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Show 3~0. INDEX. Imrie, :Major, on the Gibraltar breccia, 223. India, buried cities in Central, 237. Indians of North America will become exterminated, 17 5. Indus, recent alterations of level in its delta, 265, 277. Inorganic causes, their influence in changing the habitations of species, 158. Insects, the fructification of plants g1·eatly assisted by, 54. --geog1·aphical distdbution of, 112. --migrations of, 113. --certaiu types of, distinguish parti-cular countries, 114. -- diffused by the wind, 115. --disseminated by animals, birds, river-floods, &c., 116. -- power of some kinds of to cross the sea, 116. -destructive to timber, introduced by commerce, 122. --parasitic, 122. -- their numbers kept down by other insects, 133. --peculiarity of their agency in preserving an equilibrium of species, 134. --rapid propagation of some kinds of, 135. -- imbedding of the remains of, 245. --only preserved under peculiar cir· cumstances, 246. Instincts of the bee, 58. Instincts, migratory, occasional develop· ment of in animals, 93. --new ones, which have become he-reditary in some animals, 39. · -- modified by domestication, 44. Ipsambul, buried temple of, 234. Ireland, tradition of the destruction of the reptiles of, by St. Patrick, 103. --its flora but little known, 103. --area covered by peat in, 211. -- trees of great size found in the peat of, 212. -- human body found in peat in, 215. --cattle lost in great numbers in the bogs of, 217. -- testacea found living at great depths off theN. W. coast of, 282. Iron, common in all compact woods, 215. -- ore in peat, whence derived, 214. -- instruments, account of some taken up from the bottom of the sea, in· cased in conglomerate, 262. Islands, vegetation of, 70, 227. -- the migration of plants aided by, 77. -- animals found in, 90. Islands of the Pacific, animals found in, 90. -- coral, manner in which they are formed, 284. --of d1·ift wood, with trees growing on them, discovered at sea, 98. Isle of France, alternation of coral and lava seen in the, 295. Isthmus of Sleswick, action of the sea on the, 165. --effects which would result from its destruction, 165. Italian peninsula, in great part elevated since present marine species were in being, 178. Jamaica, seeds drifted to Europe from, 76. --subsidence in the harbour of Port Royal in, 161, 264. -- rain diminished in, by the felling of forests, 200. -- a town in, swept away by the sea, 233. James, M1·., on the herds of bisons in the Mississippi Valley, 93. Java, imbedding of the remains of reptiles in, 246. -- animals destroyed by river-floods in, 250. John de Mayen, drift wood on the island of, 244. Juan Fernandez, goats destroyed by dogs in, 154. Kamtschatka, migrations of rats in, 94. Kangaroo is giving way before the pro· gress of society in Australia, 150. Keith on the dispe1·sion of seeds by 1·i· vers and torrents, 76. King, Mr., on the number of cattle lost in bogs in Ireland, 217. --his account of a cannon taken up from the Downs, 262. King, Capt. P., on the coral reefs of New Holland, 285, 294. Kinnordy, Loch of, remains of insects found in marl in the, 245. Kirby, Rev. Mr., on the instincts of the bee, 58. --on the distribution of insects, 113. --on the dissemination of insects by 1·iver-floods, 116. --on the rapid propagation of some insects, 135. -- on the devastations caused by ants in Grenada, 137. Knight, 1\Ir., on the wearing out of gar-den varieties of fruit, 33. . Kolreuter, his experiments on hybrtds, between two species of tobacco, 52. INDEX. 59ll Konig, 1\J t·., on the rock in which the human skeletons from Guadaloupe are imbedded, 259. Kotzebue, Lis account of a canoe drifted 1500 miles, 119. -- on the formation of coral islands, 284. Krantz on the migrations of seals, 99. Labr·ado1·, drift timber carried to the shores of, 244. Laccadive Islands, their linear direction, 285. Lacepcde on identity of Egyptian mummies with living species, ~10. Lagoons of cm·al islands, volcanic rocks sometimes found in them, 2!)1. -- cause of the narrow opening into the, 2!)1. -- the entrances into them always on the leeward side, 293. Lake, formed by subsidence in the delta of the Indus, 1819, 2H6. --has become more salt than the sea, 267. Lakes of North Amer·ica, animals inhabiting them would be uestroyed if they were drained, 168. -- strata containing recent shells formed by the, 275. Lamantine cast ashore near Leith, 278. Lamarck, his definition of the term spe. cies, 3. --his theory of the transmutation of species, 3. -- on the origin of the cultivated wheat, 6. -- on the numerous races of dogs, 7. -- on the production of new organs in animals, 7. --on the origin of hybrid races, 10. -- his theory of progressive deV'elop-ment, 11. --his definition of Natm·e, 13. --on the conversion of the orang-outang into the human species, 14. --on identity of Egyptian mummies with living species, 30. -- answer to his objection as to the native country of wheat, 31. -- on the power of species to modify their organization, Hi9, 173. -- on the abundance of polyps in the ocean, 181. Lamouroux on the distribution of hydrophytes, 72. Lancashi1·e, eight canoes found in drain· ing a lake in, 260. --recent discovery of a bed of tertiary shells in, 306. Vo~. II, Land has increased in the northern hemisphet ·e since the commencement of the tertiary era, 307. Landslips, imbedding of organic remains in the ruins caused by, 229. -- villagea and their inhabitants burit! d by, 229. Lapland, migrations of sqninels in, 94. Latham on the great geographical range of some birds, 10 l. Latreille on the geographical distribution of insects, 112. Lauder, Sir T. D., his account of pigs swimming to g•·eat distflllC<'S, !)2. -- his account of the ntnnl,e•· of fmgs carried down to the sea by the floods in 1\I ontyshire, 246, 249. -- on the imbedding of animals by floods in Scotland, 230. Lava currents, of 181!) and 1811, of Etna, describe(}- see Frontispiece, 304. Lawrence on the causes which enable man to live in all climate:'!, 62. Leigh, his account of canoes found in draining Martin .!\Jeer, 2GO. Lemings of Scandinavia migrate in vast numbers, 94. Lesley on the former abundance of dee1· in Scotland, 149. Lesueur on the geographical distribution of fish, 105. --on the distribution of zoophytes, lll. Lewes, state of some human bones found in a tumulus near, 225. -- estuary of the Ouse recently filled up near, 275. --Levels, indusia found in the blue clay of, 245. Lichens, height at which they can grow, 75. Lignite, wood prolmbly eonverted into, more rapidly under great pressure, 261. Limestone, the theory that it is all of animal origin, considered, 2!)8. Lindley on the dispersion of cryptogamic plants, 75. Linear direction of coral islands, 286. , Limueus on the constancy of species, 3. -- on the real existence of genera in nature, 19. -- on the distribution of seeds by animals, 79. -- on the diffusion of plants by man, 83. -- on the original introduction of species, 123. Lisbon, subsidence of the quay at, 1951 2G4. y |