INDEX 



555 



Generic areas, 17 



Generic and Family distribution, 25 

 Genus, defined and illustrated, 17 

 Geographical change as a cause of glacia- 

 tion, 148 



changes, influence of, on climate, 

 150, 152 



Geographical changes, effect of, on Arctic 

 climates, 195 

 changes of Java and Borneo, 384 

 changes as modifying organisms, 228 

 Geological climates and geographical 

 conditions, 204 

 time, 210 



change, probably quicker in remote 



times, 223 

 time, value of the estimate of, 224 

 time, measurement of, 235 

 changes as aiding the migration of 



plants, 519 

 climates as affecting distribution, 



534 



climates, summary of causes of, 536 



time, summar}"- of views on, 539 

 Geology of Borneo, 375 



of Madagascar, 412 



of Celebes, 451 



of New Zealand, 472 



of Australia, 494 

 Gcomalacus maculosus, 857 

 Glacial climate not local, 113 



deposits of Scotland, 112 

 Glacial epoch, proofs of, 107 



effects of, on animal life, 117 



alternations of climate during, 118 



as causing migration and extinction , 

 122 



causes of, 125 



the essentials to the production of, 

 136 



probable date of the, 160 



and the climax of continental de- 

 velopment, 206 



date of last, 233 

 Glacial phenomena in North America, 

 116 



Glaciation was greatest where rainfall is 

 now greatest, 139 

 action of meteorological causes on, 

 142 



summary of chief causes of, 144 



in Northern Hemisphere, the only 



efficient cause of, 144 

 of New Zealand and South Africa, 162 

 local, due to high excentricity, 207 

 widespread in recent times, 536 



Gleichenia in Greenland, 186 

 in relation to chalk, 89 



Globigerina-ooze, analysis of, 91 



Globigerinaj, where found, 92 



Glyptostrobus, fossil, 186 



Goats, destructiveness of, in St. Helena, 

 295 



Godman, Mr., on birds reaching the 



Azores, 248, 250 

 Gray, Professor Asa, on extinction of 



European plants by the glacial 



epoch, 123 



Great Britain and Japan, birds common 



to, 396 



Greene, Dr. J. Reay, on chameleons in 

 Bourbon and Mauritius, 435 



Greenland, loss of sun-heat by clouds in, 

 147 



Greenland, an anomaly in the Northern 

 Hemisphere, 154 



Miocene, flora of, 183 



Cretaceous flora of, 186 



flora of ice-surrounded rocks of, 522 

 Grinnell Land, fossil flora of, 184 

 Groves, Messrs. H. and J., list of peculiar 



British flowering plants, 361 

 Guernsey, peculiar caddis-fly in, 353 

 Gulick, Rev. J. T., on Achatinellinae, 317 

 Giinther, Dr., on gigantic tortoises, 279 



on peculiar British fishes, 341 



on Urotrichus gibsii, 394 



on lizards in the London docks, 431 



on Indian toads in Mauritius, 438 

 Guppy , Mr. , on chalk of Solomon Islands, 

 91 



H. 



Haast, Dr., on otter-like mammal in 



New Zealand, 475 

 Habitability of globe due to disproportion 



of land and water, 209 

 Ildplothorax burchellii, 299 

 Hartlaub, Dr., on " Lemuria," 423, 426 

 Hatteria punctata, 483 

 Haughton, Professor, on heat carried by 

 ocean-currents, 194 

 comparison of Miocene and existing 



climates, 197 

 on geological time, 211, 219 

 on thickness of sedimentary rocks, 

 219 



Hawaiian fauna and flora, antiquity of, 



328 



Heat and cold, how dispersed or stored 

 up, 131 



Heat required to melt snow, 134 



evolved by frozen water, its nature 



and effects, 145 

 cut off by cloud and fogs, 145 

 Hector, Dr., on Triassic and Jurassic 



flora of New Zealand, 526 

 Heer, Professor, on chalk sea in Central 



Europe, 93 

 Heilprin, Professor, on insects of Ber- 

 muda, 269 

 on land-shells of Bermuda, 270 

 Helianthemum Breiceri, 361 

 Heliodus, an American fossil, 69 

 Helix, 17 



Hemiptera of St. Helena, 303 

 Hemsley, Mr. W. B., on plants peculiar 

 to Bermuda, 272 

 on number of flowering plants in 



Madagascar, 440 

 on additions to the flora of New 

 Zealand, 488 

 Hcipaticff!, peculiar British, 366 



non-European genera of, in Britain. 

 367 



