 204. 

 Arenga saccharifera, 392. 

 Argus, origin of story of, 424. 

 Argynnis, 134. 

 Armadillo, the Pigmy, 146. 

 Arrows, leaf, at Kb Islands, 381 ; poisoned, 

 at Api, 346; at the Aru Islands, 374; 

 of Humboldt Bay, 444. 

 Art, native, in the Admiralty Islands, 470. 

 Artamus leucopygialis, 353. 

 Aru Islands, 366 ; bows and arrows of, 374 ; 

 houses of, 370, 374 ; ornaments of, 371 ; 

 dredgings off, 589. 

 Arundo donax, hedges of, 33. 

 Ascension Island, 561 ; migration of turtles 



at, 133. 

 Ascidian, remarkable deep-sea, 587. 

 Aspidium mohrioides, 167. 

 Aspleniiim, Nidus, 308, 518, 519 ; obtusatum, 110. 

 Asthenosoma, 13. 

 Astraiidse, 307. 

 Astrcea, 360, 362, 385. 

 Astylus subviridis, 531, 533. 

 Atlantic Ocean, form of the sea-bed of the, 



584. 

 Atya sulcatipes, 61. 



Australian Blacks, 353; camp of, 354; caves 

 middens, and drawings of, New South 

 Wales, 273 ; description of clergyman by. 

 411; English of, 359; food of, 357; at 

 Government Keserve, 261 ; habits and 

 utensils of, 355 ; ideas of after life, 359 ; 

 method of smoking of, 356 ; nakedness of, 

 359 ; tracks of, on trees, 258. 

 AzoreUa, selago, 165, 167, ' 168, 191, 224; 



trifoliata, 547. 

 Azores, The, 29. 



B. 



Baboons, habits of, 143. 

 Baker, Mr. J. G., on ferns, 393.' 

 Balanus, 433. 



