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Show 310 DESCRIPTION OF TilE PLATES AND MAP. In regard to other parts of the world, we have no reason for inferring, from any data hitherto obtained, that during an equal lapse of the ages which immediately preceded our times, an equal amount of alteration of surface may not have taken place. LIST OF WOOD-CUTS. I. Eggs of fresh-water Molluscs, p. 1ll. 2. Seed-vessel of Chara hispida, p. 273. 3. Stem and branches of ditto, p. 274. 4. Chain of coral islets, called the Maldivas, p. 286. 5. View of Whitsunday Island, p. 289. 6. Section of a coral island, p. 290. 7. Ditto of part of a coral island, p. 290. 8. Elizabeth, or Henderson's Island, p. ~97. 9. Enlarged view of part of ditto, p. 297. INDEX. VoL. II, AcQUIRED habits of animals rarely transmissible, page 48. Adige, its delta increased by the system of embankment, 203. JElian, on the breeding of elephants in captivity, 46. Africa, devastations caused by locusts in, 137. -- many species probably annihilated by the advance of the sands of, 16(). -- dried carcasses of camels imbedded in the deserts of, 235. -- stmta now forming o:II the coast of, 282. African desert, its area as compared to the Mediterranean, 166. Airthrey, a fossil whale found at, 270. Algoo, great depths at which some species live, 72. -- may leave traces of their form in calcareous mud, 278. Alloa, whale cast ashore at, 278. -- fossil whale found near, 279. Alluvium, stalagmite found alternating with in French caves, 222. -- imbedding of organic remains in, 228. Alps, have been greatly raised during the tertiary epoch, 308. Alternations of marine and fresh-water strata, how formed, 277. America, specific distinct.ness of the ani. mals in, and those of the Old World, 66,87. -- domesticated animals have run wild in, 28, 153. -- rapid multiplication of domestic quadrupeds in, 152. -- number of plants common to the Old World, and, 69. -- number of square miles of useful soil in, 155. Andes, may have undergone g•·eat changes of level in the last 6000 years, 2()5. -- effects which it is said would result from their sudden elevation, 27!.1 Animal kingdom, theory of the uninterrupted succession in the, 2. Animal origin of limestone theory considered, 298. Animal remains in caves and fissures 210. Animals, Lamarck's theory of the production of new organs in, 7. -- imported into America have run wild, 28. -- aptitude of some kinds to domestication, 38. -- hereditary imtincts of, 30. -- domestic qualities soon developed in some, 47. -- some of their qualities given with a view to their connexion with man, 41, 44, 47. -- theiJ.· acquired habits rarely transmissible, 48. -- changes in the brain of the fretus in vertebrated, 62. -- their agency in diffusing plants, 78. -- their geographical distribution, 87, -- different regions of indigenous, 88. -- in islands, 90. -- their powers of swimming, 92. -- migrations of, 94. -- their power of crossing the sea very limited, 06. -- causes which determine the stations of, 130, 140. -- influence of society in altering the distribution of, 149. -- migratory powers indispensable to, 150. -- manner in which they become preserved in peat, 216. -- remains of those most common in peat mosses, 218. -- most abundantly preserved where earthquakes prevail, 230. -- imbedded by floods in Scotland, 230. -- imbedded by river inundations, 247. -- found imbedded in Scotch marl lakes, 251. Animate creation, changes now in progress in the, 1 . Antagonist powers, synchronism of their action, 196. Antiseptic property of peat, whence derived, 216. Ants, their ravages in Grenada, 137. |