Respiration
Andes, 326

Retrospect, 251

Revolutions at Buenos
Ayres, 139

Rhinoceroses live in desert
countries, 85

frozen, 88, 250
Rhynchops nigra, 136
Richardson, Dr, on mice of
North America, 383

on polished rocks, 253
-on frozen soil, 87, 253
--on eating fat, 116

on geographical dis-
tribution, 130
Rimsky atoll, 472
Rio de Janeiro, 18-37
Plata, 38

Negro, 62, 147
Colorado, 69
S. Cruz, 177
Sauce, 105
Salado, 117
Rivers, power of, in wearing
channels, 180, 325
River-bed, arched, 363
River-courses dry in
America, 107
Rocks burnished with fer-

ruginous matter, 12
Rodents, number of, in
America, 48, 179

fossil, species of, 81
Rosas, General, 70, 72, 139
Ruins of Callao, 373.

of Indian buildings in
Cordillera, 360, 373

SANTA CRUZ, 177
Salado, Rio, 117

Salinas at the Galapagos
Archipelago, 381

in Patagonia, 64, 169
Saline efflorescences, 76
Salt with vegetable food,

242

234,

Sauce, Rio, 105
Saurophagus sulphureus, 53
Scarus eating corals, 470
Scelidotherium, 81
Scenery of Andes, 321
Scissor-tail, 138
Scissor-beak, habit of, 136
Scorpions, cannibals, 165
Scoresby, Mr, on effects of
snow on rocks, 322
Scrope, Mr, on earthquakes,
356
Scytalopus fuscus, 238, 292
Sea, open, inhabitants of,
161

phosphorescence of, 162
distant noise of, 299
Sea-pen, habits of, 98, 203
Sea-weed, growth of, 241
Seals, number of, 286
Seeds transported by sea,
397, 459

Serpulæ, protecting reef,

at St Helena, 495
fossil of Cordillera, 324
of Galapagos, 395
elevated, 82, 128, 170,
256, 362, 374

tropical forms of, far
south, 244

decomposition of, with
salt, 374
Shepherd's dogs, 149
Shingle-bed of Patagonia,

74, 170

Siberia, compared
Patagonia, 66

with

- zoology of, related to
North America, 131

served in ice, 251

food necessary during
their existence, 88
Silicified trees, 336, 357,
Silurian formations at Falk-
land Islands, 196
Silurus, habits of, 135

red, 327
Society, state of, in La
Plata, 39, 155

in Australia, 448
Society Archipelago, 406
volcanic phenomena at,
481, 486

Soda, nitrate of, 369

sulphate of, 77
Soil, frozen, 88, 249
Spawn on surface of sea, 15
Species, distribution of, 129,
331, 364, 386, 392

extinction of, 173, 438,

445, 451, 493

Spiders, habits of, 33, 35,

159

gossamer, 159
killed by and killing
wasps, 35

on Keeling Island, 461
on St Paul's, 10

Springs, hot, 265

Stevenson, Mr, on growth
of sea-weed, 241
Stinging animals, 469
St Helena, 491

introduction of spirits
into, 416

Fé, 127

Jago, C. Verds, I
unhealthiness of, 370

367

Skunks, 79

Slavery, 22, 445, 504
Smelling-power of carrion-
hawks, 184

474-487

of Keeling Island, 481
of Patagonia, 171
of coast of Peru, 373
of Cordillera, 325, 337

Sydney, 435

TABANUS, 169
Tahiti (Otaheite), 407

three zones of fertility,

410
Talcahuano, 306

Tambillos, Ruinas de, 360
Tameness of birds, 403
Tapacolo and Turco, 272
Tapalguen, Sierra, flat hills
of quartz, 115
Tarn, Mount, 235
Tasmania, 451

