INDEX. 



Abbott, Mr., on spiders, i., 45. 



Aborigines banished from Van Die- 

 men's Land, ii., 235. 



of Australia, li., 218-239. 



Abrolhos, i., 18. 



Absence of trees in Pampas, i., 58. 



Aconcagua, volcano of, i., 325, ii., 32. 



Actinia, slinging species, ii., 258. 



Africa, Southern part desert, yet 

 supports large animals, i., 108. 



Agouti, habits of, i., 89. 



Ague, common in Peru, ii., 129. 



Albemarle Island, ii., 143. 



Allan, Dr., on Diodon, i., 18. 



on Holuthurise, ii., 258, 



259. 



Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, ii., 

 127. 



, stratified, in Andes, ii.,63. 



Amblyrhynchus, ii., 155, 168. 



Ana3, species of, i., 257. 



Animalculte, see Inifusoria. 



Antarctic Islands, i., 319. 



Antipodes, ii., 196. 



Ants at Keeling Island, ii., 247. 



in Brazil, i., 44. 



Apires, or miners, ii., 96. 

 Aplysia, i., 8. 

 Apple-trees, ii., 39. 

 Aptenodytes demersa, i., 250. 

 Areas of alternate movements in the 



Pacific and Indian Oceans, ii., 279. 

 Armadilloes, habits of, i., 122. 

 , fossil animals allied to, 



i., 165, 198. 

 Arrow-heads, ancient, i., 134, ii. 117. 

 Ascension, ii., 292. 

 Aspalax, blindness of, i., 66. 

 Athene, i., 89, 159. 

 Atolls, ii., 260. 

 Attagis, i., 121. 



Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, i., 152. 

 Audubon, M., on smelling-power of 



carrion-hawks, i., 236, 237. 

 Australia, ii., 214. 

 Australian barrier, ii., 270. 

 Azara on spiders, i., 45, 48. 



on ram in La Plata, i., 59. 



on range of carrion-hawks, i., 



II.— D D 



Azara on habits of carrion-hawks, i., 

 72. 



on a thunder-storm, i., 79. 



on ostrich-eggs, i., 117. 



on bows and arrows, i., 135. 



on new plants springing up, 



i., 152. 



on great droughts, i., 170. 



on hydrophobia, ii., 113. 



Bachman, Mr., on carrion-hawks, 



i., 237. 

 Bahia Blanca, i., 97-135. 

 Bahia, Brazil, i., 14. 

 — ■ — , scenery of, ii., 297. 

 Balbi on coral reefs, ii., 266. 

 Bald Head. Australia, ii., 239 

 Ballenar, Chile, ii., 107. 

 Banda Oriental, i., 49, 181. 

 Banks's Hill, i., 270. 

 Barking-bird, li., 28. 

 Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, i 



231. 

 Bathurst, Australia, ii., 229. 

 Bat, vampire, i., 27. 

 Bay of Islands, New Zealand, ii., 



196. 

 Beads, hill of, i., 190. 

 Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 



1., 280. 

 Beech-trees, i., 303, ii., 18. 

 Beetles alive in sea, i., 203. 

 — — , dung-feeders, ii., 290, 291. 



at St. Julian, i., 218. 



in brackish water, i., 27. 



on a fungus, i., 41. 



Behring's Straits, fossils of, i., 168. 

 Bellof Quillota, i., 329. 

 Benchuca, ii., 82. 

 Berkeley Sound, i., 241. 



, Rev. J., on Confervs, i., 18 



, on Cy t.taria, i . , 303 



Bibron, M., ii., 150, 155. 



Bien-te-veo, i., 69. 



Birds of the Gallapagos Archipelago, 



11., 146, 168. 

 Birds, taraeness of, ii., 172. 

 Birgoslatro, li., 256. 

 Bizcacha, habits of, i., 89, 158. 

 Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, i., 207. 



