522 
INDEX. 
Maillard on animals of Bourbon, 406 
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, 851 
of Java, 856 
of the Philippines, 361 
of Japan, 365 
of Formosa, 874 
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 forest-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 
banks, 800 
of British Isles and the 100-fathom 
bank, 814 
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, 899, 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 
Megalsemidae, 27 
Meleagris, 49 
Melilotus vulgaris on railway banks, 481 
Meliphagidte, 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 
effects 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 
Mollusca, dispersal of, 76 
Monotremata, restricted range of, 29 
Moraines, 105 
of Ivrea, 112 
Morgan, Mr. C. Lloyd, on thickness of for- 
mations not affected 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 brunneiceps, 433 
Mus, 17, 25 
Murray, Mr. J., on oceanic deposits, 84 
on chalk-like globigerina-ooze, 90 
My gale pyrenaica, range of, 15 
Myricafaya, 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 
