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INDEX. 



Earthquake at Valdivia, 219. 

 causes of, 226. 



effect of, on springs, 192. 



on bottom of sea, 223. 



effects of, on rocks, 178, 220. 



effects of, on sea, 219, 221, 222. 



effects of, on a river-bed, 261. 



line of vibration of, 223. 



on S. W. coast, 178. 



tossing fragments from the ground, 



143- 



twisting movement of, 224. 

 Eggs of Doris, 145. 

 Ehrenberg, Prof., on Atlantic dust, 4. 

 on infusoria in Pampas, 59, 93. 

 j in the- open sea, 117. 



in Patagonia, 124. 



^ in Fuegian paint, 160. 

 on infusoria in coral mud, 338. 



in tuff at Ascension, 360. 



on phosphorescence of the sea, 



117. 



on noises from a hill, 263. 

 Eimeo, view of, 296. 

 Elater, springing powers of, 22. 

 Electricity of atmosphere within Andes, 



it, weight of, 63. 

 Elevated shells, 61, 93, 124, 184, 216, 225, 



249, 260, 268. 



Elevation of coasts of Chile, 185, aia, 225, 

 227, 241, 249, 260. 



B. Blanca, 59. 



Patagonia, 124, 270. 



Pampas, 93. 



mountain-chains, 227. 



Cordillera, 225, 230, 233. 



fringing-reefs, 347. 



Peru, 268. 



within human period, 270. 



Entomology of the Galapagos Archipel- 

 ago, 285, 286, 288. 



Brazil, 24. 



Patagonia, 123, 240. 



Tierra del Fuego, 172. 



Keeling Island, 332. 



St. Helena, 357. 



Entre Rios, geology of, 93. 

 Epeira, habits of, 26, 28. 



Erratic blocks, how transported, 180. 

 absent in intertropical countries, 180. 



on plains of Santa Cruz, 130. 



of Tierra del Fuego, 180. 



Estancia, value of, 104. 



Extermination of species and races, 127, 



316, 325. 



Extinction of shells at St Helena, 355. 

 of species, causes of, 125. 



Extinction of man m New South WaieS, 



316, 326. 

 Eyes of tucutuco and mole, 38. 



FALCONER, Dr., on the Sivatherium, 

 105. 



Jesuit, on the Indians, 75. 



on rivers in Pampas, 77. 



Jesuit, on natural enclosures, 84. 



Falkland Islands, 136. 

 birds tame at, 291. 



absence of trees at, 35. 



carrion-hawks of, 41. 



wild cattle and horses of, 137. 



climate of, 176. 

 peat of, 208. 

 Fat, quantity eaten, 84. 

 Fear, an acquired instinct, 292. 

 Februa, 24. 

 Fennel, run wild, 86. 

 Ferguson, Dr., on miasma, 266. 

 Fern-trees, 177, 273. 

 Fernando Noronha, 8, 272. 

 Fields of dead coral, 335. 

 Fire, art of making, 141, 298. 

 Fish, eating coral, 338. 



of Galapagos, 284. 



emitting harsh sound, 98. 



Flamingoes, 48. 



Fleas, 251. 



Floods after droughts, 97. 



clear after snow, 231. 



Flora of the Galapagos, 273, 288, 289. 



of Keeling Island, 331. 



of St. Helena, 354. 



Flustraceae, 145. 



Forests, absence of, in La Plata, 34. 



of Tierra del Fuego, 151, 176, 207 



of Chiloe; 176, 197, 201, 213. 



of Valdivia, 216, 218. 



of New Zealand, 311. 



of Australia, 315. 



Fossil Mammalia, 59, 93, 94, ria, 125. 



earthenware, 270. 



Fox of the Falkland Islands, 140. 

 of Chiloe, 203. 

 Friendly Archipelago, 204, 

 Frogs, noises of, 21. 

 bladders of, 279. 



and toads, not found on oceanic 



islands, 278. 

 Frozen soil, 64, 181. 

 Fruit-trees, southern limit of, 177. 

 Fucus giganteus, 173. 

 Fuegians, 148-170. 

 Fulgurites, 43. 

 Fungus, edible, 171, 

 Furnarius, 69, 



