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INDEX. 



Geology of Borneo, 350 



of Madagascar, 384 



of Celebes, 422 



of New Zealand, 443 



of Australia, 465 

 Geomalacus macuJosus, 333 

 Glacial climate not local, 112 



deposits of Scotland, 109 

 Glacial epocli, proofs of, 104 



effects of on animal life, 113 



alternations of climate during, 114 



as causing migration and extinction, 119 



causes of, 121 



the essentials to the production of, 130 



probable date of the, 155 



and the climax of continental develop- 

 ment, 199 



date of last, 225 

 Glacial phenomena in North America, 112 

 Glaciation was greatest where rainfall is 



now greatest, 134 

 Glaciation, summary of chief causes of, 139 



in Northern Hemisphere, the only 

 efficient cause of, 143 



of New Zealand and South Africa, 157 



local, due to high excentricitj', 199 



widespread in recent times, 504 

 Gleichenia in Greenland, 179 

 Globigerina-ooze, analysis of, 89 



in relation to chalk, 87 

 Globigerinse, where found, 89, 90 

 Glyptostrobus, 179 



Goats, destructiveness of, in St. Helena, 285 

 Godman, Mr., on birds reaching the Azores, 

 242 



Godenia, 179 



Great Britain and Jajian, birds common to, 

 368 



Greene, Dr. J. Eeay, on chameleons in 

 Bourbon and Mauritius, 406 



Greenland, loss of sun-heat by clouds in, 

 141 



an anomaly in the Northern Hemi- 

 sphere, 149 



Miocene flora of, 177 



Cretaceous flora of, 179 



flora of ice-surroimded rocks of, 4G0 

 Grinnell Land, fossil flora of, 178 

 Guernsey, peculiar caddis-fly in, 337 

 Guiick, Rev. J. T., on AchatineUinse, 304 

 Giinther, Dr., on peculiar British lishes, 321 



on lizards in the London Docks, 402 



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Haast, Dr., on otter-like mammal in New 



Zealand, 446 

 on Kauri-tree in Cretaceous beds of Nev>' 



Zealand, 468 

 Habitability of globe due to disproi)ortion 



of land and water, 201 

 Ilaplothorax burchellii, 288 

 Ilartlaub, Dr., on "Lemuria," 394, 409 

 Hdtteria punctata, 454 



Haughton, Professor, on heat carried by 

 ocean-currents, 187 

 comparison of Miocene and existing 



climates, 190 

 on geological time, 204, 216 

 on thickness of sedimentary rocks, 212 

 Hawaiian fauna and flora, antiquity of, 309 

 Heat and cold, how dispersed or istored up, 

 128 



Heat required to melt snow, 129 



evolved by frozen water, its nature and 

 effects, 140 



Heat cut off by cloud and fogs, 140 

 Hector, Dr., on ancient flora of New Zea- 

 land, 467 



on Triassic and Jurassic flora of New 



Zealand, 494 

 Hecr, Professor, on chalk sea in Central 



Europe, 91 

 Ildianthemum drexoeri, 339 

 Pleliodus, 68 

 Helix, 17 



Hemiptera of St. Helena, 292 

 Hepaticse, peculiar British, 342 



non-European genera of in Britain, 343 

 Hesperomys, 25 



Hesperornis allied to ostriches, 451 



Hieracium iricim, 339 



High land essential to the production of a 



glacial epoch, 130 

 Himalayan bu'ds and insects in Celebes, 



433 



Hippopotamus in Yorkshire as proving a 



mild climate, 115—117 

 Hirundo, 25 



Hochstetter on the aquatic mammal of New 



Zealand, 446 

 Hooker, Sir Joseph, on the Galapagos flora, 



276 



on affinities of St. Helena plants, 295 



on the flora of New Zealand, 457 



on proportion of temperate and tropical 



Australian floras, 461 

 on current of vegetation from north to 



south, 478 



on supposed occurrence of Australian 

 plants in England in the Tertiary 

 period, 486 

 Humming-birds, restricted ranges of, 16 

 Hutton, Captain, on struthious birds of New 



Zealand, 449 

 Huxley, Professor, on geological time, 204 

 on European origin of African animals, 

 390 



Hyalina Bermudensis, 260 



circumfirmata, 260 



discrepans, 260 

 Hyomoschus, 27 



Hyracoidea, restricted range of, 29 



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Ice-action, what evidences of during the 



Tertiary period, 171 

 indications of ancient, 194 

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



170 



in Miocene of N. Italy, 171 

 in Eocene of Alps, 172 

 in Eocene of Carpathians and Apennines, 

 172 



absence of, in English and N. American 

 Tertiaries, 174 

 Ice-cap, Mhy improbable or impossible, 156 

 Iceland, a continental island, 421 

 Icteridse, 49 

 Iguanidse, 49 



Indian birds in Formosa, 378 

 Indian ocean as a source of heat in Tertiary 

 times, 188 



Indian genera of plants in Australia, 462 

 Indicator, distribution of, 25 

 Insectivora in Madagascar, 389 

 Insects, dispersal of, 75 



of the Miocene period, 75 



restriction of range of, 75 



of the Azores, 244 



of Bermuda, 230 



