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style=margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em * Infusoria in white paint, 221
 * in coral mud, 465
 * at Ascension, 494
 * Insects, first colonists of St. Paul's rocks, 10
 * blown out to sea, 159
 * of Patagonia, 170, 327
 * of Tierra del Fuego, 238
 * of Galapagos, 381, 392, 394
 * of Keeling Island, 456
 * of St. Helena, 490
 * Instincts of birds, 95, 398
 * Iodine with salt at Iquique, 365
 * Iquique, 362
 * Iron, oxide of on rocks, 12
 * Islands, oceanic, volcanic, 8
 * , floating, 265
 * , Antarctic, 248
 * , low, 402, 467


 * Kater's peak, 212
 * Kauri pine, 427
 * Keeling Island, 452
 * , subsidence of, 475
 * , birds of, 456
 * , entomology of, 456
 * , flora of, 454
 * Kelp, or sea-weed, 239
 * Kendall, Lieut., on a frozen body, 249
 * Kingfishers, 2, 138
 * King George's Sound, 449


 * Labourers, condition of, in Chile, 267
 * Lagoon-islands, 402, 453, 465
 * Lagostomus, 124
 * Lake, brackish, near Rio, 21
 * with floating islands, 265
 * formed during earthquake, 371
 * Lamarck on acquired blindness, 52
 * Lampyris, 30
 * Lancaster, Capt., on a sea-tree, 100
 * Land-shells, 347, 488, 490
 * Lazo, 44, 153, 189
 * Leaves, fall of, 235
 * , fossil, 448
 * Leeks in New Zealand, imported, 428
 * Lepus Magellanicus, 193
 * Lesson, M., on the scissor-beak, 138
 * , on rabbit of the Falklands, 193
 * Lichen on loose sand, 364
 * Lichtenstein on ostriches, 92
 * Lightning storms, 62
 * tubes, 59
 * Lima, 365, 368
 * , elevation of a river near, 358
 * Lime, changed by lava into crystalline rock, 6
 * Limnæa in brackish water, 21
 * Lion-ant, 442
 * Lizard, 97
 * , marine species of, 385
 * Lizards, transport of, 382
 * Llama or Guauaco, habits of, 166
 * Locusts, 329
 * Longevity of species in Mollusca, 83
 * Lorenzo, San, island of, 369
 * Low archipelago, 402
 * Lund, M., on antiquity of man, 358
 * Lund and Clausen on fossils of Brazil, 131, 173
 * Luxan, 329
 * Luxuriant vegetation not necessary to support large animals, 85
 * Lycosa, 35
 * Lyell, Mr., on terraces of Coquimbo, 343
 * , on longevity of Mollusca, 83
 * , on subsidence in the Pacific, 468
 * , on change in vegetation, 120
 * , on fossil horses' teeth, 130
 * , on distribution of animals, 327
 * , on frozen snow, 325
 * , on extinct mammals and ice-period, 172
 * , on flocks of butterflies, 158
 * , on stones twisted by earthquakes, 308


 * MacCulloch on infection, 435
 * Macquarie river, 442
 * Macrauchenia, 82, 173
 * Macrocystis, 239
 * Madrina, or godmother of a troop of mules, 315
 * Magdalen channel, 241
 * Magellan, Strait of 231
 * Malcolmson, Dr., on hail, 116
 * Maldiva atolls, 467, 476, 478
 * Maldonado, 39