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INDEX 
Tattooing, 430, 439 
Temperance of the Tahitians, 438 
Temperature of Tierra del Fuego and 
Falkland Islands, 244 
of Galapagos, 399, 403 
Tercero. Rio, fossils in banks of, 134 
Terraces in valleys of Cordillera, 337 
of Patagonia, 181, 190 
of Coquimbo, 367 
Tertiary formations of the Pampas, 86, 
13 6 > 165 
of Patagonia, 180, 349 
in Chile, epochs of, 368 
Teru-tero, habits of, 120 
Testudo, two species of, 420 
Abingdonii, 397 
Nigra, habits of, 408 
Theory of lagoon-islands, 499 
Theristicus melanops, 175 
Thistle beds, 125, 130, 157 
Thunder-storms, 63 
Ti, liliaceous plant, 437 
Tierra del Fuego, 215 to 257 
climate and vegetation of, 250, 257 
zoology of, 251 
entomology of, 253 
Tinamus rufescens, 119 
Tinochorus rumicivorus, 98 
Toad, habits of, 101 
not found in oceanic islands, 407 
Torrents in Cordillera, 338, 343 
Tortoise, habits of, 408, 420 
Toxodon, 86, 134, 137, 164 
Transparency of air in Andes, 358 
in St. Jago, 4 
Transport of boulders, 190, 262 
of fragments of rock on banks of the 
St. Cruz river, 190 
of seeds, 418, 484 
of stones in roots of trees, 491 
Travertin with leaves of trees, Van 
Diemen’s Land, 479 
Tree-ferns, 478 
southern limits of, 258 
Trees, absence of, in Pampas, 48 
time required to rot, 322 
silicified, vertical, 376 
size of, 377 
floating, transport stones, 490 
Tres Montes, 301 
Trichodesmium, 15 
Trigonocephalus, 100 
Tristan d’Acunha, 426, 485 
Trochilus forficatus, 268 
Tropical scenery, 526 
Tschudi, M., on subsidence, 393 
Tubes, siliceous, formed by lightning, 61 
Tucutuco, habits of, 52 
fossil species of, 87 
Tuff, craters of, 398 
infusoria in, 525 
Tupungato, volcano of, 347 
Turco, El, 288 
Turkey buzzard, 60, 192, 303 
Turtle, manner of catching, 488 
Type of organisation in Galapagos 
Islands, American, 423 
Types of organisation in different 
countries, constant, 182 
Tyrannus savana, 147 
Ulloa on hydrophobia, 377 
on Indian buildings, 380 
Unaniie, Dr., on hydrophobia, 377 
Uruguay, Rio, 147, 152 
not crossed by the Bizcacha, 131 
Uspallata range and pass, 353 
Vac as, Rio, 355 
Valdivia, 318 
forests of, 319, 322 
Valley of St. Cruz, how excavated, 190 
dry, at Copiapo, 380 
Valleys, excavation of, in Chile, 343, 383 
of New South Wales, 46 
in Cordillera, 343 
of Tahiti, 437, 439 
Valparaiso, 268, 335 
Vampire bat, 22, 23 
Van Diemen’s Land, 474 
Vanellus cayanus, 120 
Vanessa, flocks of, 168 
Vanikoro, 500, 504 
Vapour from forests, 25 
Vegetation of St. Helena, changes of, 
519 
luxuriant, not necessary to support 
large animals, 89 
on opposite sides of Cordillera, 349 
Ventana, Sierra, 71, 112 
Verbena melindres, 42 
Vilipilli, 315 
Villa Vicencio, 353 
Villarica volcano, 332 
Virgin forest, 25 
Virgularia Patagonica, 104 
Volcanic bombs, 524 
cellular formation of, 524 
islands, 8 
phenomena, 331 
Volcanoes near Chiloe, 294, 300, 312, 
332 
their presence determined by elevation 
or subsidence, 496 
