634 



GENERAL INDEX. 



MAC 



Maclaren, Mr., remarks on theory of 

 atolls, ii. 603 



Macmurdo, Captain, on delta of Indus, 



• ii. 99 



M*Nab, Mr. J., his sketch of an iceberg, 

 i. 381 



Madagascar, a sub-province of Ethio- 

 pian zoological region, ii. 344 



number of peculiar species in, ii. 

 344 



Madeira, birds of, common to Europe, 

 ii. 413 



and Porto Santo, proportion of ex- 

 tinct and living landshells of, ii. 422- 

 426 



Madeiran Archipelago, map of, ii. 405 

 Madrepora muricata, ii. 582 

 Madrid, New. See New Madrid. 

 Maeler Lake in Sweden, ii. 194 

 Magellan, Straits of, tides in, i. 493 

 Magnesia deposited by springs, i. 397 

 Magnetic storm, Sept. 1859, ii. 231 

 Magnetism, solar, i. 303 



— a source of volcanic heat, ii. 230, 242 

 Mahomet, his cosmogony, i. 28 

 Maize, modifications produced in the, 



ii. 297 



Majoli on volcanic ejection of shells, 



- i. 35 



Malay Archipelago, great zoological 

 ' boundary in the, ii. 347 



two marked human races in the, 



ii. 474 



Maldive Islands, coral reefs of, ii. 588 



Mallet, Captain, on Trinidad petroleum, 

 i. 414 



Mallet, Mr. R., on Calabrian earth- 

 quake, ii. 118, 137, 143 



earthquake vorticose move- 

 ment, ii. 120 



earthquakes, ii. 82 



mode of determining the 

 earthquake focus, ii. 137 



depth of earthquake focus, 



sea- waves during earth- 

 quakes, ii. 152 



Malthus, his law of population applied 

 to animals, ii, 279 



Mammalia, absence of, how far affecting 

 reptile life, i. 220 



fossil, as bearing on progression, i. 



1 58 



of Mississippi loess, i. 465 



successive appearance of higher, i. 

 163 



absence of, in Atlantic islands, ii. 

 411 



different regions of, ii. 335, 340, 341, 

 343, 346, 347 



fossil of Pikermi, ii. 482 



ii. 139 





MAP 



Mammalia, geographical relation of fos- 

 sil to living, ii. 332 



— ~ distribution of fossil, ii. 333 

 of the Nearctic region, ii. 340 



— imbedding of, in strata, ii. 535 

 Mammifer fossil of trias, i. 158 

 Mammifers, number of species of, ii. 271 

 Mammoth, climate of the, i. 178 



Siberian, i. 181 



found fossil on Yenesei, 1866, i. 185 



— probable food of, i. 187 



Man, introduction of, and its effects, i. 

 167-173 



durability of bones of, i. 166 ; ii. 544 

 his agency in dispersing plants, ii. 



agency of, in dispersion of animals. 

 11. 336 



an Old- World type, ii. 474 



cerebral development of, ii. 485, 487 



diverged from one starting point, ii. 

 469 & 1- ' 



■ extirpation of species by, ii. 451 



his origin and distribution, ii. 464 



and horse found in Solway moss, ii. 

 503 



-^imbedding of his remains and works 

 in subaqueous strata, ii. 541 



- modern origin of, ii. bb^ 



- monuments in Europe of pre-historic, 

 ii. 557 



only one of many exterminating 

 agents, ii. 460 



■ question of multiple origin of, ii. 475 



- remains of, in the bed of the sea, ii. 

 542 



remains of, in lowest Danish peat, ii. 

 500 



barbarism of Palseolithic, ii. 493 - 

 subject to animal laws, ii. 493 



- whether his bodily frame varies, ii. 

 471-476 



six-fingered variety of, ii. 476 



— whether degraded from a higher or 

 risen from a lower type, ii. 479 



Manetho, i. 92 



Mantell, Dr., on imbedding of insects, 

 ii. 534 



Mr. Walter, on New Zealand earth- 

 quake, ii. 85 



Map of changes on the cfoast of Holland, 

 &c., i. 549 



Holland and the Baltic, i. 557 



Granges and Brahmapootra, i. 471 

 isothermal lines, i. 239 

 Mississippi delta, i. 448 

 Siberia, i. 182 

 volcanic district of Naples, i. 559- 



579 



volcanos from Philippine Islands 

 to Bengal, i. 586 



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