OCR Text |
Show 31~ INDEX. Apennines, have been a vegetable r,entre whence species diffused themselves, 178. --in great part elevated during the tertiary epoch, 308. Aphides, White's account of a shower of, 114. --their rapid multiplication, 136. --ravages caused by, l3G. Aphonin, on the diffusion of man over the globe, 117. Apure, river, wild horses drowned in great numbers by the annual floods of the, 249. Aquatic and terrestrial species, their reciprocal influence, 138. Aquatic species, imbedding of their remains in subaqueous strata, 272. Aqueous lavas in Campania, seven persons destroyed by, 236. Arabian Gulf, rapidly filling with coral, 285. Arctic region, on alterations of level in the, 309. Ass, the, bas run wild in Quito, 153. -- wild, account of their migrations in Tartary, 95. Astrea, genus, instrumental in the formation of coral, 284. Athabasca Lake, large shoal formed by drift-wood in. 242. Atlantic, absence of circular coral groups in the, 291. Aubenas, fissures filled with breccia near, 220. Augustin, St., on a plague caused by locusts in Africa, 137. Australia, the kangaroo and emu giving way in, 150. -- vegetation of, 178. --extent of coral reefs off the coast of, 285. Auvergne, tertiary deposits of, 304. Baboon of Sumatra, trained to ascend trees, 47. Bacon, Lord, on the vicissitudes of things, 271. Baffin's Bay, marine animals found at great depths in, 181. Bakewell, Mr., on the formation of soils, 188. --his account of the fall of Mount Grenier, 229. Bakie loch, charoo found in a fossil state in, 274. Ballard, M., on changes which some human bones have undergone, in fourteen or fifteen centuries, 225. Banks formed by drift sea-weed, 277. Barbadoes, rain diminished by the felling of forests iu1 200. Barriers to the distribution of species, remarks on, 172. Barrow, Mr., his account of a bank formed in the sea by the bodies of locusts, 138. Barton, Mr., on the agency of insects in the fructification of plants, 54. --on the geography of plants, 67. Baumhauer, Mr., his account of a vio-lent 1·iver-flood in Java, 250. Bears, once numerous in Wales, 149. --black, migrate in great numbers, 94. Beaver, once an inhabitant of Scotland and Wales, 149. -- remains of the, found in shellmarl, in Perthshire, 251. Bee, number of instincts of the, 58. Beecbey, Captain, on the drifting of canoes in the Pacific, 120. --on th_e buried temple of Ipsambul, 234. -- on t~e rate of the growth of coral in the Pacific, 287. --on the situation of the channels into the lagoons of coral islands, 293. -- on the superior height of the windward side of coral islands, 293. -- his description of Elizabeth or Henderson's Island, 297. -- on recent changes of level in the Pacific, 298. Belcher, Captain, on the strata now forming in the sea off the coast of Africa, 282. Belzoni, on the buried temple of I psambul, 234. --his account of a flood on the Nile, 253. Berkely, on the 1·ecent origin of man, 270. Bewick, on the great geographical range of some birds, 101. -- on the distribution of the bustard in Englanc;l, 150. Bhooi, volcanic eruption at, during Cutch earthquake, 238. Bigsby, Dr., on the North American lakes, 275. Birds, diffusion of plants by, 80. --geographical distribution of, 100. --some species very local, 100. --their powers of diffusion, 101. -- periodical migrations of, 101. --great 1·ange of some species, 101. --rate of the flight of, 102. -- frequently overtaken by hurri-canes, 102. -- their agency in the distribution of fish, lOG. -- many species of, unremittingly persecuted, 149. INDEX. 513 Birds, recent extermination of some species of, 150. -- bones of in Gibraltar breccia, 223. -- rarity of their remains iu new strata, 246. Bisons, immense herds of, in the Mississippi valley, 93. l3ize, human remains found mixed with extinct mammalia in a cave at, 224. Black cattle, their rapid multiplication in South America, 152. Black Sea, marine tertiary strata found near the, 307. Blavier, 1\I., on the peat at the mouth of the Loire, 211. Bloomfield, bursting of a peat moss near, 218. Blown sand, imbedding of organic remains, &c. in, 234. Boa constrictor, account of one conveyed to St. Vincent's on drift-wood, 104. Boates, Dr., on Irish peat-bogs, 211. Boblaye, l\:1., on the formation termed ceramiquo, in the Morea, 233. Bog iron ore, whence derived, 214. Bonaparte, C., on the birds common to Rome and Philadelphia, 101. Bonelli, Professor, on the migrations of the painted lady butterfly, 113. Bonpland, on the plants common to the old and new world, 69. Bordeaux, timber destroyed by a beetle introduced by commerce at, 122. Borneo, the orang-outang taught to ascend trees bytheinhabitantsof~ 47. Boston, a narwal found buried in mud on the beach near, 278. Botanical geography, 67. Botanical provinces, their number, 71. -- how caused, 125. --why not more blended together, 127. Bothnia, gulf of, its extent formerly much greater, 307. Boyne, a large whale stranded at, 278. B1·and, Rev. J. F., on the birth-place of man, 117. British vessels, average number wrecked annually, 254, 257. --durable nature of many of their contents, 256, 257. British coasts, cetacea:£requently stranded on the, 278. Brittany, a village in, buried under blown sand, 235. -- marine tertiary strata of, 305. Brocchi, his remarks on the extinction of species, 128. Broderip, Mr., on the agency of Ianthina fragilis, in disseminating other species, 108. Broderip, Mr., some large bulirni restored to life after twenty months' abstinence, by, 109. Bromberg, a vessel aud two anchors dug up near, 260. Brongniart, .l\1., his discovery of recent shells at considerable heights in Sweden, 306. Brown, l\1r., on the plants common to Africa, Guiana, and Brazil, 76. -- on the vegetation of New Holland, 178. Buckland, Dr., on animal remains in caves, 219. -- on the remains of recent quadru-peds in fissures, 220. --on stalagmite of caves, 222. -- on human remains in caves, 223. -- on the organic remains in the cave of Paviland, 223. Buffaloes destroyed in great numbers by a river flood in Java, 250. Bnffon, on the want of specific identity in the animals of the Old and New World, 66. -- on the geographical distribution of animals, 87. -- on the check which the increase of one animal offers to that of another, 154. -- his remarks on the gradual extinction of species, 176. Buildings submerged without being thrown down, examples of, 266, 269. Bura and Helice, submerged Grecian towns, 269. But·ckhardt, buried temple of Ipsambul, discovered by, 234. --his account of the carcasses of camels in the Libyan sands, 235. Bumes, Lieut. A., his account of the effects of the earthquake of Cutch, 1819, 266. Burnt island, whale cast ashore near, 278. Burrampooter, bodies of men, deer, &c., conveyed to the sea by the floods of the, 250. Burringdon, human remains found in a cave at, 223. Burrowing shells secnre from the ordinary action of the waves, 280. Bustards recently e~irpated in England, 150. Bywell, bodies washed out of the churchyard of, by floods, 254. ~ Cabbages, examples of deviation from a common type shown in different races of, 33 .. Cachalots, a herd of stranded at Kairston1 in Orkney, 278. |