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INDEX 



Hooker, Sir Joseph, on the Galapagos 

 flora, 287 

 on affinities of St. Helena plants, 300 

 on peculiar British plants, 3(30, 303 

 on the flora of New Zealand, 488 

 on proportion of temperate and 



tropical Australian floras, 40J 

 on current of vegetation from north 



to south, 510 

 on supposed occurrence of Australian 

 plants in England in the Tertiary 

 period, 518 

 Home, Mr. John, on ice-sheet covering 



the Isle of Man, 115 

 Hull, Professor, on Permian breccias in 



Ireland indicating ice-action, 201 

 Humming-birds, restricted ranges of, 16 

 Hutton, Captain, on struthious birds of 



New Zealand, 479 

 Huxley, Professor, on geological time, 

 211 

 on European origin of African animals, 

 419 

 Hyomoschus, 27 

 Hyracoidea, restricted range of, 30 



Ice-action, what evidences of, during the 

 Tertiarj' period, 178 

 indications of ancient, 200 

 Ice-borne rocks, a test of a glacial epoch, 

 176 

 in Miocene of N. Italy, 178 

 in Eocene of Alps, 178 

 in Eocene of Carpathians and Apen- 

 nines, 179 

 absence of, in English and N. Ameri- 

 can Tertiaries, 180 

 Ice-cap, why improbable or impossible, 



101 

 Iceland, a continental island, 450 

 Icteridaj, 50 

 IguanidiB, 50 



Indian birds in Formosa, 407 

 Indian Ocean as a source of heat in Ter- 

 tiary times, 102 

 Indian genera of j)lants in Australia, 



492 

 Indicator, distribution of, 25 

 Insectivora in Madagascar, 417 

 Insects, dispersal of, 77 



of the Miocene period, 77 

 restriction of range of, 78 

 of the Azores, 253 

 of Bermuda, 269 

 of the Galapagos, 284 

 of St. Helena, 298 

 of the Sandwich Islands, 318 

 peculiar British, 344 

 of Celebes, peculiarities of, 402 

 scarcity of, in New Zealand, 505 

 Insular faunas, summary of conclusions as 



to, 530, 542 

 Interglacial warm periods on the continent 

 and in North America, 121 



Interglacial periods and their probable 



character, 152 

 Interglacial periods will not occur during 

 an epoch of extreme glaciation, 155 

 Interglacial climates never very warm, 



159 

 Ireland, poverty of, in reptiles, 339 

 in plants, 339 

 peculiar fishes of, 342 

 plants of, not found in Great Britain, 

 364 

 Islands, classification of, 242 



importance of, in studv of distribu- 

 tion, 241 

 remote, how stocked with plants 



and animals, 261 

 submerged between Madagascar and 

 India, 425 

 Isle of Wight, peculiar beetle of, 351, 

 Jsatis tinctoria, on railway bank, 513 

 Ithaginis, 26 



J. 



Japan, zoological features of, 393 



mammalia of, 394 



birds of, 396 



birds peculiar to, 398 



birds in distant areas, 399 

 Japan and Formosa, 391 

 Java, fuuna of, 382 



Asiatic species in, 384 

 Java and Borneo, past changes of, 385 

 Jays, distribution of species of, 20 



of Europe and Japan, 67 

 JefTi-eys, Dr. Gwyn, on shallow-water 

 mollusca in chalk, 92 



on fossil sliallow-water shells in deep 

 water, 337 

 Jones, 3Ir., on migration of birds to 

 Bermuda, 268 



on vegetation of the Bermudas, 272 

 Juan Fernandez, flora and fauna of, 287 

 Judd, Prof. J. W., on absence of glacia- 

 tion in east Eurojie, 139 



on glaciation of the Alps produced by 

 elevation, 179 

 Juniperus barbadensis, 272 

 Jura, travelled blocks on, 110 

 Jurassic warm Arctic climate, 202 



K. 



Keeling Islands, animals of, 286 



Kirk, Mr. T., on temporary introduced 



plants, 515 

 Knowledge of various kinds required for 



studv of geographical distribution, 



7,9' 



Lagopus scoticus, 340 



Laud as a barrier to ocean-curreuts, 150 



