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INDEX. 
Mammalia, fossil, 81, 127, 130, 155, 
173, 371 
Man, antiquity of, 358 
——-, fossil remains of, 370 
——, body frozen, 249 
——, fear of, an acquired instinct, 
400 
— , extinction of races, 435, 448 
Mares killed for their hides, 154 
Mare’s flesh eaten by troops, 101 
Mastodon, 127, 130 
Matter, granular, movements in, 100 
Mauriiius, 483 
Maypu river, 316 
Megalonyx, 81, 131 
Megatherium, 81, 83, 131 
Mendoza, climate of, 323 
, 330 
Mexico, elevation of, 132 
Miasmata, 365, 435 
Mice inhabit sterile places, 360 
—, number of, in America, 49 
—, how transported, 288, $78 
—— different on opposite sides of 
Andes, 326 
— of the Galapagos, 378 
—— of Ascension, 492 
Millepora, 464 
Mills for grinding ores, 266 - 
Mimosa, 25 
Mimus, 54, 394, 399 
Miners, condition of, 260, 265, 339, 
346 
Mines, 260, 340, 346 
~——, how discovered, 317 
Missionaries at New Zeaiand, 425 
Mitchell, Sir T., on valleys of Aus- 
tralia, 438 
Mocking-bird, 54, 394, 399 
Molina, omits description of certain 
birds, 271 
Molothrus, habits of, 52 
Monkeys with prehensile tails, 28 
Monte Video, 40, 142 
Moresby, Capt., on a great crab, 
463 
——_———— on coral-reefis, 479 
Mount Sarmiento, 233, 241 
Tarn, 234 
Mountains, elevation of, 512 
Movements in granular matter, 100 
Mud, chalk-like, 465 
—— disturbed by earthquake, 306 
Mules, 315 
Muniz, Sig., on niata cattle, 145 
Murray, Mr., on spiders, 161 
Mylodon, 81, 131, 155 
Myopotamus Coipus, 287 
Negress with goitre, 314 
Negro, Rio, 63, 149 
lieutenant, 76 
New Caledonia, reef of, 469, 471, 
477 
—— Zealand, 417 
Niata cattle, 145 
Noises from a hill, 361 
Noses, ceremony of pressing, 425 
Nothura, 45 
Notopod, crustacean, 161 
Nullipore, incrustations like, 9 
——_—— protecting reefs, 498 
Octopus, habits of, 7 
Oily coating on sea, 17 
Olfersia, 10 
Opetiorhynchus, 289 
Opuntia Galapageia, 374 
Darwinii, 165 
, 261 
Orange-trees self-sown, 120 
Ores, gold, 266 
Ornithorhynchns, ‘441 
Ornithology of Galapagos, 378, 394 
Osorno, volcano of, 278, 275, 291 
Ostrich, habits of, 43, 89 
Ostrich’s eggs, 113 
Otaheite, 403 
Otter, 287 
Ova in sea, 17 
Oven-bird, 95 
Owen, Capt., ona drought in Africa, 
133 
-—, Professor, on the Capybara, 50 
fossil quadrupeds, 
81 to 84, 130, 155 
nostrus of the 
Gallinazo, 185 
Owl of Pampas, 70, 125 
Oxyurus, 237, 289 
Oysters, gigantic, 170 
Paint, white, 221 
Pallas on Siberia, 67 
Palm-trees in La Plata, 46 
in Chile, 256 
———, south limit of, 244 
Palms absent at Galapagos, 375 
