ABBOTT, Mr., on spiders, 36

Aborigines banished from Van Diemen's

Land, 475

of Australia, 430 to 458

Abrolhos Islands, 9, 14

Absence of trees in Pampas, 48

Aconcagua, volcano of, 269, 294, 312
Actinia, stinging species, 494

Africa, Southern part desert, yet sup-
ports large animals, 89

Ageronia feronia, 39
Agouti, habits of, 72
Ague common in Peru, 389
Albemarle Island, 401, 420
Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 14

on Holothuriæ, 494

Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, 367
stratified, in Andes, 333
Amblyrhynchus, 401, 411
Anas, species of, 210
Animalculæ. See Infusoria
Antarctic islands, 263
Antipodes, 444

Ants at Keeling Island, 485