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INDEX 



Orders, 133 ; temperature, 111 ; 

 ice, barriers and bergs, 111, drawing 

 of, 62, nature and behaviour of, 

 127 sq. ; Journal, q.v. ; storms, 

 worse than tropical, 245; moun- 

 tains and Himalayan range, 305 



Antarctic Exploration, Hooker pre- 

 pares for, i. 32, 37 sq. ; appoint- 

 ment, 44 sq. ; Royal Society in- 

 structions, 44; equipment, 46 aq., 

 ii. 478 ; previous explorers, i. 51 ; 

 scientific furtherance, 49; Ross's 

 voyages, object of, 48 sq., magnetic 

 work, 48, 95, 99, 105 n., 110, and 

 results, 52, 110, 111, a matter of 

 poetic justice, ib., summarised, 52- 

 3 ; results of his own investigations 

 lost, i. 56, ii. 441 ; first voyage to 

 the South, 109 sqq. difficulties, 

 especially for sailing ships, 110 and 

 note, 116 ; per contra, 111 ; few 

 hardships, 111 ; a seaman's story, 

 115 sq. ; second voyage to the 

 South, 124 sq. ; perilous adven- 

 tures, 125", 126 ; third voyage to 

 the South, 139 sq. ; success wel- 

 comed in England, 127 ; the For- 

 lorn Hope of Science, 148 



ii. 273, 361 ; preliminary inspec- 

 tion of the pack, 362 ; the oldest 

 explorer, 16. ; hardships compared 

 with Boer War, 371 sq. ; bird speci- 

 mens, 353, 382 ; Scott's first expe- 

 dition, 438 ; use of a captive balloon, 

 440 sq., as by DrygalsM, ib. ; end- 

 less work for a naturalist, 441 ; 

 comparison with Arctic, ib. ; com- 

 mittee on, 444 ; drawings exhibited, 

 457 ; organisms, Ross and Hooker 

 sole collectors of, on the Erebus, 

 477 ; his position exceptional, 478 ; 

 lack of appliances, ib. ; Treasury 

 grant, 479 ; scurvy, 479 



Apothecaries Co. Medal, examines 

 for, i. 385 



Apteryx, its supposed food, i. 104 



Araucaria, i. 97; fossil, 462; at 

 Kew, ii. 174 



Arber, Dr. E. A. Newell, ii. 22 n., 382 

 Letters to: Primitive Angios- 

 perms and arrangement of the 

 Genera Plantanim, ii. 22 ; on the 

 fossil Tasmanian tree first described 

 by J. D. H., 455 



Archer, Wm., F.L.S., dedication to, 

 see under Fl. Antarctica 



Arctic Plants, range of, i. 437 ; 

 work on, 534; ii. 18, 26-31'; 

 common to Antarctic, 140 ; Out- 

 lines of the Distribution of, 205 

 and note, 423, 425 



Arenaria rupifraga, highest known 

 plant, i. 325 and note 



Argemone, ii. 215 



Argyll, eighth Duke of, i. 359 n. ; 

 support of Flora Indica, 359 ; 

 as Secretary for India, ii. 83, and 

 the K. C.S.I., 146 sq. ; criticism 

 of his Natural Theology, 83, 118, 

 and his ' Reign of Law,' 114 ; Man 

 and a pre-ordained evolution, 124 ; 

 support against Ayrton, 168 ; on 

 Darwin's theory of coral reefs, 

 342 ; Life of, 462 ; unique speci- 

 men given by, ib 



Aristocracy and Natural Selection, 

 ii. 38, 39, 40 



Aristolochia, on his memorial, ii. 481 



Armstrong, Lord, liberality, 136 and 

 note 



Arnold, Dr. Joseph, ii. 475 and note 



Arnott, G. A. W., i. 31 and note, 

 106, 200 



Arran, i. 31 



Arrow, the, i. 73 n. 



Art, H.'s inherited love for, i. 8, 9; 

 153 sq.'; ii. 193, 435 ; his grand- 

 father's collection, i. 4, and the 

 Wallace Gallery, ib., ii. 345; 

 pictures at Edinburgh, i. 203-4; 

 pictures in his own possession, 

 ii. 435 



Artemisia, ii. 214 



Arun, River, i. 304 



Arundinella, i. 466 



Ascension, i. 53, 217 ; flora of, ii. 

 101, 234 



Aster -omphalos, i. 59 



Atgarrobo, ii. 5. 



Athrotaxis, ii. 294 



Atlas, the Great, an early dream, 

 i. 6 ; ascent of, ii. 93, 94 



Atoms, Tyndall's remark, ii. 112, 

 359, and Huxley's rejoinder, 359 ; 

 conception of, impossible to formu- 

 late, 113 



Auckland Islands. See Lord Auck- 

 land Islands 



Auckland, Lord, i. 217, 218, 248, 262, 

 272 ; death of, 329 



Aurora, Dr. Mawson's ship, i. 51 



Aurora Borealis, in India, i. 238 sq. 