Tattooing, 408, 425, 430
Temperance of the Tahitians,

415

Temperature of Tierra del
Fuego and Falkland
Islands, 244

of Galapagos, 378, 382
Tercero, Rio, fossils in
banks of, 126

Terraces in valleys of Cor-
dillera, 319

of Coquimbo, 347
of Patagonia, 171, 180
Tertiary formations of the
Pampas, 80, 126, 155

of Patagonia, 170, 332
in Chile, epochs of, 348
Teru-tero, habits of, 113
Testudo, habits of, 387, 398
Theory of lagoon islands, 478
Theristicus, 165

Thistle-beds, 123, 132, 147
Thunderstorms, 61
Tierra del Fuego, 205, 244
climate and vegetation
of, 244

zoology of, 237
entymology of, 239
Tinamus rufescens, 112
Tinochorus eschscholtzii, 93
Toad, habits of, 96

not found in oceanic
islands, 386
Torrents in Cordillera, 320
Tortoise, habits of, 387, 398
Toxodon, 126, 129, 154, 172

Andes, 330
in St Jago, 4
Transport of seeds, 397, 459
of boulders, 180, 187,
248-253
Transport of stones in roots
of trees, 466

of fragments of rock on
banks of the St Cruz river,
180
Travertin with leaves of
trees, Van Diemen's Land,
453
Tree-ferns, southern limits
of, 245,

Trees, absence of, in Pam-
pas, 45
floating,
stones, 466
silicified, vertical, 336,

357

304

transport

size of, 357, 431
time required, to rot,

Tres Montes, 284
Trichodesmium, 14
Trigonocephalus, 95
Tristan d'Acunha, 405, 461
Trochilus, 273
Tropical scenery, 500
Tschudi, M., on subsidence,
373

Tubes, siliceous, formed by
lightning, 58
Tucutuco, habits of, 49

fossil species of, 81
Tuff, craters of, 380

infusoria in, 499
Tupungato, volcano of, 329
Turco, El, 272
Turkey buzzard, 57, 185, 286
Turtle, manner of catching,
464

Type of organisation in Gala-
pagos islands, American,

forests of, 301

Valley of St Cruz, how ex
cavated, 181

dry, at Copiapo, 359
Valleys, excavation of, in
Chile, 319, 356

in Cordillera, 318
of Tahiti, 411, 416

of New South Wales,
444

Valparaiso, 254 317
Vampire bat, 21
Vapour from forests, 23
Van Diemen's Land, 450
Vanellus Cayanus, 113
Vanessa, flocks of, 158
Vanikoro, 475, 481
Vegetation of St Helena,
changes of, 494

on opposite sides of
Cordillera, 330

luxuriant, not necessary
to support largeanimals, 84
Ventana, Sierra, 106
Verbena melindres, 40
Villa Vicencio, 336

Virgularia Patagonica, 98,

201

Volcanic bombs, 498
islands, 8
phenomena, 314
Volcanoes near Chiloe, 277,
294, 314

their presence deter-
mined by elevation or
subsidence, 486

Vultur aura, 57, 185, 286

WADERS, first colonists of
distant islands, 385
Waimate, New Zealand, 425
Walckenaer, on spiders, 37
Walleechu tree, 67
Wasps preying on spiders
and killed by, 34
Water-hog, 48
Water, sold at Iquique, 367
fresh, floating on salt, 39
Waterhouse, Mr, on Rodents,
48, 382

on the niata ox, 145
on the insects of Tierra
del Fuego, 239

of Galapagos, 385, 396
Waves caused by fall of ice,
226, 247

from earthquakes, 309,
312
Weather, connection with
earthquakes, 355
Weather-board, N.S. Wales,

86

Wellington, Mount, 259

Wells, ebbing and flowing,
463

at Iquique, 368

West Indies, banks of, 444

coral reefs of, 478, 486
zoology of, 131
Whales, oil from, 17
--leaping out of water,
225

White, Mr, on spiders, 34
Wigwams of Fuegians, 213

disorders, 439
Winds, dry, in Tierra del
Fuego, 232

at the Cape Verds, 3
cold, on Cordillera, 364
on Cordillera, 327
Winter's bark, 237, 283
Wolf at the Falklands, 194,
Wood, Capt., on the agouti,
69
Woollya, 229

YAQUIL, 267

York Minster, 208