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INDEX, 



Spiders on St. Paul's, 10 



Springs, hot, 252 



Stevenson, Mr., on growth of sea- 

 weed, 227 



Stinging animals, 445 



St. Helena, 466 



, introduction of spirits 



into, 396 



IV, 121 



Jago, C. Verds, 1 



. , unhealthiness of, 350 



Jago, Chile, 250 



Maria, elevated, 295, 297 



- - Paul's rocks, 7 

 Stones perforated, 142, 255 



transported in roots, 443 



Storm, 20G, 269 



in Cordillera, 3)0, 345 



Streams of stones at Falkland 



Islands, 187 

 Strongylus, 31 

 Strutbio Khea, 41, 87 



Darwinii, 87 



Strzelecki, Count, 430 ' 

 Suadiva atoll, 448 



Subsidence of coral reef, 448 to 462 



of Keeling Island, 456 



of Patagonia, 164 



of coast of Peru, 353 



of Cordillera, 307, 319 



of Coasts of Chile, 330 



of Vanikoro, 456 



of coral reefs great in 



amount, 460 



, cause of distinctness in 



Tertiary epochs, 330 

 Sulphate of lime, 62, 162, 354 

 of soda incrustingr 



the 



ground, 73 



of soda with common salt, 



62, 354 



Swainson, Mr., on cuckoos, 50 

 Sydney, 414 



Tabanua, 162 



Tahiti (Otaheite), 387 



, three zones of fertility, 390 



Talcahuano, 290 

 Tambillos, Kuinas de, 341 

 Tameness of birds, 382 

 Tapacolo and Turco, 258 

 Tapalguen, Sierra, flat hills of 



quartz, 109 

 Tarn, Mount, 223 



Tasmania, 428 

 Tattooing, 388, 409 

 Temperance of the Tahitians, 395 

 Temperature of Tierra del Fuego 



and Falkland Islands, 231 

 of Galapagos, 358, 



362 

 Tercero, Rio, fossils in banks of, 



120 

 Terraces in valleys of Cordillera, 



302 



of Coquimbo, 329 



of Patagonia, 163, 172 



Tertiary formations of the Pampas, 



76, 122, 147 

 of Patagonia, 



in Chile, epochs 



of, 330 



Teru-tero, habits of, 108 



Testudo, habits, of, 367, 378 



Theory of lagoon-islands, 453 



Theristicus, 157 



Thistle beds, 112, 117, 141 



Thunder-storms, 58 



Tierra del Fuego, 194 to 240 



-, climate and vege- 



tation of, 231 



, zoology of, 225 

 , entomology of, 



227 



Tinamus rufescens, 106 

 Tinochorus Eschscholtzii, 88 

 Toad, habits of, 91 

 not found in oceanic islands, 



366 



Torrents in Cordillera, 303, 308 

 Tortoise, habits of. 367, 378 

 Toxodon, 77, 120, 123, 147 

 Transparency of air in Andes, 312 



in St. Jago, 4 



Transport of seeds, 377, 436 



of boulders, 177, 236 



of stones in roots of trees, 



443 

 of fragments of rock on 



banks of the St. Cruz river, 171 

 Travertin with leaves of trees, Van 



Diemen's Land, 430 

 Tree-ferns, southern limits of, 233 



,431 



Trees, absence of, in Pampas, 44 



, floating, transport stones. 443 



silicificd, vertical, 318 



