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INDEX 
Gold-washing, 284 
Good Success Bay, 214 
Gossamer spider, 169 
Gould, Mr., on the Calodera, 132 
on birds of Galapagos, 404 
Granite mountains, Tres Montes, 301 
of Cordillera, 342 
Graspus, 10 
Gravel, how far transported, 113 
of Patagonia, 78, 180 
Graves of Indians, 179 
Greenstone, fragments of, 274 
Gregory, Cape, 245 
Gryllus migratorius, 352 
Guanaco, habits of, 175, 197 
fossil allied genus, 182 
Guantajaya, mines of, 387 
Guardia del Monte, 124 
Guasco, 367, 371, 375 
Guasos of Chile, 275 
Guava imported into Tahiti, 430 
Guinea-fowl, 5 > 5 2 3 
Guitron, 279 
Gunnera scabra, 298 
Gypsum, great beds of, 342 
in salt-lake, 68 
in Patagonian tertiary beds, 180 
at Iquique with salt, 388 
at Lima with shells, 392 
Hachette, M., on lightning-tubes, 62 
Hacienda, condor, and cactus, 271 
Hail-storm, 121 
Hall, Capt. Basil, on terraces of 
Coquimbo, 367 
Hare, Varying, 47 
Head, Capt., on thistle-beds, 125, 130 
Height of snow-line on Cordillera, 259 
Henslow, Prof., on potatoes, 304 
on plants of Keeling Island, 483 
Hermit crabs, 486 
Hide Bridge, 334 
Hill emitting a noise, 385 
Himantopus, 120 
Hippah, New Zealand, 458 
Hobart Town and Mount Wellington, 
475 
Hogoleu barrier-reef, 499 
Holes made by a bird, 99 
Holman on drifted seeds, 484 
Holothurise feeding on coral, 494 
Homeward bound, 531 
Hooker, Sir J., on the Cardoon, 125 
Dr. J. D., on the kelp, 253 
on Galapageian plants, 418, 421 
Horn, Cape, 223 
Horner, Mr., on a calcareous deposit, 10 
Horse, swimming powers of, 152 
Horse, wild at the Falkland Islands, 202 
fossil of extinct species of, 86, 138 
Hoi'se-fly, 180 
Horsemanship of the Gauchos, 162, 206 
Horses difficult to drive, 1x5 
drop excrement on paths, 125 
killed by great droughts, 141 
multiplication of, 247 
broken in, 160 
Hot springs of Cauquenes, 281 
Huacas, 394, 396 
Humboldt on burnished rocks, 12 
on the atmosphere in tropics, 33 
on frozen soil, 93 
on hybernation, 102 
on potatoes, 304 
on earthquakes and rain, 375 
on miasma, 390, 463 
Humming-birds of Rio de Janeiro, 33 
of Chiloe, 289 
Hurtado, 113 
Hybernation of animals, 102 
Hydrochserus capybara, 40, 51 
Hydrophobia, 377 
Hyla, 30 
Hymenophallus, 34 
Ibis melanops, 175 
Ice, prismatic structure of, 347 
Icebergs, 197, 237, 260 to 267 
Incas’ bridge, 357, 3So, 394 
Incrustations on coast rocks, 9, 12 
Indian fossil remains, 395 
Indians, attacks of, 66, 80, 136 
antiquarian relics of, 48, 109 
Araucanian, 66, 321 
of the Pampas, 105 
decrease in numbers of, 108 
grave of, 179, 198 
Patagonian, 245 
perforated stones used by, 285 
Valdivian, 321 
powers of tracking, 350 
ruins of houses of, 380, 384, 392 
Infection, 463 
Infusoria in dust in the Atlantic, 5 
in the sea, 16, 168 
in the Pampas, 87, 137 
in Patagonia, 180 
in white paint, 234 
in coral mud, 494 
at Ascension, 525 
Insects first colonists of St. Paul’s rocks, 
10 
blown out to sea, 168 
of Patagonia, 180, 349 
