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- Mammalia, fossil, 81, 127, 130, 155, 173, 371
- Man, antiquity of, 358
- , fossil remains of, 370
- , body frozen, 249
- , fear of, an acquired instinct, 400
- , extinction of races, 435, 448
- Mares killed for their hides, 154
- Mare's flesh eaten by troops, 101
- Mastodon, 127, 130
- Matter, granular, movements in, 100
- Mauritius, 483
- Maypu river, 316
- Megalouyx, 81, 131
- Megatherium, 81, 83, 131
- Mendoza, climate of, 323
- , 330
- Mexico, elevation of, 132
- Miasmata, 365, 435
- Mice inhabit sterile places, 360
- , number of, in America, 49
- , how transported, 288, 378
- different on opposite sides of Andes, 326
- of the Galapagos, 378
- of Ascension, 492
- Millepora, 464
- Mills for grinding ores, 266
- Mimosæ, 25
- Mimus, 54, 394, 399
- Miners, condition of, 260, 265, 339, 346
- Mines, 260, 340, 346
- , how discovered, 317
- Missionaries at New Zealand, 425
- Mitchell, Sir T., on valleys of Australia, 438
- Mocking-bird, 54, 394, 399
- Molina, omits description of certain birds, 271
- Molothrus, habits of, 52
- Monkeys with prehensile tails, 28
- Monte Video, 40, 142
- Moresby, Capt., on a great crab, 463
- on coral-reefs, 479
- Mount Sarmiento, 233, 241
- Tarn, 234
- Mountains, elevation of, 312
- Movements in granular matter, 100
- Mud, chalk-like, 465
- disturbed by earthquake, 306
- Mules, 315
- Muniz, Sig., on niata cattle, 145
- Murray, Mr., on spiders, 161
- Mylodon, 81, 131, 155
- Myopotamus Coipus, 287
- Negress with goitre, 314
- Negro, Rio, 63, 149
- lieutenant, 76
- New Caledonia, reef of, 469, 471, 477
- Zealand, 417
- Niata cattle, 145
- Noises from a hill, 361
- Noses, ceremony of pressing, 423
- Nothura, 45
- Notopod, crustacean, 161
- Nulliporæ, incrustations like, 9
- protecting reefs, 498
- Octopus, habits of, 7
- Oily coating on sea, 17
- Olfersia, 10
- Opetiorhynchus, 289
- Opuntia Galapageia, 374
- Darwinii, 165
- , 261
- Orange-trees self-sown, 120
- Ores, gold, 266
- Ornithorhynchus, 441
- Ornithology of Galapagos, 378, 394
- Osorno, volcano of, 273, 275, 291
- Ostrich, habits of, 43, 89
- Ostrich's eggs, 113
- Otaheite, 403
- Otter, 287
- Ova in sea, 17
- Oven-bird, 95
- Owen, Capt., on a drought in Africa, 133
- , Professor, on the Capybara, 50
- fossil quadrupeds, 81 to 84, 1.30, 155
- nostrils of the Gallinazo, 185
- Owl of Pampas, 70, 125
- Oxyurus, 237, 289
- Oysters, gigantic, 170
- Paint, white, 221
- Pallas on Siberia, 67
- Palm-trees in La Plata, 46
- in Chile, 256
- , south limit of, 244
- Palms absent at Galapagos, 375
