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style=margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em * Mammalia, fossil, 81, 127, 130, 155, 173, 371
 * Man, antiquity of, 358
 * , fossil remains of, 370
 * , body frozen, 249
 * , fear of, an acquired instinct, 400
 * , extinction of races, 435, 448
 * Mares killed for their hides, 154
 * Mare's flesh eaten by troops, 101
 * Mastodon, 127, 130
 * Matter, granular, movements in, 100
 * Mauritius, 483
 * Maypu river, 316
 * Megalouyx, 81, 131
 * Megatherium, 81, 83, 131
 * Mendoza, climate of, 323
 * , 330
 * Mexico, elevation of, 132
 * Miasmata, 365, 435
 * Mice inhabit sterile places, 360
 * , number of, in America, 49
 * , how transported, 288, 378
 * different on opposite sides of Andes, 326
 * of the Galapagos, 378
 * of Ascension, 492
 * Millepora, 464
 * Mills for grinding ores, 266
 * Mimosæ, 25
 * Mimus, 54, 394, 399
 * Miners, condition of, 260, 265, 339, 346
 * Mines, 260, 340, 346
 * , how discovered, 317
 * Missionaries at New Zealand, 425
 * Mitchell, Sir T., on valleys of Australia, 438
 * Mocking-bird, 54, 394, 399
 * Molina, omits description of certain birds, 271
 * Molothrus, habits of, 52
 * Monkeys with prehensile tails, 28
 * Monte Video, 40, 142
 * Moresby, Capt., on a great crab, 463
 * on coral-reefs, 479
 * Mount Sarmiento, 233, 241
 * Tarn, 234
 * Mountains, elevation of, 312
 * Movements in granular matter, 100
 * Mud, chalk-like, 465
 * disturbed by earthquake, 306
 * Mules, 315
 * Muniz, Sig., on niata cattle, 145
 * Murray, Mr., on spiders, 161
 * Mylodon, 81, 131, 155
 * Myopotamus Coipus, 287


 * Negress with goitre, 314
 * Negro, Rio, 63, 149
 * lieutenant, 76
 * New Caledonia, reef of, 469, 471, 477
 * Zealand, 417
 * Niata cattle, 145
 * Noises from a hill, 361
 * Noses, ceremony of pressing, 423
 * Nothura, 45
 * Notopod, crustacean, 161
 * Nulliporæ, incrustations like, 9
 * protecting reefs, 498


 * Octopus, habits of, 7
 * Oily coating on sea, 17
 * Olfersia, 10
 * Opetiorhynchus, 289
 * Opuntia Galapageia, 374
 * Darwinii, 165
 * , 261
 * Orange-trees self-sown, 120
 * Ores, gold, 266
 * Ornithorhynchus, 441
 * Ornithology of Galapagos, 378, 394
 * Osorno, volcano of, 273, 275, 291
 * Ostrich, habits of, 43, 89
 * Ostrich's eggs, 113
 * Otaheite, 403
 * Otter, 287
 * Ova in sea, 17
 * Oven-bird, 95
 * Owen, Capt., on a drought in Africa, 133
 * , Professor, on the Capybara, 50
 * fossil quadrupeds, 81 to 84, 1.30, 155
 * nostrils of the Gallinazo, 185
 * Owl of Pampas, 70, 125
 * Oxyurus, 237, 289
 * Oysters, gigantic, 170


 * Paint, white, 221
 * Pallas on Siberia, 67
 * Palm-trees in La Plata, 46
 * in Chile, 256
 * , south limit of, 244
 * Palms absent at Galapagos, 375