INDEX. 



373 



GALAPAGOS Archipelago, 270; natural 



history of, 274. 

 belongs to American Zoology, 275, 



287. 



Gale of wind, 157, 204. 

 Gall egos River, fossil bones at, 134. 

 Gallinazo, 42. 

 Gauchos, 32, 120. 



character of, izx. 



live on meat, 84. 



Gay, M., on floating islands, 193. 



on shells in brackish water, 16. 



Geese at the Falkland Islands, 144. 

 Geographical distribution of American 



animals, 94, 237. 



of frogs, 278. 



of fauna of Galapagos, 286. 

 Geology of Cordillera, 232, 241. 



of Patagonia, 123, 131. 



of St. Tago, 4. 



of St. Paul, 6. 



of B. Blanca, 60. 



of Pampas, 93. 



of Brazil, 9. 



Georgia, climate of, 180. 

 Geospiza, 276, 288. 



Gill, Mr., on an upheaved river-bed, 261. 

 Gillies, Dr., on the Cordillera, 235. 

 Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, 162, 177, 



in Cordillera, 236. 



in lat. 46 40', 177. 



Glow-worms, 22. 



Goats, destructive to vegetation at St. 

 Helena, 356. 



bones of, iai. 



Goitre, 228. 



Gold-washing, 193. 



Good Success Bay, 148. 



Gossamer spider, 116. 



Gould, Mr., on the Calodera, 90. 



on birds of Galapagos, 276. 



Granite mountains, Tres Monies, 26. 



of Cordillera, 233. 



Graspus, 8. 



Gravel, how far transported, 78. 



of Patagonia, 54, 124. 



Greenstone, fragments of, 187, 

 Gryllus migratorius, 240, 

 .Guanaco, habits of, 120. 

 fossil allied genus, 125, 

 Guantajaya, mines of, 264, 

 Guardia del Monte, 85. 

 Guasco, 253. 

 Guasos of Chile, 187. 

 Guava, imported into Tahiti, 393. 

 Guinea-fowl, 3, 359. 

 Gunnera scabra, 203. 

 Gypsum, great beds of, 333. 



Gypsum in salt-lake, 47. 



in Patagonian tertiary-beds, 124. 

 at Iquique with salt, 265. 



at Lama with shells, 268. 



HACHETTE, Mr., on lightning-tubes, 44. 



Hailstorm, 83. 



Hall, Capt. Basil, on terraces of Co- 



quimbo, 249. 

 Hare, Varying, 33. 

 Head, Capt., on thistle-beds, 86, 89. 

 Height of snow-line on Cordillera, 177. 

 Henslow, Prof., on potatoes, 207. 



on plants of Keeling Island, 330. 



Hermit crabs, 332. 

 Hill, emitting a noise, 263. 

 Himantopus, 82. 

 Hogoleu barrier-reef, 342. 

 Holes made by a bird, 69. 

 Holman on drifted seeds, 330. 

 Holuthurise feeding on coral, 338. 

 Hooker, Sir J., on the Cardoon, 86. 



Dr. J. D., on the Kelp, 173. 



on Galapageian plants, 286, 288. 



Horn, Cape, 153. 



Homer, Mr., on a calcareous deposit, 7. 



Horse-fly, 123. 



Horses difficult to drive, 79. 



drop excrement on paths, 186. 



killed by great droughts, 96. 



multiplication of, 168. 



broken in, 109. 



Horse, powers of swimming of, 103. 



wild at the Falkland Islands, 138. 



fossil, 59, 93. 



Horsemanship of the Gauchos, no, 141. 

 Hot springs of Cauquenes, 191. 

 Huacas, 268, 269. 

 Humboldt on burnished rocks, 9. 

 on the atmosphere in tropics, 33. 



on frozen soil, 64. 



on hybernation, 71. 



on potatoes, 207. 



on earthquakes and rain, 255. 



on miasma, 266, 316. 



Humming-birds of Rio de Janeiro, 33. 



Hybernation of animals, 71. 

 Hydrochaerus capybara, 36. 

 Hydrophobia, 257. 

 Hyla, 21. 

 Hymenophallus, 24. 



JACKSON, Col., on frozen snow, 336. 

 Jaguar, habits of, 97. 

 Jajuel, mines of, 188. 

 James Island, Galapogos Archipelago, 

 274. 



