INDEX. 



ABBOTT, Mr., on spiders, 26. 



Aborigines banished from Van Diemen% 

 Land, 325. 



of Australia, 316-336. 



Abrolhos, n. 



Absence of trees in Pampas, 34. 



Aconcagua, volcano of, 184, 213. 



Actinia, stinging species, 337. 



Africa, Southern part desert, yet supports 

 large animals, 61. 



Agouti, habits of, 50. 



Ague common in Peru, 266. 



Albemarle Island, 273. 



Allan, Dr., on Diodon, n. 



on Holuthurise, 338. 



Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, 264, 



stratified, in Andes, 242. 



Amblyrhynchus, 280, 284, 288. 



Anas, species of, 144. 



Animalculse, see Infusoria. 



Antarctic islands, 180. 



Antipodes, 303. 



Ants at Keeling island, 330. 



in Brazil, 25. 



Apires, or miners, 246. 



Aplysia, 5. 



Apple-trees, 216. 



Aptenodytes demersa, 144. 



Areas of alternate movements in the Pacific 

 and Indian oceans, 350. 



Armadilloes, habits of, 69. 



fossil animals allied to, na, 193. 



Arrow-heads, ancient, 76, 259. 



Ascension, 358. 



Aspalax, blindness of, 38. 



Athene, 51, 90. 



Atolls, 339. 



A.ttagis, 68. 



Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, 85. 



Audubon, M., on smelling-power of car- 

 rion-hawks, 133. 



Australia, 313. 

 Australian barrier, 345. 

 Azara on spiders, 26, 28. 



on rain in La Plata, 34. 



on range of carrion-hawks, 43. 



on habits of carrion-hawks, 41. 



on a thunder-storm, 45. 



on ostrich-eggs, 66. 



on bows and arrows, 76. 



on new plants springing up, 85. 



on great droughts, 96. 



on hydrophobia, 257. 



RACHMAN, Mr., on carrion-hawks, 134, 

 Bahia Blanca, 54-76. 

 Bahia, Brazil, 9. 



scenery of, 361. 



Balbi on coral reefs, 342. 



Bald Head, Australia, 327. 



Ballenar, Chile, 253. 



Banda Oriental, 30, 103. 



Hanks' s Hill, 152. 



Harking-bird, 209. 



Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 230. 



Bathurst, Australia, 314. 



Bats, vampire, 16. 



Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 303. 



Beads', hill of, 107. 



Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuegc, 137. 



Beech-trees, 170, 204. 



Beetles alive in sea, 115. 



dung-feeders, 357. 



at St. Julian, 123. 



in brackish water, i& 



on a fungus, 24. 



Behring's Straits, fossils of, 95. 



Bell of Quillota, 185. 



Benchuca, 240. 



Berkeley, Rev. J., on Conferva, II. 



on Cyttaria, 177, 



Sound, 136. 



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