INDEX 



531 



Polynesians and Malays compared, 402 



affinities of, 404 



Darwin, on character of, 405 

 Polynesians and their migrations, 39'J 



origin of brown, 489 



tribes in N. Guinea, 450 

 Population, checks to increase of, 520 

 Porto Santo, rabbits of, 303 

 Prestwich, Prof., on ocean depths, 30 



on heat of earth, 42 

 Pi-ickles, origin of, 308 

 Proteus, rudimentary eyes of, 326 



white colour of, 393 



Q. 



Quatrefages on Polynesians, 399 



their migrations, 400 

 Queensland, natives of, 462 



R. 



Rabbits of Porto Santo, 393 



Recognition -marks, 383 

 criticism of, 384 



Redwood, 232 



Report on bird-migi-ation, 505 



Rhone, ancient glacier of, 78 



Roches moutonnees, 64 



Rocks, striated, grooved, and fluted, 67 



Rocky mountain flora, 215 



Rocky mountains, British plants in 216, 

 219 

 alpine plants of, 217 

 origin of alpine flora of, 221 



Rock-paintings in Australia, 469 



Romanes on scent in dogs, 506 



S. 



Sakis, 171 



Salt rocks favour denudation, 20 

 Samoa, natives of, 412 

 Sandstone, caverns in, 20 

 Sandwich Islands, few spiny plants in, 

 309 



natives of, 406 

 Sapajous, 170 

 Sarcodes sanguiiiea, 226 

 Saturnia, Texan, change in, 338 

 Scandinavian boulders in Yorkshire, 86 



rocks in Britain, 82 

 Scrope on volcanic phenomena, 51 

 Sedgwick, Prof., on Scandinavian erratics 



in Britain, 82 

 Seebohm on migration, 504 

 Selection, human, 509 



of qualities not characters, 332 

 Semnopithecus, 163 

 Semon on Australians and Caucasians, 



468 

 Sense of dii-ection, no proof of, 506 

 Sequoia sempervirens, 2B2 



Sequoias, age of, 230 



few young trees, 231 

 Shap gi'anite, erratics of, SB 

 Sierra Nevada, flora of, 223 

 Simla satyrus, 160 

 Social advance and character, 517 

 Spalding, D., on instinct, 498 

 Species, how they originate, 290 



meaning of, 285 



why stable, 381 

 Specific characters due to natural selec- 

 tion, 385 



must therefore be useful, 387 



supposed useless, 393 

 Spectre -lemur, 177 



Spencer, H., erroneous assumptions of, 

 330 



on the population question, 522 



on touch, 324 

 Spencer, Prof., on Central Australians, 

 475 



photographs of Australians, 490 

 Spider monkeys, 167 

 Spines, origin of, 308 

 Spiny plants and herbivorous animals, 310 



rare in oceanic islands, 309 



abundant in Africa and Chile, 310 



frequent in moist climates, 310 

 Stability of species, 381 



organic, 366, 369 

 Stanton, Eliz. C, on true marriage, 515 

 Stanley, Hiram M., on improvement of 



the race, 513 

 Stick-insects, 195 



Stone, Mr. O. C, on the Motu tribe, 450 

 Striated rocks, 67 

 Sugar-pines, 227 



T. 



Tahiti, natives of, 405 



Tarr, Mr. R. S., on Lake Cayuga, an ice- 



eroded basin, 141 

 Tarsius, 177 

 Teeth, evolution of, 323 

 Temperature underground, variations uf 



under mountains, 47 

 Thomson, Mr. J., on ruins in Cambodia, 



477 

 Tiger beetles, disguises of, 194 

 Tonga Is., natives of, 410 

 Tortoise-shell butterfly, chrysalis of, 197 

 Training, are results of hereditary, 510 

 Tnmtalls f'i!;-o^)fta in California, 227 

 Tropical regions, allied forms in, 275 



explanation of, 276, 278 

 Turner, Rev. W., on the Motu, 452 



U. 



Uacari monkeys, 171 



Upward motion of rocks in glaciers of 



Spitzbergen, 91 

 Use-inheritance not a factor m evolution, 



342 



