INDEX, 



503 



Ibis melanops, 170. 



Ice, prismatic structure of, 



322. 

 Icebergfs, 190, 227, 248, 252. 

 Incas' Bridge, 332, 353. 

 Incrustations on coast rocks, 



19, 22. 

 Indian fossil remains, 367. 

 Indians, attacks of, 74, 86, 



133. 



Patagonians, 235. 



of the Pampas, 109. 



of Valdivia, 298. 



perforated stones used 



by, 267. 



powers of tracking, 325. 



grave of, 174, 191. 



ruins of houses of, in 



Cordillera, 353, 365.^ 

 antiquities of, in La 



Plata, 57, 113. 



decreasein numbers, 112. 



Infusoria in dust in the 



Atlantic, 18, 27. 



in the sea, 167. 



in Pampas, 91, 135. 



Patagonia, 175. 



— — in white paint, 223. 



in coral mud, 457. 



at Ascension, 484. 



Insects, first colonists of St. 



Paul's rocks, 24. 



blown out to sea, 164, 



of Patagonia, 174, 325. 



of Tierra del Fuego, 



240. 

 of Galapagos, 376, 386, 



390- 

 of Keeling Island, 448. 



of St. Helena, 480. 



Iodine with salt at Iqiiique, 



361. 

 Iquique, 359. 

 1 1 on, oxide of, on rocks, 25. 



Islands, oceanic, volcanic, 22. 



floating, 265. 



Antarctic, 249. 



low, 396, 459. 



Jackson, Col., on frozen 



snow, 322. 

 Jaguar, habits of, 141. 

 Jajuel, mines of, 260. 

 James Island, Galapagos 



Archipelago, 372. 

 Juan Fernandez, volcano of, 



309. 

 flora of, 387. 



Kater's Peak, 214. 

 Kauri pine, 420. 

 Keeling Island, 444. 



subsidence of, 466, 467. 



birds of, 448. 



entomology of, 448. 



flora of, 446. 



Kelp or sea-weed, 240. 

 Kendall, Lieut., on a frozen 



body, 250. 

 Kingfishers, 16, 144. 

 King George's Sound, 442. 



Labourers, condition of, in 



Chile, 266. 

 Lagoon Islands, 451,453, 460. 

 Lagostomus, 130. 

 LaUe, brackish, near Rio, 



33- 

 with floating islands, 



265. 



formed during earth- 

 quake, 367. 



Lamarck on acquired blind- 

 ness, 62. 



Lampyris, 41. 



Lancaster, Capt., on a sea- 

 tree, 108. 



Land-shells, 344, 479, 480. 



