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INDEX 



Hesperomys, 26 



Hesperornis allied to ostriches, 481 



High land essential to the production of 



a glacial epoch, 195 

 jlildebrand, Dr. W., on flora of the 



Sandwich Islands, 321 

 Himalayan birds and insects in Celebes, 



462 

 Hippopotamus in Yorkshire as proving 



a mild climate, 119 

 Hochstetter on the aquatic mammal of 



New Zealand, 475 

 Hooker, Sir Joseph, on the Galapagos 



flora, 288 

 on affinities of St. Helena plants, 306 

 on peculiar British plants, 360, 363 

 on the flora of New Zealand, 488 

 on proportion of temperate and 



tropical Australian floras, 492 

 on current of vegetation from north 



to south, 510 

 on supposed occurrence of Australian 



plants in England in the Tertiary 



period, 518 

 Jgorne, Mr. John, on ice-sheet covering 



the Isle of Man, 115 

 JEijll, Professor, on Permian breccias in 



Ireland indicating ice-action, 201 

 Humming-birds, restricted range of, 16 

 Hutton, Captain, on struthious birds of 



New Zealand, 478 

 Huxley, Professor, on geological time, 



211 

 on European origin of African ani- 

 mals, 419 

 Hyomoschus, 27 

 Hyracoidea, restricted range of, 30 



I. 



Ice-action, what evidences of, during the 

 Tertiary period, 178 

 indications of ancient, 200 

 Ice-borne rocks, a test of a glacial epoch, 

 176 

 in Miocene of N. Italy, 178 

 in Eocene of Alps, 178 

 in Eocene of Carpathians and Apen- 

 nines, 179 

 absence of, in English and N. Ameri- 

 can Tertiaries, 180 

 Ice-cap, why improbable or impossible, 



161 

 Iceland, a continental island, 450 

 Icteridse, 50 

 Iguanidse, 50 



Indian birds in Formosa, 406 

 Indian Ocean as a source of heat in Ter- 

 tiary times, 192 

 Indian genera of plants in Australia, 



492 

 Indicator, distribution of, 25 

 Insectivora in Madagascar, 417 

 Insects, dispersal of, 77 



of the Miocene period, 77 

 restriction of range of, 78 

 of the Azores, 253 



Insects of Bermuda, 269 

 of the Galapagos, 284 

 of St. Helena, 298 

 of the Sandwich Islands, 318 

 peculiar British, 344 

 of Celebes, peculiarities of, 462 

 scarcity of, in New Zealand, 505 

 Insular faunas, summary of conclusions 



as to, 539, 542 

 Interglacial warm periods on the conti- 

 nent and in North America, 121 

 Interglacial periods and their probable 



character, 152 

 Interglacial periods will not occur during 

 an epoch of extreme glaciation , 155 

 Interglacial climates never very warm, 



159 

 Ireland, poverty of, in reptiles, 339 

 in plants, 339 

 peculiar fishes of, 342 

 plants of, not found in Great Britain, 

 364 

 Islands, classification of, 242 



importance of, in study of distribu- 

 tion, 241 

 remote, how stocked with plants 



and animals, 261 

 submerged between Madagascar and 

 India, 424 

 Isle of Wight, peculiar beetle of, 349 

 Isatis tinctoria, on railway bank, 513 

 Ithaginis, 26 



J. 



Japan, zoological features of, 393 

 mammalia of, 393 

 birds of, 396 

 birds peculiar to, 398 

 birds in distant areas, 399 

 Japan and Formosa, 391 

 Java, fauna of, 381 



Asiatic species in, 383 

 Java and Borneo, past changes of, 384 

 Jays, distribution of species of, 20 



of Europe and Japan, 67 

 ^Jeffreys, Dr. Gwyn, on shallow-water 

 moUusca in chalk, 92 

 on fossil shallow- water shells in deep 

 water, 337 

 jJones, Mr., on migration of birds to 

 Bermuda, 268 

 on vegetation of the Bermudas, 272 

 Juan Fernandez, flora and fauna of, 287 

 Jjidd, Prof. J. W., on absence of glacia- 

 tion in east Europe, 139 

 on glaciation of the Alps produced by 

 elevation, 179 

 Jura, travelled blocks on, 110 

 Jurassic warm Arctic climate, 202 



K. 



Keeling Islands, animals of, 286 

 .Kelvin, Lord, on age of the earth, 213 

 JK.irk, Mr. T., on temporary introduced 

 ""^ plants, 515 



