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GENERAL INDEX 



Beirao, C. M. F. da, concerning plants 

 from the Azores, 364, 434, 439 



Bentham, on plant-distribution, 324, 327, 

 329, 330, 354; Acacia farnesiana, 166, 

 171; Cassytha, 191, 193; Chrysobala- 

 nus icaco, 196; Dioclea reflexa. 131; 

 Dodonsea viscosa, 206; Mucuna, 121, 

 459 ; St. Helena flora, 460 ; Thespesia 

 populnea, 244 



Bent-stone. See Buesteen. 



Berghaus, H., on bottle-drift, 46, 81 



Bermuda; its stranded bottle-drift, 49, 

 51-54, 62, 65, 466-471; its relation 

 to the currents, 466-471 ; West Indian 

 seed-drift on its shores, 38, 139, 158, 

 468 ; flora, 146, 204, 466; geology, 259, 

 273, 502; supposed continental con- 

 nection, 466 



Beta maritima, 384, 404, 420, 447, 448, 

 450 



vulgaris = Beta maritima. 



Bibliographies, or lists of works quoted : 

 botanical works, at the beginning of 

 volume; West Indian seed-drift on 

 European shores, 42 ; bottle-drift, 81 ; 

 geology of the Turks Islands and 

 Bahamas, 276; current-connections in 

 southern hemisphere, 312 ; concerning 

 plant -distribution, 330; plants of the 

 Azores, 439 



Bigbury Bay (South Devon); West 

 Indian seed-drift, 28, 134 



Birds; as seed-dispersers, 32, 175, 192, 

 198, 252, 291, 294, 354, 418-^22, 435, 

 437, 450, 454, 489, 499, 500 ; sea-birds, 

 32, 294, 421, 499, 500; pigeons, 175, 

 192, 198, 252, 418, 435, 454, 489; 

 parrots, 175; wild ducks, 420 



and Currents associated in seed- 

 dispersal, 192, 230, 232, 252 



migration to Africa, 354; to the 



West Indies, 500 



Biscay, Bay of; stranded bottle-drift 

 49, 52-56. (At least two -thirds of the 

 bottles included in the tables as re- 

 covered on the coasts of France and 

 Spain would be placed under this head. ) 



Black River. See Jamaica. 



Blechnum spicant, 371, 374, 377 



Blue Hole. See Jamaica. 



" Blue Jacket," figurehead washed ashore 

 at Fremantle, 296, 298 



Boa constrictor, stranded on St. Vincent, 

 486 



Boid, on the ascent of Pico, 361, 372, 439 

 Bolle, on Juniperus oxycedrus in the 



Canaries, 408 

 Bontia daphnoides (Barbados olive), 198, 



286 



Boobies, swallowing seeds of Guilandina 



bonducella, 32 

 BoodJei on the character of the timber 



of a buried Azorean tree, 395 



Borago officinalis, 491 



Borgesen, on West Indian seeds stranded 

 on the Faroe Islands, 35, 42 



Borrera thymifolia, 285, 286, 288 



Borrichia arborescens, 87, 183, 194, 202, 

 279-283, 286, 289-291, 451, 452 



Bottle-drift : 



Chapter dealing with, 46-82; drifting 

 rates, 64-71; summary, 78; tables, 

 52, 53, 57, 61, 65, 66, 67, 71, 462, 464, 

 466, 475; history of the investiga- 

 tion and sources of materials, 46, 

 47; the value of bottle-drift data, 

 48 ; proportion of recoveries, 48, and 

 the associated difficulties, 49 ; tracks 

 of bottles thrown over together, 

 49; divergent tracks of derelicts 

 and casks, 50 

 Illustration by bottle-drift of the 

 distribution by the equatorial cur- 

 rents of seed-drift over the West 

 Indies, 72 ; the burden of the Main 

 Equatorial current, 73; the island 

 of Trinidad as a centre of seed-drift 

 dispersal, 74; the transport of 

 Amazon drift to the West Indies, 

 Florida, and Europe, 75 ; the balance 

 of the account between the Old and 

 the New World, 76; drift carried 

 by currents round Cape Horn, Cape 

 Agulhas, and the North Cape, 78 

 Surface-circulation of the North At- 

 lantic, 51 ; the passage of bottle- 

 drift from the West Indies to 

 Europe, 52, and from Europe and 

 North-West Africa to the West 

 Indies, 58 

 The currents of the South Atlantic, 59 ; 

 the transport of bottle-drift in the 

 Main Equatorial Current, 60; the 

 South Equatorial and the Brazil 

 currents, 62; the current-connec- 

 tions of the South Atlantic with the 

 Indian and Pacific Oceans as indi- 

 cated by bottle-drift, 63 

 The difficulties connected with the 

 drift-rates of bottles across the 

 Atlantic, 64; the drift-rates from 

 the West Indies to Europe, 65, 66 ; 

 from Europe to the West Indies, 

 66, 67, 68; from tropical Africa to 

 Brazil and the West Indies, 67, 69; 

 from off the Amazon estuary to 

 Florida, 70, and in the Brazil current, 

 70 ; general results for the Atlantic, 

 71 



See Africa, Amazon, America, Ant- 

 arctic latitudes, Antilles (Greater and 

 Lesser), Antillean Stream, Arctic 

 latitudes, Ascension, Atlantic, Aus- 

 tralia, Azores, Bahamas, Bermuda, 

 etc. 



Boulogne, West Indian drift -seed, 28 



