Mount Kiematubu, 163
Mount Ophir, 130
Mount Puncak Jaya, 138
Mount Rinjani, 8
Mount Sarmiento, 74
Mountain pygmy possum, 18
Mulga, 15
Myrtaceae, 16, 141, 161, 198
Nazca Plate, 75
Natural History Museum, 28, 52, 105,
127, 194–5
Natural selection, 135, 173–4, 177–80,
192–4
Natural theology, 56, 178
New Holland, 31, 38, 40–4, 51, 200
New South Wales, 10, 17–18, 43, 51,
83–4
New Zealand, 30, 46, 97
Niger, HMS, 22
Nutmeg, 129, 140–41, 147–49, 160, 197
Ombak Putih, 197
On the Origin of Species, 10, 70, 96, 105,
124, 134–5, 163–4, 177–83, 189, 192–5
Orangutan, 8, 132–3, 135–7
Ostrich, 19, 71, 88
Owen, Richard, 93, 180, 195
Oxford University, 22, 45, 180
Pacific Plate, 9, 138
Paley, William, 56
Palm Trees of the Amazon and their Uses,
126
Pangea, 12
Papua New Guinea, 9, 141
Papua, 166–7, 170, 175–6, 185
Parkinson, Sydney, 22, 26, 28–9, 37, 40,
45, 50, 53
Patagonia, 53, 60, 65, 71–2, 82
Patinti Strait, 163, 198
Permian-Carboniferous, 12, 13
Phillip, Governor Arthur, 83
Plate tectonics, 158
Platypus, 17–18, 87
Point Venus, 28
Port Famine, 60
Possession Island, 43
Proteaceae, 16
Providential Channel, 42
Punta Alta, 69
Pygmy possum, 15, 18
Rajah Brooke’s birdwing, 131
Red Bird of Paradise 170–1
Resolution, HMS, 46, 49
Revesby, 21
Rhea, 71, 88
Rice, Alexander, 114
Rio Negro, 69, 71, 109–16, 126–7, 149
Rio Vuapés, 115–16
Riversleigh, 19
Royal Geographic Society, 95, 127, 129
Royal Geological Society, 95, 181
Royal Society, 23–5, 28, 51, 95, 97, 103,
180–1, 188
Rumphius, Georg, 161San Salvador, 68–9
Sandwalk Wood, 173–5, 187
Santarem, 109
Santiago, 75
Sarawak, 128–35, 146
Sarawak Law, 134, 159–60
Sedgwick, Reverend Adam, 59, 123, 179
Serrao, Francisco, 161
Singapore, 126, 129–30, 135–6, 143,
165, 183–5
Solander, Daniel, 10, 20–5, 29, 51–3
Spice Islands, 160–2, 168, 197
Spöring, Herman, 25, 45Index 205