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Show 328 INDEX. Species, their recent origin, or antiquity, may be equally consistent with their distribution, 177. -- speculations on the appearance of new, 179. -- on the time which might be required for the extinction of one mammiferous, 182. Specific character, permanence of the, 18. Spence, Mt·., on the numher of instincts of the common bee, 58. --on the dist1·ibntion of insects, 113. -- on the rapid propagation of some insects, 135. -- on the devastation caused hy ants in Grenada, 137. Spitzbergen, bays filled with d1·ift wood in, 244. Spix, M., on the changes which man will produce in Brazil, 143. Springbok, or Cape antelope, migrates in vast herds, 95. Springs, mineral, in the Mediterranean, 287. Squirrels, mig1·ations of the common, in Lapland, 94. St. Andre destroyed by a landslip, 229. St. Andrew's, a gun barrel fouud in the sands near, with shells attached to it, 263. St. Domingo, fragments of vases, &c., found at a depth of twenty feet in, 259. St. Katherine Docks, a vessel found buried in excavating them, 260. St. Patrick, tradition of the destruction of the Irish reptiles by, 103. St. Vincent, account of the arrival of a Boa-constrictor on drift wood in the island of, I 04. Stalagmite alternating with alluvium in French caves, 222. Stations., of plants, description of, 69. -- of animals, circumstances which constitute them are changeable, 141. --of animals and plants, causes by which they are determined, 130. Staveren, isthmus burst through, 165. Storm of Fehruai·y, 1331, in the estuary of the Forth, effects of, 280. Stratton, 1\tr., his account of buried temples in Egypt, 234. Subaqueous strata, imbedding of aquatic --species in, 272. Subaqueous vegetation, 72, 78. Submarine forests, remarks on the for-mation of, 2U3. Submarine peat, found in Holland, 278. -- formed on the English coast, 273. Submersion of land hy earthquakes, effects of the, 264. Subsidence, effects which 'voultl result from, in some places, 162. -- of Port Royal in Jamaica, 264, 2G9. -- of the quay at Lisbon, 264. --of part of the promontory of Cal-lao, 265. --in the uelta of the Indus, 266. --in Sumhawa, 2G9. --of the North American lakes, 27:1. --greater than elevation in the Pa-cific, 296. --and elevation, effects of alternate, 307. Subtel"J'anean action, our knowledge of it yet in its infancy, l!J:J. SumiJawa, subsidence in, 269. Superior, lake, strata containing recent shells formed by, 275. Sweden, shells of recent species found at great h eights in, 30G. Switzel'land, towns destroyed by landslips in, 229. Tannin, its occurrence in peat, 216. Temples in :Egypt uuried uuder hlown sand, 234. Teredo navalis, introduced into Ho1land on the hottoms of ships, 122. Terra del Spirito Santo, the island of, an habitual volcanic vent, 291. 'l.'errestrial species, imbedding· of the remains of in subaqueous deposits, 239. Tertiary strata, changes which have taken place in physical geography since their deposition-sec Map, 304. Testacca, their geographical distribution, 107. -- causes which limit the extension of many species, 108. -- great range of some species of, 1 03. -- some kinds capable of existing without ai1· or noul'ishment for long periods, 100. -- their powers of diffusion-see Diafl1' am, No. l, Ill. -- but few species of in frcsh-watct· formations, 277. -- burrowing, secured from the ordinary action of the waves and cunents, 280. --marine, depths at which they have been found living, 281. --parasitic, 237. Thames, a vessel found hmied in the alluvial plain of the, 260. Thunder-storm in Spain, de~·astation cnused by a, 199. Tide, channels into the lagoons of cor&l islands kept open by the, 291. INDEX, 329 Tides and currents, drifting of the remains of animals by, 252. Tieddemann on the changes in the brain in the footus of vertebrated animals, 62. Timber destroyed by insects introduced by commerce, 122. Tjetandoy, river, effects of a recent flood of the, in Java, 250. Tobacco, hybrids between two species of, 52. Toomer, 1\Ir., a pig trained to hunt by,42. Torrents in Catalonia, devastation caused by, 199. Tory island, testacea found living at great depths off, 282. 'fournal, l\I., human teeth and fragments of pottery found in a cave by, 224. Towns destroyed by landslips, 229. Trave1·tin formed in Forfarshire lakes, 273. -- charm found fossil in, in Scotland, 273. -- cypris found fossilized in, 275. Trimmer, Mr., his discovery of tertiary strata in Wales, 306. Tropics, recent fresh-water formations of the, not yet examined, 275. Turtles migrate in droves, 104. -- sometimes taken on the English coast, 104. Turton on the drifting of wolves out to sea on ice, 97. -- his account of a turtle taken in the Severn, l 04. Ullah Bund elevated in 1819 in the delta of the Indus, 266. -- section which it exhibited when cut through by the river, 267. Ulloa on the multiplication of the ass in Quito, 153. -- on the destruction of goats in Juan Fernandez, by dogs, 154. Universal formations, remarks on, 196. Universal ocean, theory of, disproved, 124. Val d' Arno, effect of the destruction of forests in the upper, 198. Valley del Bove, description of the- (see Frontispiece,) 303. -- dikes numerous in the, 303. -- dip of the volcanic beds in the, 303. Valparaiso, recent alterations of level caused by earthquakes at, 265. Variability, cause of, in the same spe· cies, 24. Variation in plants produced by horticulture, extent of, 33. VoL. II. Vegetable soil, why it does not increase on the surface, 188. -- formed in part by absot·ption from the atmosphere, 189. Vegetation, centres of, discordance of the opinions of botanists concerning, 177. -- no counterpoise to the leveJJing power of water, 190. --force which it exerts compared to the action of frost, 193. --its conservative influence, 198. --its influence on climate, 200. Vermont, timber imbedded by the bursting of a lake in, 228. Vernon, Mr., on organic remains found at North-Cliff, Yorkshire, 226. Vessel, effects of the foundering of one off the mouth of Poole Harbour, 259. --account of one overturned by the bore or tidal wave, in Nova Scotia, 260. Vessels, several found buried in recent formations, 260. -- manne1· in which they may become preserved in subaqueous strata, 261. Vesuvius, people destroyed by volcanic alluvions on, 236. Vicissitudes in the distribution of land and sea since the commencement of the tertiary era, 305. Vicramaditya, Rajah, cities in Central India overwhelmed in the time of the, 237. Vidal, Captain, testacea found living at great depths by, 282. Villages and their inhabitants buried by landslips, 229. Ville Deux, breccia with land shells now forming at, 220. Virginia, account of the destruction of Elk island by a river flood in, 250. Vitality, effects produced on the earth's surface by the powers of, 185. -- these most extensive in subaqueous regions, 186. - Volcanic beds of Etna, their general dip, 304. -- cones, their perfect state no proof of their 1·elative age, 19!). -- formations, imbedding of organic and other remains in, 236. --islands of the Pacific, 288. Von Buch, hia discovery of deposits of recent shells in Norway, 306. Vultures, some species true cosmopolites, 101. Walker, Dr., on the overturning of forests by wind, 212. z |
