550 



INDEX 



Australia, two sets of Northern plants 



Beaver of Europe and America, 14 



in, 523 



^Beeby, Mr. W. H., on new plants in the 



South European plants in, 523 



Shetland Is., 370 



Australia and South Africa, supposed 



Beetles of the Azores, 253 



connection of, 525 



remote aflBnities of some of, 255 



Australian Alps, indications of glaciation 



of the Galapagos, 284 



in, 163 



of St. Helena, 298 



birds absent from New Zealand, 



of the Sandwich Islands, 318 



483 



Beetles, peculiar British species of, 349 



flora, general features of, 491 



Bell-birds, distribution of, 24 



richest in temperate zone, 491 



.JBennett, Mr. Arthur, on peculiar British 



recent and derivative in the tropics, 



plants, 361 



492 



on the vegetation of railway banks, 



its south-eastern and south-western 



514 y ^ 



divisions, 493 



^Bentham, Mr., on the compositse of the 



Sir Joseph Hooker on, 494 



Galapagos, 288 



geological explanation of, 494 



on the compositae of St. Helena, 307 



its presence in New Zealand, 498 



on the Mascarene compositae, 445 



natural orders of, wanting in New 



on Sandwich Island compositae, 325 



Zealand, 490 



Bermuda, 262 



orchideae in China, 52T 



soundings around, 263 



genera of plants in India, 524 



red clay of, 265 



plants absent from New Zealand, 



zoology of, 266 



488, 490 



reptiles of, 266 



none in north temperate zone, 527 



birds of, 266 



running wild in Neilgherrie moun- 



insects of, 269 



tains, 528 



land-moUusca of, 270 



region, definition of, 45 



flora of, 271 



mammals and birds of, 46 



Bermuda and Azores, comparison of 



seeds scattered in New Zealand, 



bird-faunas of, 268 



508 



Bernicla sandvichensis, 314 



Aylward, Captain, on glaciation of South 



Biological causes which determine dis- 



Africa, 163 



tribution, 532 



Azores, 247 



Biological features of Madagascar, 416 



absence from, of large-fruited trees 



Birds as plant-dispersers, 81 



or shrubs, 260 



as seed-carriers, 81, 258 



zoological features of, 248 



common to Great Britain and Japan, 



birds of, 249 



396 



insects of, 233 



common to India and Japan, 399 



beetles of, 253 



specific range of, 15 



land-shells of, 256 



range of British, 34 



flora of, 256 



range of East Asian, 38 



Azores and New Zealand, identical plants 



variation in N. American, 58 



in both, 512 



dispersal of, 75 



Azorean bird-fauna, origin of, 250 



of the Azores, 249 



fauna and flora, deductions from. 



of Bermuda, 266 



261 



of Bermuda and Azores compared, 



plants, facilities for the dispersal 



268 



of, 260 



of the Galapagos, 280 





of the Sandwich Islands, 313 





peculiar to Britain, 340 



B. 



of Borneo, 378 





of Java, 382 



Bdbirusa alfurus in Celebes, 455a, 456 



of the Philippines, 388 



Badgers, 41 



of Japan, 396 



Bahamas contrasted with Florida, 5 



peculiar to Japan, 398 



-^Baker, Mr., on flora of Mauritius and the 



peculiar to Formosa, 404 



Seychelles, 441 



common to Formosa and India or 



Bali and Lombok, contrasts of, 4 



Malaya, 407 



Banca, peculiar species of, 386 



of Madagascar, and their teachings, 



Barbar a precox on railway bank, 514 



422 



Barn-owl, wide range of, 15 



of Comoro Islands, 429 



.»Baron, Rev. R., on the flora of Mada- 



of the Seychelles, 430 



gascar, 441 



of the Mascarene islands, 436 



Barriers to dispersal, 73 



of islands east and west of Celebes, 



Batrachia, 30 



454 



Bats in Bermuda, 269 



of Celebes, 457 



Bears of Europe and America- 



peculiar to Celebes, 458 



