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INDEX 



Hesperomys, 26 



Hesperomis allied to ostriches, 481 

 High land essential to the production of 



a glacial epoch, 195 

 Hildebrand, Dr. W., on flora of the 



Sandwich Islands, 321 

 Himalayan birds and insects in Celebes, 



462 



Hippopotamus in Yorkshire as proving 



a mild climate, 119 

 Hochstetter on the aquatic mammal of 



New Zealand, 475 

 Hooker, Sir Joseph, on the Galapagos 



flora, 288 



on affinities of St. Helena plants, 306 

 on peculiar British plants, 360, 363 

 on the flora of New Zealand, 488 

 on proportion of temperate and 



tropical Australian floras, 492 

 on current of vegetation from north 



to south, 510 

 on supposed occurrence of Austi-alian 

 plants in England in the Tertiary 

 period, 518 

 llornc, Mr. John, on ice-sheet covering 



the Isle of Man, 115 

 Hull, Professor, on Permian breccias in 



Ireland indicating ice-action, 201 

 Humming-birds, restricted range of, 16 

 Hutton, Captain, on struthious birds of 



New Zealand, 478 

 Huxley, Professor, on geological time, 

 211 



on European origin of African ani- 

 mals, 419 

 Hyomoschus, 27 



Hyracoidea, restricted range of, 30 



Icc-action, what evidences of, during the 



Tertiary period, 178 

 indications of ancient, 200 

 Ice-borne rocks, a test of a glacial epoch, 



176 



in Miocene of N. Italy, 178 



in Eocene of Alps, 178 



in Eocene of Carpathians and Apen- 

 nines, 179 



absence of, in English and N. Ameri- 

 can Tertiaries, 180 

 Ice-cap, why improbable or impossible, 

 161 



Iceland, a continental island, 450 

 Icteridse, 50 

 Iguanidse, 50 



Indian birds in Formosa, 40(i 



Indian Ocean as a source of heat in Ter- 

 tiary times, 192 



Indian genera of plants in Australia, 

 492 



Indicator, distribution of, 25 

 Insectivora in Madagascar, 417 

 Insects, dispersal of, 77 



of the Miocene period, 77 



restriction of range of, 78 



of the Azores, 253 



Insects of Bermuda, 269 

 of the Galapagos, 284 

 of St. Helena, 298 

 of the Sandwich Islands, 318 

 peculiar British, 344 

 of Celebes, peculiarities of, 462 

 scarcity of, in New Zealand, 505 

 Insular faunas, summary of conclusions 



as to, 539, 542 

 Interglacial warm periods on the conti- 

 nent and in North America, 121 

 Interglacial periods and their probable 



character, 152 

 Interglacial periods will not occur during 

 an epoch of extreme glaciation, 155 

 Interglacial climates never very warm, 

 159 



Ireland, poverty of, in reptiles, 339 

 in plants, 339 

 peculiar fishes of, 342 

 plants of, not found in Great Britain, 

 364 



Islands, classification of, 242 



importance of, in study of distribu- 

 tion, 241 



remote, how stocked with plants 



and animals, 261 

 submerged between Madagascar and 

 India, 424 

 Isle of Wight, peculiar beetle of, 349 

 /.satis tinctoria, on railway bank, 513 

 Ithaginis, 26 



J. 



Japan, zoological features of, 393 



mammalia of, 393 



birds of, 396 



birds peculiar to, 398 



birds in distant areas, 399 

 Japan and Formosa, 391 

 Java, fauna of, 381 



Asiatic species in, 383 

 Java and Borneo, past changes of, 384 

 Jays, distribution of species of, 20 



of Europe and Japan, 67 

 Jeffreys, Dr. Gwyn, on shallow-water 

 moUusca in chalk, 92 



on fossil shallow- water shells in deep 

 water, 337 



Jones, Mr., on migration of birds to 

 Bermuda, 268 

 on vegetation of the Bermudas, 272 

 Juan Fernandez, flora and fauna of, 287 

 Judd, Prof. J. W., on absence of glacia- 

 tion in east Europe, 139 

 on glaciation of the Alps produced by 

 elevation, 179 

 Jura, travelled blocks on, 110 

 Jurassic warm Arctic climate, 202 



K. 



Keeling Islands, animals of, 286 

 Kelvin, Lord, on age of the earth, 213 

 Kirk, Mr. T., on temporai-y introduced 

 plants, 515 



