317 



Falkland Islands, wild cattle and 

 horses of, i., 243-247. 



_ , climate of, i., 312. 



■ , peat of, ii., 25. 



Fat, quantity eaten, i., 150. 

 Fear an acquired instinct, ii., 175. 

 Februa, i., 42. 

 Fennel, run wild, i., 152. 

 Ferguson, Dr., on miasma, ii., 130. 

 Fern-trees, i., 314, ii., 238. 

 Fernando Noronha, i., 14, ii., 140. 

 Fields of dead coral, ii., 253. 

 Fire, art of making, i., 251, ii., 186. 

 Fish, eating coral, li., 258. 



of Galapagos, ii., 162. 



emitting harsh sound, i., 174. 



Flamingoes, i., 85. 



Fleas, ii., 102, 103. 



Floods after droughts, i., 171. 



clear after snow, ii., 68. 



Flora of the Galapagos, li., 140, 164, 



169. 



of Keeling Island, ii., 244. 



of St. Helena, ii., 286, 287. 



Flustraceae, i., 258, 309. 



Forests, absence of, in LaPlata,i.,59. 



of Tierra del Fuego, i., 271, 



313, ii., 24. 



ofChiloe,i.,313,ii.,17,24,33. 



of Valdivia, ii., 40, 44. 



of New Zealand, ii., 209,210. 



of Australia, ii., 217. 



Fossil Mammalia, i., 104, 162, 165, 



198, 222. 



earthenware, ii., 136. 



Fox of the Falkland Islands, i., 249. 



of Chiloe, ii., 17. 



Friendly Archipelago, ii., 280. 

 Frogs, noises of, i., 37. 

 ; bladders of, ii., 153. 



and toads, not found on ocean- 

 ic islands, ii., 150. 



Frozen soil, i., 113, 319. 

 Fruit-trees, southern hmit of, i., 313. 

 Fucus giganteus, i., 308. 

 Fuegians, i., 262-302. 

 Fulgurites, i., 76. 

 Fungus, edible, i., 303 

 Furnarius, i., 122. 



Galapagos Archipelago, ii., 138 ; 

 natural history of, ii., 145. 



belongs to American Zool- 

 ogy, ii., 145, 166. 



Gale of wind, i., 279, ii., 18. 



Gallegos River, fossil bones at, i., 215. 



Gallinazo, i., 71. 



Gauchos, i., 54, 200. 



, character of, i., 200. 



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Gauchos live on meat, i., 150. 

 Gay, M., on floating islands, i., 342. 

 , on shells in brackish water, 



Geese at the Falkland Islands, i.,257. 

 Geographical distribution of Ameri- 

 can animals, i., 167, ii., 78. 



of frogs. 



of Fau- 



150. 



na of Galapagos, ii., 165. 

 Geology of Cordillera, ii., 68, 86. 



of Patagonia, i., 219, 233. 



of St. Jago. i., 7. 



of St. Paul,!., 10. 



of B. Blanca, i., 104. 



of Pampas, i., 164. 



of Brazil, i., 15. 



Georgia, climate of, i., 320. 

 Geospiza, ii., 147, 168. 



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

 ii., 120. 



Gillies, Dr., on the Cordillera, ii., 73. 



Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, i., 289, 

 316. 



in Cordillera, ii., 75. 



in lat. 460 40', i,, 317. 



Glow-worms, i., 38. 



Goats, destructive to vegetation at 

 St. Helena, ii., 289. 



, bones of, i. 215. 



Goitre, ii., 61. 



Gold-washing, i., 343. 



Good Success Bay, i., 262. 



Gossamer spider, i., 204. 



Gould, Mr., on the Calodera, i., 159. 



, on birds of Galapagos, 



ii., 146. 



Granite mountains, Tres Montes, i., 

 21. 



of Cordillera, ii., 69. 



Graspus, i., 13. 



Gravel, how far transported, i., 138 



of Patagonia, i., 96, 219. 



Greenstone, fragments of, i., 331. 



Gryllus inigratorius, li., 82. 



Guanaco, habits of, i., 213-215. 



, fossil allied genus, i., 221. 



Guantajaya, mines of, ii., 126. 



Guardia del Monte, i., 151. 



Guasco, ii., 106. 



Guasos of Chile, i., 332. 



Guava, imported into Tahiti, ii., 178. 



Guinea-fowl, i., 4, ii., 294. 



Gunnera scabra, ii., 16. 



Gypsum, great beds of, ii., 68. 



in salt-lake, i., 83. 



in Patagoniau tertiary- 

 beds, i,, 219. 

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