INDEX 



557 



Knowledge of various kinds required for 

 study of geographical distribution, 

 7,9 



L. 



Lagopus scoticus, 340 



Land as a barrier to ocean-currents, 150 



Land and sea, changes of, 83 



how changes of, affect climate, 148, 

 150 



Land and water, disproportion of, ren- 

 ders globe habitable, 209 

 Land-birds of Celebes, list of, 465 

 Land-connection, how far necessary to 



dispersal of mammals, 73 

 Land-shells, great antiquity of, 79 

 vmiversal distribution of, 79 

 causes favouring the abundance of, 

 79 



of the Azores, 256 



of Bermuda, 270 



of the Galapagos, 284 



of St. Helena, 304 



of the Sandwich Islands, 317 



of the Seychelles, 434 

 Laurus canariensis, 260 

 Legonat on animals of Bourbon, 435 



on the Solitaire, 436 

 Leguminosse, abundance of, in Australia, 

 490 



" Lemuria," a supposed submerged con- 

 tinent, 422-426 



Lemurs in Madagascar, 416 



Lendenfeld, Dr, R. von, on glaciation in 

 the Australian Alps, 163 



Leopard, enormous I'ange of, 14 



Lepidoptera, list of peculiar IJritish, 346a 



Lepidosiren, 63 



Lepidosiren paradoxa and L. annectcns, 

 69 



Lepidosternidse, 27 



Limestone as indicating change of sea 



and land, 84 

 Limncea involuta, 356 

 Linaria purpurea, on railway bank, 51 

 Uopelma hochstetteri, in New Zealand, 



483 



Liotrichidse, 29 



List of the land-birds of Celebes, 465 

 Lizard peculiar to the Mascarene Islands, i 

 439 1 

 Lizards of the Galapagos, 278 I 

 local variation of colour of, 431 j 

 of New Zealand, 483 

 Lobeliacese, abundance of, in the Sand- 

 wich Islands, 324 ! 

 Locality of a species, importance of, 12 ' 

 Doddigesia mirabilis, rarity of, 16 { 

 Lord, Mr., on species of Urotrichus, 

 394 



Low-grade and high-grade heat, 145 

 Lowlands nowhere covered with per- 

 petual snow, 136 

 Lundy Island, peculiar beetles of, 353 

 Lyell, Sir Charles, on permanence of con- 

 tinents, 84 



Lyell, Sir Charles, on calcareous mud 90 

 on the distribution of chalk, 93 

 on geographical causes as modifying 



climate, 148 

 on estimate of geological time, 211, 



235 



on classification of sedimentary 

 rocks, 217. 

 Lynxes, a Paltearctic group, 41 



M. 



McLachlan, Mr., on peculiar British 



caddis-flies, 353 

 Madagascar, physical features of, 412 



former condition of, 414 



biological features of, 416 



mammalia of, 416 



reptiles of, 417 



relation of, to Africa, 418 



early history of, 419 



birds of, in relation to "Lemuria," 

 422 



flora of, 439 



conclusion on fauna and flora of, 

 446 



gi-eat antiquity of, 446 

 iVlrtdagascar and Africa, contrast of, 6 

 iVIaillard on animals of Bourbon, 435 

 Malay Islands, local peculiarities of flora 

 in, 187 



past history of, 389 

 Malayan birds in Formosa, 406 

 Mammalia of East Asia, range of, 34 



of North Africa, range of, 34 

 Mammalia, dispersal of, 73 



of Britain, range of, 33 

 poverty of, 329 



of Borneo, 376 



of Java, 382 



of the Philippines, 386 



of Japan, 393 



of Formosa, 402 



common to Formosa and India, 403 

 of Madagascar, 416 

 of Comoro Islands, 428 

 of Celebes, 455a, whence derived, 456 

 of New Zealand, 474 

 Maori legend of origin of the forest-rat, 

 475 



Maoris, their accounts of the moa, 477 

 Map of the old Rhone glacier, 110 



of North and South Polar Regions, 

 138 



of the Azores, 248 

 of Bermuda, 263 

 of the Galapagos, 276, 277 

 of the South Atlantic Ocean, 293 

 of the Sandwich Islands, 311 

 of the North Pacific with its sub- 

 merged banks, 312 

 of British Isles and the 100-fathom 



bank, 333 

 of Borneo and Java, 374 

 of Japan and Formosa, 392 

 physical, of Madagascar, 413 

 of the Madagascar group, 415 



