512 



INDEX. 



Gravel, how far transported, 108 



of Patagonia, 75, 171 



Greenstone, fragments of, 257 

 Gryllus migratorius, 329 

 Guanaco, hubits of, 1C6 



, fossil allied genus, 172 



Guantajaya, mines of, 363 

 Guardiadel Monte, 118 

 Guasco, 348 

 Guasos of Chile, 258 

 Guava. imported into Tahiti, 403 

 Guinea-fowl, 5, 493 

 Gunnera scabra, 278 

 Gypsum, great beds of, 319 



in salt-lake, 66 



in Patagonian tertiary- 

 beds, 171 



at Iquique with salt, 364 



at Lima with shells, 369 



Hachette, M., on lightning-tubes, 60 



Hailstorm, 115 



Hall, Capt. Basil, on terraces of Co- 



quimbo, 343 

 Hare, Varying, 45 

 Head, Capt., on thistle-beds, 119, 124 

 Height of snow-line on Cordillera, 



244 



Henslow, Prof., on potatoes, 285 

 , on plants of Keeling 



Island, 454 

 Hermit crabs, 457 

 Hill, emitting a noise, 361 

 Himantopus, 114 

 Hogoleu barrier-reef, 469 

 Holes made by a bird, 95 

 Holman on drifted seeds, 454 

 Holuthuriae feeding on coral, 465 

 Hooker, Sir J., on the Cardoon, 119 



, Dr. J. D., on the Kelp, 239 



, on Galapageian 



plants, 392, 395 

 Horn, Cape, 211 

 Horner, Mr., on a calcareous deposit, 



10 



Horse-fly, 170 

 Horses difficult to drive, 110 



drop excrement on paths, 119 



killed by great droughts, 134 



, multiplication of, 233 



broken in, 151 ' 



Horse, powers of swimming of, 143 

 wild at the Falkland Islands, 



191 



Horse, fossil, 82, 130 



Horsemanship of the Gauchos, 153 

 195 



Hot springs of Cauquenes, 263 



Huacas, 368, 370 



Humboldt on burnished rocks, 1 2 



on the atmosphere in 



tropics, 32 



on frozen soil, 88 



on hybernation, 98 



on potatoes, 285 



on earthquakes and raiu, 



351 



on miasma, 366, 435 



Humming-birds of Rio de Janeiro, 32 



! of Chile, 271 



I Hybernation of animals, 98 



Hydrochserus capybara, 49 

 ! Hydrophobia, 353 

 | Hyla, 29 

 j Hymenophallus, 32 



Jackson, Col., on frozen snow, 325 

 Jaguar, habits of, 135 

 Jajud, mines of, 259 

 James Island, Galapagos Archipe- 

 lago, 376 



Juan Fernandez, volcano of, 310 

 , flora of, 392 



Ibis melanops, 1(35 



Ice, prismatic structure of, 325 



Icebergs, 187, 224, 246 to 251 



Incas' bridge, 334, 356 



Incrustations on coast rocks, 9, 12 



Indian fossil remains, 370 



Indians, attacks of, 64, 77, 129 



, Patagouiaus, 231 



, Araucarians, 299 



of the Pampas, 100 



of Valdivia, 299 



, perforated stones used by, 267 



, powers of tracking, 328 



, grave of, 169, 187 



, ruins of houses of, in Cor- 

 dillera, 356, 368 



, antiquities of, in La Plata 



46, 105 



decrease in numbers, 104 



Infection, 435 



Infusoria in dust in the Atlantic, 5 



in the sea, 15, 162 



in Pampas, 82, 130 



in Patagonia, 170 



