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- Sulphate of soda with common salt, 66, 369
- Swainson, Mr., on cuckoos, 53
- Sydney, 431
- Tabanus, 170
- Tahiti (Otaheite), 403
- , three zones of fertility, 406
- Talcahuano, 302
- Tambillos, Ruinas de, 356
- Tameness of birds, 398
- Tapacolo and Turco, 270
- Tapalguen, Sierra, flat hills of quartz, 116
- Tarn, Mount, 234
- Tasmania, 446
- Tattooing, 404, 426
- Temperance of the Tahitians, 411
- Temperature of Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands, 242
- of Galapagos, 373, 377
- Tercero, Rio, fossils in banks of, 127
- Terraces in valleys of Cordillera, 315
- of Coquimbo, 343
- of Patagonia, 172, 181
- Tertiary formations of the Pampas, 81, 129, 155
- of Patagonia,170, 329
- in Chile, epochs of, 344
- Teru-tero, habits of, 114
- Testudo, habits of, 382, 394
- Theory of lagoon-islands, 472
- Theristicus, 165
- Thistle beds, 119, 124, 148
- Thunder-storms, 62
- Tierra del Fuego, 204 to 251
- , climate and vegetation of, 242
- , zoology of, 236
- , entomology of, 238
- Tinamus rufescens, 113
- Tinochorus Eschscholtzii, 94
- Toad, habits of, 97
- not found in oceanic islands, 381
- Torrents in Cordillera, 316, 321
- Tortoise, habits of, 382, 394
- Toxodon, 82, 127, 130, 155
- Transparency of air in Andes, 325
- in St. Jago, 4
- Transport of seeds, 392, 454
- of boulders, 187, 247
- Transport of stones in roots of trees, 461
- of fragments of rock on banks of the St. Cruz river, 180
- Travertin with leaves of trees, Van Diemen's Land, 448
- Tree-ferns, southern limits of, 244
- , 448
- Trees, absence of, in Pampas, 46
- , floating, transport stones, 461
- silicified, vertical, 332
- , size of, 353
- , time required to rot, 301
- Tres Montes, 282
- Trichodesmium, 14
- Trigonocephalus, 96
- Tristan d'Acunha, 399, 456
- Trochilus, 271
- Tropical scenery, 405
- Tschudi, M., on subsidence, 369
- Tubes, siliceous, formed by lightning, 59
- Tucutuco, habits of, 50
- , fossil species of, 82
- Tuff, craters of, 373
- , Infusoria in, 494
- Tupungato, volcano of, 324
- Turco, El, 270
- Turkey buzzard. 58, 184, 284
- Turtle, manner of catching, 459
- Type of organization in Galapagos islands, American, 393
- Types of organization in different countries, constant, 173
- Tyranuus, 138
- Ulloa on hydrophobia, 353
- on Indian buildings, 357
- Unanùe, Dr., on hydrophobia, 353
- Uruguay, Rio, 139, 147
- , not crossed by the Bizcacha, 124
- Uspallata range and pass, 331
- Vacas, Rio, 333
- Valdivia, 297
- , forests of, 298, 301
- Valley of St. Cruz, how excavated, 181
- , dry, at Copiapó, 355
- Valleys, excavation of, in Chile, 315, 355
- of Tahiti, 408, 412
- in Cordillera, 315
