INDEX. 



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Scorpions, cannibals, 165 

 Scoresby, Mr., ou efifects of snow- 

 on rocks, 318 

 Scrope, Mr., on earthquakes, 352 

 Scytalopus fuscus, 237, 289 

 Sea, open, inhabitants of, 1G2 



, phosphorescence of, 162 



, distant noise of, 295 



Sea-pen, habits of, 99, 202 



Sea-weed, growth of, 239 



Seals, number of, 284 



Seeds transported by sea, 392, 454 



Ser pulse, protecting reef, 498 



Shark killed by Diodon, 14 



Shaw, Dr., on lion's flesh, 116 



Sheep, infected, 436 



Shelley, lines on INIont Blanc, 1C8 



Shells, land, in great numbers, 347 



, at St. Helena, 488 



Shells, fossil, of Cordillera, 321 



of Galapagos, 390 



elevated, 83, 130, 171, 254, 



344, 369 

 -, tropical forms of, far south. 



243 



, decomposition of, with salt, 369 



Shepherd's dogs, 1 49 

 Shingle-bed of Patagonia, 75, 171 

 Siberia compared with Patagonia, 67 

 , zoology of, related to North 



America, 132 

 Siberian animals, how preserved in 



ice, 250 

 , food necessary dur- 

 ing their existence, 89 

 Silicified trees, 333, 353 

 Silurian formations at Falkland Is- t 



lands, 196 

 Siliirus, habits of, 136 

 Skunks, 80 

 Slavery, 20, 24, 499 

 Smelling power of carrion-hawks, 



184 

 Smith, Dr. Andrew, on the support 



of large quadrupeds, 85 

 , ou perforated 



pebbles, 149 

 Snake, venomous, 96 

 Snow-line on Cordillera, 244, 322, 



325 

 Snow, effects of on rocks, 3 1 8 



, prismatic structure of, 325 



, red, 322 



Society, state of in La Plata, 41, 157 



Society, state of, in^Australia, 443 



• Archipelago, 402 



■ — — , volcanic plio- 



nomenaat, 475, 481 

 Soda, nitrate of, 362 



, sulphate of, 78 



Soil, frozen, 88, 248 

 Spawn on surface of sea, 1 7 

 Species, distribution of, 131, 3Co 



■ , extinction of, 1 7 x 



Spiders, habits of, 35—38 



, gossamer, 159 



killed by and killing wa^ps 



35 to 37 



on Keeling Island, 456 



on St. Paul's, 10 



Springs, hot, 263 



Stevenson, Mr., on growth of sei> 



weed, 239 

 Stinging animals, 464 

 St. Helena, 486 

 , introduction of spirits 



into, 412 



— Fe; 129 



— Jago, C. Verds, 1 



, unheal thiness of, SGC 



— Jago, Chile, 262 



— Maria, elevated, 307, 310 



— Paul's rocks, 8 

 Stones perforated, 149, 267 



transported in roots, 451 



Storm, 217,281 



in Cordillera, 324, 360 



Streams of stones at Falkland Islands, 



197 

 Strongylus, 32 

 Strutiiio Ehea. 43, 89 



Darwiuii, 92 



Strzelecki, Count, 448 



Suadiva atoll, 466 



Subsidence of coral reefs, 467 to 48J 



of Keeling Island, 475 



of Patagonia, 1 72 



of coast of Peru, 3G9 



of Cordillera, 321, 333 



of Coasts of Chile, 344 



of Vanikoro, 475 



of coral reefs great in 



amount, 479 

 , cause of distinctness in 



Tertiary epochs, 344 

 Sulphate of lime, 66, 171, 369 

 soda incrusting tlie 



ground, 78 



