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- Quoy and Gaimard on stinging corals, 464
- on coral-reefs, 476
- Rabbit, wild, at the Falkland Islands, 193
- Rain at Coquimbo, 338, 347, 348
- at Rio, 29
- and earthquakes, 351
- in Peru, 364, 365
- in Chile, formerly more abundant, 357
- , effects on vegetation, 338
- Rana Mascariensis, 382
- Rat, only aboriginal animal of New Zealand, 427
- Rats at Galapagos, 378
- at Ascension, 492
- at Keeling Island, 456
- Rattle-snake, species with allied habit, 97
- Red snow, 322
- Reduvius, 330
- Reef at Pernambuco of sandstone, 498
Reefs of coral, 465 to 482
- , Barrier, 469, 476
- , Fringing, 472
Reeks, Mr., analysis of salt, 66
- bones, 155
- salt and shells, 370
- Remains, human elevated, 370
- Remedies of the Gauchos, 128
- Rengger on the horse, 233
- Reptiles absent in Tierra del Fuego, 237
- at Galapagos, 381
- Respiration difficult in Andes, 322
- Retrospect, 50
- Revolutions at Buenos Ayres, 140
- Rhinoceroses live in desert countries, 86
- , frozen, 89, 250
- Rhynchops nigra, 137
- Richardson, Dr., on mice of North America, 378
- , on polished rocks, 251
- , on frozen soil, 88, 248
- , on eating fat, 117
- Richardson, Dr., on geographical distribution, 131
- Rimsky atoll, 466
- Rio de Janeiro, 19
- Plata, 39
- Negro, 63, 149
- Colorado, 70
- S. Cruz, 177
- Sauce, 106
- Salado, 118
- Rivers, power of, in wearing channels, 180, 320
- River-bed, arched, 358
- River-courses dry in America, 107
- Rocks burnished with ferruginous matter, 12
- Rodents, number of in America, 49, 179
- , fossil species of, 82
- Rosas, General, 71, 103, 140
- Ruins of Callao, 369
- of Indian buildings in Cordillera, 356, 368
- S. Cruz, 177
- Salado, Rio, 118
- Salinas at the Galapagos Archipelago, 377
- in Patagonia, 65, 170
- Saline efflorescences, 78
- Salt with vegetable food, 110
- , superficial crust of, 364
- , with elevated shells, 369
- Salt-lakes, 65, 170, 377
- Sandwich Archipelago, no frogs at, 382
- Land, 248
- San Pedro, forests of, 281
- Sand-dunes, 75
- Sand, hot from sun's rays, at Galapagos Archipelago, 377
- , noise from friction of, 361
- Sandstone of New South Wales, 437
- , reef of, 498
- Santa Cruz, river of, 177
- Santiago, Chile, 262
- Sarmiento, Mount, 233, 241
- Sauce, Rio, 106
- Saurophagus sulphureus, 54
- Scarus eating corals, 464
- Scelidotherium, 82
- Scenery of Andes, 318
- Scissor-tail, 138
- Scissor-beak, habits of, 137
