510 



INDEX. 



DobrizhoflFer on a hail-storm, 116 



Docks, imported, 428 



Dogs, shepherd. 149 



D'Orbigny, Travels in South Ameri- 

 ca, 78,93, 120. 130, 149, 167 



Doris, eggs of, 201 



Doubleday, Mr., on a noise made by 

 a butterlly, 33 



Drigg, lightning tubes at, 59 



Droughts, great, in Pampas, 133 



DrjTiess of St. Jago, 4 



of Avinds in Tierra del Fu- 



ego, 231 



of air in Cordillera, 325 



Du Bois, 382, 399 

 Dung-feeding beetles, 490 

 Dust, falling from atmosphere, 5 



EarthenAvare fossil, 370 

 Earthquake, accompanied by an ele- 

 vation of the coast, 310 



accompanied by rain, 351 



at Callao, 369 



at Concepcion, 302 



• at Coquimbo, 342 



at Keeling and Vani- 



koi'o, and Society Islands, 475 



at Valdivia, 301 



, causes of, 311 



, effect of, on springs, 2r;4 



ou bottom of 



sea, 306 



303 



304, 305 



358 



the ground, 198 



-, effects of, on rocks, 257, 



-, effects of, on sea, 302, 



, effects of, on a river-bed, 



•, line of vibration of, 307 



■ on S. W. coast, 246 



•, tossing fragments from 



, twisting movement of, 



308 

 Eggs of Doris, 201 

 Ehrenberg, Prof., on Atlantic dust, 5 

 • — on infusoria in Pam- 



pas, 82, 130 



open sea, 162 



gonia, 171 



in the 

 in Pata- 

 in Fue- 



Ehrenberg, Prof., on infusoria in 



coral mud, 465 

 in tuff 



at Ascension, 494 



on phosphorescence 



of the sea, 163 



on noises from a hill, 



361 



Eimeo, view of, 406 

 Elate r, springing powers of, 31 

 Electricity of atmosphere within 



Andes, 326 

 Elephant, weight of, 87 

 Elevated shells, 85, 130, 171, 254, 



297, 310, 344, 362, 369 

 Elevation of coasts ofChile, 254, 297, 



307, 310, 338, 344, 357 



— B. Blanca, 83 



Patagonia, 171, 371 



Pampas, 130 



— mountain-chains, 312 



Cordillera, 316, 321, 332 



fringing-reefs, 476 



Peru, 369 



. within human period, 371 



Entomology of the Galapagos Archi- 

 pelago, 381, 392, 394 



Brazil, 34 



Patagonia, 170, 327 



Tierra del Fuego, 238 



- Keeling Island, 456 

 St. Helena, 490 



Entre Kios, geology of, 129 



Epeira, habits of, 36, 38 



Erratic blocks, how transported, 247 



absent in intertropical 



countries, 248 



on plains of Santa 



Cruz, 187 



jgian paint, 221 



of Tierra del Fuego, 247 



Estancia, value of, 145 

 Extennination of species and races, 



174, 434, 441, 448 

 Extinction of shells at St. Helena, 488 



of species, causes of, 1 74 



of man in New South 



Wales. 434, 448 

 Eyes of tucutuco and mole, 52 



Falconer, Dr., on the Sivatherium, 

 146 



, Jesuit, on the Indians. 104 



, on rivers in Pam- 

 pas, 106 



