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INDEX 



the result of F. Miiller's writings, ii. 

 358 ; account of Florida Coral-reefs, 

 ii. 147 ; letters to, ii. 147, 197, 198 ; 

 visits Down, ii. 357, 358 

 Agassiz, L., biographical note on, ii. 

 175; attack on Origin, i. 159; 

 Darwin's criticism of book on Brazil, 

 i. 305 ; Darwin's opinion of, i. 104, 

 264, 459 ; views on creation of 

 species, i. 262; on geographical dis- 

 tribution, i. 309 ; Methods of Study 

 by, i. 258 : misstatement of Darwin's 

 views, i. 258 ; Walsh on, i. 258 ; 

 Etudes S7ir les Glaciers, i. 476 ; ii. 



148 ; Darwin on glacier work of, 

 ii. 148, 159 ; on glaciers in Ceara 

 Mts., ii, 161 ; glacier-ice-lake theory 

 of Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, ii. 

 151, 172, 175, 181, 187; on glacier 

 moraines, ii. 148 ; on rock-cavities 

 formed by glacier-cascades, ii. 148, 



149 ; on Darwin's theory, ii. 160 ; 

 on Geology of the Amazons, ii. 159, 

 160; doubts recent upheaval of 

 Patagonia, ii. 164 ; mentioned, i. 68, 

 422 ; ii. 358 



Age of the world, i. 164 ; ii. 7,211,212 

 Aggressive plants, introduction of, ii. 



2 3 



Agricultural Society, experiments on 



potatoes, i. 373 

 Airy, H. letter to, ii. 107, 108. 

 Albemarle Island, Darwin's coll. of 



plants from, i. 402 ; volcanoes of, ii. 



127 

 Aldrovanda, ii. 284 

 Alerse (" Alerce "), occurrence in 



Chiloe, i. 400 

 Algce, movement of male-cells to 



female organ, ii. 344 

 Alisma, F. Miiller's observations on, ii. 



357, 363 ; submerged flowers of, ii. 



375 

 Ahsma macropkyllt, circumnutation of, 



ii. 345, 346 

 Allbutt, Prof. Clifiord, on sperm- 

 cells, ii. 76 

 Allen, Grant, review by Romanes of 



his Physiological Aesthetics, i. 368 

 Allen, J. A., on colours of birds, i 357 ; 



on mammals and birds of Florida, 



i. 384 

 Allogamy, use of term, ii. 413 

 Almond, seedling peaches resembling, 



i. 279 

 Alopecurus pratensis, fertilisation of, 



ii. 291 

 Alpine floras, Arctic and, i. 409 ; of 



Azores, Canaries and Madeira, i. 



407 ; absence of, in southern islands, 



i. 410 ; Ball on origin of flora, ii. 

 423 ; Darwin's work on, i. 95 ; 

 of United States, i. 433, 443 ; exist- 

 ence prior to Glacial period, ii. 22 ; 

 Ice-action in New Zealand, and, ii. 

 154 ; Ball on origin of, ii. 20, 21 



Alpine insects, i. 262 



Alpine plants, i. 47, 63 ; change due to 

 transplanting, i. 197 ; slight change 

 in isolated forms, i. 456 ; as evidence 

 of continental land at close of Glacial 

 period, i. 461 



Alps, Australian, i. 95 ; Murchison on 

 structure of, ii. 229 ; submergence, i. 

 90 ; Tynd all's book on, i. 252 



Alternate generations, in Hydrozoa, i. 

 262 



Amazonia, Insects of, ii. 282 



Amazons, L. Agassiz on glacial phe- 

 nomena in valley of, i. 476 ; L. 

 Agassiz on geology of, ii. 159, 160; 

 Bates on lepidoptera of, i. 258, 464 ; 

 sedimentation off mouth of, ii. 146 



Amber, extinct plants preserved in, i. 

 409 



Amblyopsis, a blind cave-fish, effect of 

 conditions on, i. 143 



Ameghino, Prof., discovery of A T eomy- 

 lodon Listai, ii. 361 



America (North), are European birds 

 blown to 1 i. 486 ; Falconer on ele- 

 phants, i. 205-7 ; fauna and flora of 

 Japan and, i. 170, 423, 434, 442, 459 ; 

 flora of, i. 423, 42S-30 ; mammalian 

 fauna, i. 227, 228 ; introduction of 

 European weeds, i. 450; subsidence 

 during Glacial period, i. 467 ; western 

 European plants and flora of, i. 423 ; 

 contrast during Tertiary period be- 

 tween South and, ii. 16 ; former 

 greater distinction between fauna of 

 South and, ii. 18 ; glaciation of South 

 and, ii. 162 ; Rogers on coal-fields, 

 ii. 217 



America (South), Bollaert's Antiquities 

 of, i. 227 ; Araucarian fossil wood 

 from, i. 453 ; Carabi of, i. 200 ; ele- 

 vation of coast, i. 419 ; fauna of, 

 i. 227-8 ; floras of Australia and, i. 

 405, 406 ; geology of, i. 55 ; Darwin's 

 Geological Observations on, ii. 144 ; 

 deposition of sediment on coast, ii. 

 123 ; European plants in, i. 446 ; 

 frequency of earthquakes, ii. 114; 

 D. Forbes on geology of, ii. 141 ; 

 W. Jameson on geology of, ii. 141 ; 

 d'Orbigny on, ii. 117 ; volcanic erup- 

 tions, ii. 113; Wallace opposed to 

 continent uniting N. Zealand, Aus- 

 tralia and, ii. 14. 



