INDEX 
545 
Insects of Tierra del Fuego, 253 
of Galapagos, 403, 417, 419 
of Keeling Island, 485 
of St. Helena, 520 
Instincts of birds, 96, 423 
Iodine with salt at Iquique, 388 
Iquique, 386 
Iron, oxide ot, on rocks, 12 
Irregular troops, 85 
Islands, oceanic, volcanic, 8 
Antarctic, 263 
floating, 283 
low, 429, 497 
Jackson, Col., on frozen snow, 347 
Jaguar, habits of, 143 
Jajuel, mines of, 276 
James Island, 402, 420 
Jemmy Button, 218, 233 
Juan Fernandez, volcano of, 332 
flora of, 418 
Kangaroo-hunting, 469 
Kater’s Peak, 224 
Kauri pine, 454 
Keeling Island, 481 
inside an atoll, 481 
flora of, 483 
birds of, 485, 486 
entomology of, 486 
subsidence of, 504 
Birgos latro, 512 
Kelp, or seaweed, 253, 254 
Kendall, Lieut., on a frozen body, 263 
Kingfishers, 2, 147 
King George’s Sound, 478 
Kororadika, 447, 453 
Labourers, condition of, in Chile, 285 
Lagoon-islands, 429, 482, 489, 495 
Lagostomus, 130 
Lake, brackish, near Rio, 22 
with floating islands, 283 
formed during earthquake, 395 
Lamarck on acquired blindness, 53 
Lampyris, 31 
Lancaster, Capt., on a sea-tree, 105 
Land-shells, 371, 519, 520 
Las Minas, 43 
Lazo, 46, 160, 201 
Leaves, 250 
fossil, 477 
Leeks in New Zealand, imported, 455 
Lemuy Island, 295, 297 
Lepus Magellanicus, 203 
Lesson, M., on the scissor-bealc, 147 
on rabbit of the Falklands, 203 
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Lichen on loose sand, 387 
Lichtenstein on ostriches, 96 
Lightning storms, 63 
tubes, 61 
Lima, 389, 392 
and San Lorenzo, 360 
elevation of a river near, 383 
Lime, changed by lava into crystalline 
rock, 6 
Limnsea in brackish water, 2 
Lion-ant, 470 
Lizard, 102 
marine species of, 407 
Lizards, transport of, 404 
Llama or guanaco, habits of, 175 
Locusts, 351 
Longevity of species in Mollusca, 87 
Lorenzo, San, island of, 393 
Low Archipelago, 429, 497 
Luciano, story of, 117 
Lumb, Mr., 158, 164 
Lund, M., on antiquity of man, 382 
Lund and Clausen on fossils of Brazil, 
138, 183 
Luxan, 130, 351 
Luxuriant vegetation not necessaiy to 
support large animals, 89 
Lycosa, 36 
Lyell, Mr., on terraces of Coquimbo, 
367 
on longevity of Mollusca, 87 
on change in vegetation, 126 
on fossil horses’ teeth, 137 
on flocks of butterflies, 168 
on extinct mammals and ice-period, 
184 
on stones twisted by earthquakes, 329 
on frozen snow, 347 
on distribution of animals, 349 
on subsidence in the Pacific, 498 
MacCulloch on infection, 464 
Macquarie river, 471 
Macrauchenia, 86, 182 
Macrocystis, 253 
Madrina, or godmother of a troop of 
mules, 336 
Magdalen channel, 255 
Magellan, flora of, 265 
H.M.S. Beagle in Straits of. Frontis¬ 
piece 
Straits of, 229, 244 
Port Famine, 246 
kelp of, 267 
Malays, 482 
Malcolmson, Dr., on hail, 122 
Maldiva atolls, 496, 505, 507 
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