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INDEX. 



Maillard on animals of Bourbon, 408 

 Malay Islands, local peculiarities of flora in, 

 180 



past history of, 362 

 Malayan birds in Formosa, 378 

 Mammalia of East Asia, range of, 33 



of North Africa, range of, 34 



of Britain, poverty of, 319 



of Borneo, 351 



of Java, 356 



of the Philippines, 361 



of Japan, 865 



of Formosa, 374 



common to Formosa and India, 375 



of Madagascar, 388 



of Comoro Islands, 400 



of Celebes, 427 ; whence derived, 428 



of New Zealand, 444 

 Mann, Horace, on the flora of the Sandwich 



Islands, 306 

 Maori legend of origin of the fox-est-rat, 445 

 Maoris, their accounts of the moa, 448 

 Map of the old Rhone glacier, 107 

 Maps of North and South Polar Regions, 

 133 



Map of the Azores, 239 



of Bermuda, 254 



of the Galapagos, 266, 267 



of the South Atlantic Ocean, 282 



of the Sandwich Islands, 299 



of the North Pacific with its submerged 

 t banks, 300 



of British Isles and the 100-fathom 

 bank, 314 



of Borneo and Java, 349 



of Japan and Formosa, 364 



physical, of Madagascar, 385 



of the Madagascar group, 387 



of the Indian Ocean, 396 



of Celebes, 423 



of sea-bottom around New Zealand, 443 

 of Australia in Cretaceous period, 466 



Marcou, Professor Jules, on the pliocene and 

 glacial epochs, 226 



Marmot, range of, 15 



Mars as illustrating glacial theories, 158, 

 162 



Mars, no true ice-cap on, 160 

 Marsupials, range of, 29 

 Marsh, Prof, O. C, on the Atlantosaurus, 

 96 



on Hesperornis, 451 

 Marsh, Mr., on camels as desert-makers, 

 285 



Mascarene Islands, 399, 409 



Mascarene plants, curious relations of, 412 



endemic genera of, 413 

 Mascarene flora, fragmentary character of. 

 414 



abundance of ferns in, 416 

 Mauritius, Bourbon, and Rodriguez, 405 

 Measurements of geological time, 226 



agreement of various estimates of, 227 



concluding remarks on, 228 

 Medicago sativa in New Zealand, 483 

 Megalaemidse, 27 

 Meleagris, 49 



MelUotus vulgaris on railway banks, 481 

 Meliphagidse, 46 



Melliss, Mr., on the early history of St. 



Helena, 284 

 Melospiza melodia, variation of, 57 

 Merycotherium, 119 



Meteorological causes as intensifying glacia- 



tion, 137-139 

 Migration caused by glacial epoch, 119 



Migration of birds to Bermuda, 258 

 of plants from north to south, 480 

 of plants and alterations of snow line, 

 484 



of plants due to changes of climate, 485 

 of plants from north to south, long 



continued, 486 

 of plants aided by geological changes, 



487 



of plants by way of Himalayas and 

 South Asia, 491 



of plants by way of the Andes, 488 



of plants through Africa, 492 

 Mild Arctic climates, stratigraphical evi- 

 dence of, 181 



causes of, 183 



dependent on geographical changes, 184 

 eff'ects of high excentricity on, 191 

 summary of causes of, 503 



Miocene Arctic flora, 176 



Miocene flora of Europe, 117 



Miocene or Eocene floras, 178 



Miocene deposits of Java, 359 



Miocene fauna of Europe and North India, 

 390 



Mississippi, matter carried away by, 166 

 Mitten, Mr. William, on peculiar British 

 mosses and hepaticse, 341 

 on temporary appearance of plants, 481 

 Mniotiltidae, 48 



Mnium, peculiar species of in the Drontheim 

 mountains, 434 



Moas of New Zealand, 447 



MoUusca, dispersal of, 76 



Monotremata, restricted range of, 29 



Moraines, 105 

 of Ivrea, 112 



Morgan, Mr. C. Lloyd, on thickness of for- 

 mations not aff'ected by denudation, 

 213 



Moseley, Mr. H. N., on seeds carried by 

 birds, 250 



on the flora of Bermuda, 262 

 Mosses, peculiar British, 341 



non-European genera of in Britain, 342 



how diffused and why restricted, 344 

 Mt. St. Elias, why not ice-clad, 149 

 Mountain chains aiding the dispersal _ of 

 plants, 79 



as aids to migration of plants, 480 

 Munia hrunneiceps, 433 

 Mus, 17, 25 



Murray, Mr. J., on oceanic deposits, 84 



on chalk-like globigerina-ooze, 90 

 My gale pijrenaica, range of, 15 

 Myrica faya, 251 

 Myialestes helianthea, 433 

 Myrsine, 179 



N. 



Nares, Capt. Sir G., on snow and ice in 

 high latitudes, 130 



on abrupt elevation of Bermuda, 255 

 Nearctic Region, definition of, 47 



mammalia of, 47 



birds of, 48 



reptiles of, 49 

 Nectarinea osea, restricted range of, 15 

 Neilgherries, Australian plants naturalized 

 in, 496 



Neotropical Region, definition of, 50 



low types of, 51 

 Nevill, Mr. Geoffrey, on land-shells of the 

 Seychelles, 405 



on destruction of Seychelles flora, 415 



