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INDEX. 



Mammalia, fossil, 81, 127, 130, 155, 



173, 371 

 Man, antiquity of, 358 



, fossil remains of, 370 



, body frozen, 249 



, fear of, an acquired instinct, 



400 



, extinction of races, 435, 448 



Mares killed for their hides, 1 54 

 Mare's flesh eaten by troops, 101 

 Mastodon, 127, 130 

 Matter, granular, movements in, 100 

 Mauritius, 483 

 Maypu river, 316 

 Megalonyx, 81, 131 

 Megatherium, 81, 83, 131 

 Mendoza, climate of, 323 



, 330 



Mexico, elevation of, 132 



Miasmata, 365, 435 



Mice inhabit sterile places, 360 



, number of, in America, 49 



, how transported, 288, 378 



different on opposite sides of 



Andes, 326 



of the Galapagos, 378 



of Ascension, 492 



Millepora, 464 



Mills for grinding ores, 266 



Mimosa?, 25 



Mimus, 54, 394, 399 



Miners, condition of, 260, 265, 339, 



346 

 Mines, 260, 340, 346 



, how discovered, 317 



Missionaries at New Zealand, 425 

 Mitchell, Sir T., on valleys of Aus- 

 tralia, 438 

 Mocking-bird, 54, 394, 399 

 Molina, omits description of certain 



birds, 271 

 Molothrus, habits of, 52 

 Monkeys with prehensile tails, 28 

 Monte Video, 40, 142 

 Moresbv, Capt., on a great "rab, 



463 



— — on coral-reel's, 479 



Mount Sarmiento, 233, 241 



Tarn, 234 



Mountains, elevation of, 312 

 Movements in granular matter, 100 

 Mud, chalk-like, 465 



disturbed by earthquake, 306 



Mules, 315 



Muniz, Sig., on niata cattle, 145 

 Murray, Mr., on spiders, 1 6 1 

 Mylodon, 81, 131, 155 

 Myopotamus Coipus, 287 



Negress with goitre, 314 

 Negro, Rio, 63, 149 



lieutenant, 76 



New Caledonia, reef of, 469, 47L 

 477 



Zealand, 417 



Niata cattle, 145 



Noises from a hill, 361 



Noses, ceremony of pressing, 423 



Nothura, 45 



Notopod, crustacean, 161 



Nulliporse, incrustations like, 9 



protecting reefs, 498 



Octopus, habits of, 7 

 Oily coating on sea, 1 7 

 Olfcrsia, 10 

 Opetiorhynchus, 289 

 Opuntia Galapageia, 374 



Darwinii, 165 



, 261 



Orange-trees self-sown, 120 

 Ores, gold, 266 

 Ornithorhynchus, 441 

 Ornithology of Galapagos, 378, 394 

 Osorno, volcano of, 273, 275, 291 

 Ostrich, habits of, 43, 89 

 Ostrich's eggs, 113 

 Otaheite, 403 

 Otter, 287 

 Ova in sea, 1 7 

 Oven-bird, 95 

 Owen, Capt., on a drought in Africa, 



133 



, Professor, on the Capybara, 50 



fossil quadrupeds, 



81 to 84, 130, 155 



nostras of the 



Gallinazo, 185 

 Owl of Pampas, 70, 125 

 Oxyurus, 237, 289 

 Oysters, gigantic, 1 70 



Paint, white, 221 

 Pallas on Siberia, 67 

 Palm-trees in La Plata, 46 



in Chile, 256 



, soulh limit of, 244 



Palms absent at Galapagos, 37i> 



