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INDEX. 



Hybernation of animals on the 



Peak of Tknerife, 6. 

 Hydrocolyle, 117. 

 Hydnophyitiiii forinicarimi, 336. 

 Hydrocoralliiice, 463. 

 Hydrophidce, 413. 

 Hydrosaiinis luannoratiis, 350. 

 Hyuienophylluni, 478 ; tunbi-idgense, 



145- 

 Hynes, Mr. J., R.N., adventure with 



a rat, 515. 

 Hypsiprininiis, 233. 

 Hyrax capensis, habits of, 124. 



I. 



Imithiiia, 493. 



Icebergs at Crozets, 158; bi-tabu- 

 lar, 204; colour of, 212; cleavage 

 of ice of, 209 ; dimensions of, 

 210; Jirst sighted, 201 ; foreign 

 matter on, 210; height of, 206; 

 run into by ship, 217; stratified 

 structure of, 207 ; sunset effects 

 on, 214; typical form of, and 

 immersion of, 202 ; wash lines 

 on, 203. 



Ice, pack, 215 ; stained by diatoms, 

 216; stream, 215. 



Ichneumon, 131. 



Indulgences, Papal, sold in Philip- 

 pines, 357. 



Ilo Ilo, pile-dwellings at, 355, 344. 



Inaccessible Island, 99; German 

 settlers at, loo; penguins at, 

 102 ; other birds at, 105 ; wild 

 goats and pigs at, 107. 



Insects, ancestor of, 137; of Heard 

 Island, 199; Pelagic, 495; at 

 summits of volcanoes, 331 ; of 

 St. Paul's Rocks, 62 ; swarms 

 of, blown off lands, 72; of Tristan 

 da Cunha, 1 15. 



Inter-breeding in islands, 443. 



Ipottiaa pes Caproc, 16, 49, 68, 263, 



297. 374- 

 Iron, clamoured for by savages, 



376, 389- 



Islands, oceanic, necessity for in- 

 vestigation of, 5I9- 



Itch, Vegetable, the, 327, 380. 



Jack fruit, 77, 338. 

 Jacobs, T. J., on the Admiralty 

 Islands, 389. 



Japan, 416. 



Japanese picture books, 427 ; sight 



seeing, 418 ; women, drink of, 



428. 

 Jatropha, auras, 50, 55 )gossypifolia, 



67 ; tnatiihot, 88 ; iirens, 68, 72. 

 Jeffreys, Mr. Gwyn, on phospho- 

 rescence, 512. 

 Jew's-harp, of Admiralty Islanders, 



407 ; of Lutaos, 346. 

 Juan Fernandez, 466 ; Fur Seal 



of, goat of, 517. 

 Jukes, Mr., on calcareous rock, 18; 



on Raine Island, 299. 

 Jiii'i'^'-ni^ bnrbadensis. 20; breri- 



folia, 31. 



K. 



Kaava, at Tonga, 248; drinking, 



277 ; mode of preparing, effects 



of, etc., 268. 

 Kandavu Island, 260. 

 Ke Islands, 327. 

 Kentia, 279 ; exorhiza, 254. 

 Kerguelen's Land, 39, 160, 

 Kerguelen Cabbage, described, 145, 



166; seeds of, eaten by teal, 165. 

 Kerguelen Plateau, 147. 

 Kermadec Islands, 242 ; dredgings 



off, 511. 

 Kidder, J. H., M.D., on Cltionis, 



182 ; on the flora of the Crozets, 



159. 

 KiLAUEA, crater of, 432. 

 Kingfisher, at St. Jago Island, 49 ; 



jewels made of feathers of the, 



362; marine habits of a, 241. 

 King, Kalakaua, 431 ; Thackom- 



BAU, 275 ; George of Tonga, 276, 

 Kioto, 420. 



Kirk, Mr. I"., on the Rata, 241. 

 Kitchen middens, at the Cape of 



Good Hope, 127 ; Australian, 



236; at Fiji, 273; at Magellan's 



Straits, 479. 

 Kites, mode of feeding of, 49. 

 Knysna Forest, the, 139. 



Labillardiere, M., 389. 

 Labrtis, 64. 



Lagenophora conimcfsoniana, 117. 

 Land crabs, catching, 464; killing 



rabbits, 487 ; young of, 56. 

 Land Planarians, 77, 133, 242, 428) 



