INDEX 



555 



Generic areas, 17 



Generic and Family distribution, 25 

 Genus, defined and illustrated, 17 

 Geographical change as a cause of glacia- 

 tion, 148 

 changes, influence of, on climate, 

 150, 152 

 Geographical changes, effect of, on Arctic 

 climates, 195 

 changes of Java and Borneo, 384 

 changes as modifying organisms, 228 

 Geological climates and geographical 

 conditions, 204 

 time, 210 

 change, probably quicker in remote 



times, 223 

 time, value of the estimate of, 224 

 time, measurement of, 235 

 changes as aiding the migration of 



plants, 519 

 climates as affecting distribution, 



534 

 climates, summary of causes of, 536 

 time, summary of views on, 539 

 Geology of Borneo, 375 

 of Madagascar, 412 

 of Celebes, 451 

 of New Zealand, 472 

 of Australia, 494 

 Geomalacus maculosus, 357 

 Glacial climate not local, 113 

 deposits of Scotland, 112 

 Glacial epoch, proofs of, 107 



effects of, on animal life, 117 

 alternations of climate during, 118 

 as causing migration and extinction, 



122 

 causes of, 125 

 the essentials to the production of, 



136 

 probable date of the, 160 

 and the climax of continental de- 

 velopment, 206 

 date of last, 233 

 Glacial phenomena in North America, 



116 

 Glaciation was greatest where rainfall is 

 now greatest, 139 

 action of meteorological causes on, 



142 

 summary of chief causes of, 144 

 in Northern Hemisphere, the only 



efficient cause of, 144 

 of New Zealand and South Africa, 162 

 local, due to high excentricity, 207 

 widespread in recent times, 536 

 Gleiehenia in Greenland, 186 



in relation to chalk, 89 

 Globigerina-ooze, analysis of, 91 

 Globigerinae, where found, 92 

 Glyptostrobus, fossil, 186 

 Goats, destructiveness of, in St. Helena, 



295 

 JSpdman, Mr., on birds reaching the 



Azores, 248, 250 

 jGray, Professor Asa, on extinction of 

 European plants by the glacial 

 epoch, 123 



Great Britain and Japan, birds common 



to, 396 

 Greene, Dr. J. Reay, on chameleons in 



Bourbon and Mauritius, 435 

 Greenland, loss of sun-heat by clouds in, 



147 

 Greenland, an anomaly in the Northern 

 Hemisphere, 154 

 Miocene, flora of, 183 

 Cretaceous flora of, 186 

 flora of ice-surrounded rocks of, 522 

 Grinnell Land, fossil flora of, 184 

 jGroves, Messrs. H. and J., list of peculiar 



British flowering plants, 361 

 Guernsey, peculiar caddis-fly in, 353 

 Gulick, Rev. J. T.,on Achatinellinse, 31 7 

 Glinther, Dr., on gigantic tortoises, 279 

 on peculiar British fishes, 341 

 on Urotrichus gibsli, 394 

 on lizards in the London docks, 431 

 on Indian toads in Mauritius, 438 

 Guppy, Mr., on chalk of Solomon Islands, 

 91 



H. 



JJaast, Dr., on otter-like mammal in 



New Zealand, 475 

 Habitability of globe due to disproportion 



of land and water, 209 

 Haplothorax burchellii, 299 

 Hartlaub, Dr., on *' Lemuria," 423, 426 

 Batteria punctata, 483 

 Haughton, Professor, on heat carried by 

 ocean-currents, 194 

 comparison of Miocene and existing 



climates, 197 

 on geological time, 211, 219 

 on thickness of sedimentary rocks, 

 219 

 Hawaiian fc\una and flora, antiquity of, 



328 

 Heat and cold, how dispersed or stored 



up, 131 

 Heat required to melt snow, 134 



evolved by frozen water, its nature 



and effects, 145 

 cut off by cloud and fogs, 145 

 Hector, Dr. , on Triassic and Jurassic 



flora of New Zealand, 526 

 Heer, Professor, on chalk sea in Central 



Europe, 93 

 Heilprin, Professor, on insects of Ber- 

 muda, 269 

 on land-shells of Bermuda, 270 

 Helianthemum Breweri, 361 

 Heliodus, an American fossil, 69 

 Helix, 17 



Hemiptera of St. Helena, 303 

 Hemsley, Mr. W. B., on plants peculiar 

 to Bermuda, 272 

 on number of flowering plants in 



Madagascar, 440 

 on additions to the flora of New 

 Zealand, 488 

 Hepaticae, peculiar British, 366 



non-European genera of, in Britain. 

 367 



