INDEX 



545 



Insects of Tierra del Fuego, 253 



of Galapagos, 403, 417, 419 



of Keeling Island, 485 



of St. Helena, 520 

 Instincts of birds, 96, 423 

 Iodine with salt at Iqi ique, 388 

 Iquique, 386 



Iron, oxide of, on rocks, 12 

 Irregular troops, 85 

 Islands, oceanic, volcanic, 8 



Antarctic, 263 



floating, 283 



low, 429, 497 



Jackson, Col., on frozen snow, 347 

 Jaguar, habits of, 143 

 Jajuel, mines of, 276 

 James Island, 402, 420 

 Jemmy Button, 218, 233 

 Juan Fernandez, volcano of, 332 

 flora of, 418 



Kangaroo-hunting, 469 

 Kater's Peak, 224 

 Kauri pine, 454 

 Keeling Island, 481 



inside an atoll, 481 



flora of, 483 



birds of, 485, 486 



entomology of, 486 



subsidence of, 504 



Birgos latro, 512 

 Kelp, or seaweed, 253, 254 

 Kendall, Lieut., on a frozen body, 263 

 Kingfishers, 2, 147 

 King George's Sound, 478 

 Kororadika, 447, 453 



Labourers, condition of, in Chile, 285 

 Lagoon-islands, 429, 482, 489, 495 

 Lagostomus, 130 

 Lake, brackish, near Rio, 22 



with floating islands, 283 



formed during earthquake, 395 

 Lamarck on acquired blindness, 53 

 Lampyris, 31 



Lancaster, Capt., on a sea-tree, 105 

 Land-shells, 371, 519, 520 

 Las Minas, 43 

 Lazo, 46, 160, 201 

 Leaves, 250 



fossil, 477 

 Leeks in New Zealand, imported, 455 

 Lemuy Island, 295, 297 

 Lepus Magellanicus, 203 

 Lesson, M., on the scissor-beak, 147 



on rabbit of the Falklands, 203 



Lichen on loose sand, 387 

 Lichtenstein on ostriches, 96 

 Lightning storms, 63 



tubes, 61 

 Lima, 389, 392 



and San Lorenzo, 360 



elevation of a river near, 383 

 Lime, changed by lava into crystalline 



rock, 6 

 Limn^ea in brackish water, 2 

 Lion-ant, 470 

 Lizard, 102 



marine species of, 407 

 Lizards, transport of, 404 

 Llama or guanaco, habits of, 175 

 Locusts, 351 



Longevity of species in Mollusca, 87 

 Lorenzo, San, island of, 393 

 Low Archipelago, 429, 497 

 Luciano, story of, 117 

 Lumb, Mr., 158, 164 

 Lund, M., on antiquity of man, 382 

 Lund and Clausen on fossils of Brazil, 



138, 183 

 Luxan, 130, 351 

 Luxuriant vegetation not necessaiy to 



support large animals, 89 

 Lycosa, 36 

 Lyell, Mr., on terraces of Coquimbo, 



367 

 on longevity of Mollusca, 87 

 on change in vegetation, 126 

 on fossil horses' teeth, 137 

 on flocks of butterflies, 168 

 on extinct mammals and ice-period, 



184 

 on stones twisted by earthquakes, 329 

 on frozen snow, 347 

 on distribution of animals, 349 

 on subsidence in the Pacific, 498 



MacCulloch on infection, 464 



Macquarie river, 471 



Macrauchenia, 86, 182 



Macrocystis, 253 



Madrina, or godmother of a troop of 



mules, 336 

 Magdalen channel, 255 

 Magellan, flora of, 265 



H.M.S. Beagle in Straits of, Frontis- 

 piece 



Straits of, 229, 244 



Port Famine, 246 



kelp of, 267 

 Malays, 482 



Malcolmson, Dr., on hail, 122 

 Maldiva atolls, 496, 505, 507 



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