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INDEX 



Submerged forests, 334 



Subsidence of Isthmus of Panama, 151 



Sumatra, geology of, 385 



Sweden, two deposits of " till " in, 121 



Swimming powers of mammalia, 74 



Swinhoe, Mr. Robert, researches in For- 

 mosa, 400 



Switzerland, interglacial warm periods in, 

 121 



Sykes, Mr. E. R., on land-shells of Ber- 

 muda, 270 

 of the Sandwich Is., 317a 



Sylviadse, overlapping genera of, 29 



Talpidae, a Palaearctic group, 41 

 Tapirs, distribution of, 25 



former wide range of, 393 

 Tarsius, 63 



Tarsius fuscus in Celebes, 455a 

 Tasmania and North Australia, resem- 

 blance of, 5 

 route of Arctic plants to, 520 

 ^Taylor, J. W., on endemic land and 

 fresh water mullusca of the British 

 Isles, 354 

 List of ditto, 375 

 Taxodium distichum in Spitzbergen, 184 

 Temperate climates in Arctic regions, 

 181 

 Australian genera of plants in New 



Zealand, 502 

 Australian species of plants in New 

 Zealand, 502 

 Temperature, how dependent on sun's 

 distance, 129 

 of space, 129 

 Tertiary glacial epochs, evidence against, 

 179 

 warm climates, continuous, 187 

 Test of glaciation at any period, 175 

 Testudo abingdonii, 279 

 T. microphyes, 278 

 Tetraogallus, distribution of, 24 

 Thais, a Palaearctic genus, 42 

 -Thomas, Mr. Oldfield, on mammalia of 



Japan, 394 

 Thomson, Sir Wyville, on organisms in 

 the globigerina-ooze, 89 

 analysis of globigerina-ooze, 91 

 Thryothorus bewickii, discontinuity of, 



68 

 *' Till "of Scotland, 112 



several distinct formations of, 121 

 Tits, distribution of species of, 19 

 Torreya, fossil in Spitzbergen, 186 

 Tortoises of the Galapagos, 278 

 Trade-winds, how modified by a glacial 



epoch, 142 

 Tragulidae, 27 

 Travelled blocks, 109 

 Tremarctos, an isolated genus, 29 

 Triassic warm Arctic climate, 200 

 Tribonyx not a New Zealand genus, 



483 

 Trichoptera peculiar to Britain, 353 

 Trogons, distribution of, 28 



Tropical affinities of New Zealand birds, 

 483 

 character of the New Zealand flora, 



cause of, 500 

 genera common to New Zealand and 

 Australia, 501 



Turdus, 17, 26 



Turdus fuscescens, variation of, 58, 59 



Tutt, Mr. J. W., on peculiar British 

 Lepidoptera, 346a. 



Tylor, A., on estimating the rate of denu- 

 dation, 214 



Tyrannidse, an American family, 50 



Uraniidae, 28 



Uropeltidse, 30 



Urotrichus, distribution of, 25 



Ursus, 26 



V. 



Variation in animals, 57 



amount of, in N. American birds, 

 58 

 Vegetation, local peculiarities of, 185 



effects of Polar night on, 198 

 Vesperugo serotinus, range of, 14 

 Vireo bellii, supposed discontinuity of, 



68 

 Vireonidse, an American family, 49 



W. 



Wallich, Dr., on habitat of globigerinaB, 



92 

 Warm climates of northern latitudes, long 



persistence of, 201 

 Warren, Mr. W,, information on British 



lepidoptera, 346a 

 Water,properties of ,in relation to climate, 



131. 133 

 Waterhouse, Mr., on Galapagos beetles, 



284 

 Wales, peculiar fish of, 341 

 Watson, Mr. H. C, on the flora of the 



Azores, 256 

 on peculiar British plants, 359 

 on vegetation of railway banks, 513 

 J7ebb, Mr., on comparison of Mars and 



the Earth, 166 

 West Australia, rich flora of, 494 



former extent and isolation of, 497 

 West Indies, a Neotropical district, 53 

 White,Dr. F.Buchanan, on the Hemiptera 



of St. Helena, 303 

 Mr. John, on native accounts of the 



moa, 477 

 Whitehead, Mr. John, on Bomean birds, 



378 

 Wilson, Mr. Scott B., on birds of the 



Sandwich Islands, 314 



