| OCR Text |
Show INDEX. A. Acacia, 179 Acacia hete1·ophylla, 413 Acacia 1coa, 413 Acrena in California, 495 Achatinellinre, average range of, 304 Accipite1· hawaii, 301 .lEgialitis sanctce- helence, 294 :Africa, characteristic mammalia or, 388 former isolation of, 390 Africa and Madagascar, relations of, S!JO early history of, 3!ll African highlands as aiding the migration of plants, 492 African reptiles absent from Madagascar, 389 Aggressive power of the Scandinavian flora, 479 Air and water, properties of in relation to climate, 127 Alectm·cenas pulchen·intus, 402 Allen, Mr. J. A., on variation, 57 Allied species occupy separate areas, 44!) Alpine plants. their advantages as colo-nisers, 472 Alternations of climate in Switzerland and North America, 117 Alternations of climate, palooontological evidence of, 115 Antbly1·hynchus c1·istatus, 269 Amazon, limitation of species by, 17, 18 American genera of reptiles in Madagascar, 889 Amphibia, dispersal of, 73 Amphibia of the Seychelles, 402, 403 introduced, of Mauritius, 409 of New Zealand, 454 Amphioxus, 62 Amyd1-us T1·istramii, restricted range of, 15 Anas W11villiana, 301 Ancient continental islands, 238, 883 Ancient glacial epochs, 168 what evidence of may be expected, 169 Ancient groups in Madagascar, 392 Andersson, N.J., on the flora of the Galapa-gos, 277 Andes, migration of plants along the, 488 Andromeda, 179 Angrcecunt sesquipedale, 411 Animal life, effects of glacial epoch on, 118 Animal lifo of Formosa, 878 A no a dep1•essicornis, 427 Antarctic continent as a means of plantdispersion, 489 Antarctic islands with perpetual snow, 181 Antelopes, overlapping genera of, 28 Antiquity of Hawaiian fauna and flora, 81)9 of land-shells, 76 of New Zealand, 494 of plants as affecting their dis-persal, 80 A1Jera anmd·iuacea, 471 Apium graveolens in New Zealand, 483 Apteryx, species of, 447 A1·abia hi1·suta on railway arch, 482 Archaic forms still existing, 221 Arctic and Antarctic regions, contrasts of, 132 Arctic c11rrent, effects of a stoppage of, 145 Arctic plants in the southern hemisphere, 477 Arctic regions, mild climates of, 175 recent interglacial mild period in, 175 Arctic warm climates of Secondary and Palreozoic times, 195 Areas of distribution, 13 separate and overlapping, 17 Aecension, former climate and productions of, 292 Astronomical and geographical causes, comparative effects of, on climate, 200 Astronomical causes of change of climate, 122 of glaciation, 136 Atlantic isles, peculiar mosses of, 348 Atlantosaurus, the largest land-animal, 96 At1·iplex patula on a railway bank, 488 Auchenia, 26 Austen, Mr. Godwin, on littoral shells in deep water, 317 Australia, two sets of Northern plants in, 491 South European plants in, 491 Australia and South Africa, supposed connection of, 493 Australian birds absent from New Zealand, 458 Australian flora, general features of, 461 richest in temperate zone, 461 recent and derivative in the tropics, 462 its south-eastern and south- western divisions, 463 Sir Joseph Hooker on, 463 geological explanation of, 464 its presence in New Zealand, 467 natural orders of wanting in New Zea-land, 460 Australian orchidere in China, 495 L L 2 |
