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ST. KILDA. 

 St. Kilda, nestling petrels at, with 



exotic seeds in their crops, ii. 147, 



148. 

 St. Paul's Island, ii. 76, 94 ; visit to, 



1. 230, 236, 239. 

 Salisbury Craigs, trap-dyke in, i. 41. 

 Salter, J. W., genealogy of Spirifers, ii. 



367. 



Salt-water, ' bloom ' sometimes a pro- 

 tection from, iii. 341. 



Salvia, Hildebrand on cross-fertilisation 

 in, iii. 280 ; Dr. Ogle on the fertili- 

 sation of, iii. 278. 



Sanderson, Prof. J. Burdon, letter to, 

 on Drosera, iii. 323. 



" Sand walk," last visit to the, iii. 



^ 357- 



Sand-wasps, instincts of, iii. 244, 245. 



Sandwich Islands, Labiatce of the, ii. 

 24. 



San Salvador, letter to R. W. Darwin 

 from, i. 226. 



Saporta, Marquis de, his opinion in 

 1863, iii. 17. 



, letters to, iii. 188 ; on the pro- 

 gress of evolution in France, iii. 103 ; 

 on the origin of man, iii. 162 ; on 

 fertilisation, iii. 284. 



-, on the impulse given to the 



development of the higher plants, by 

 the development of flower-frequenting 

 insects, iii. 248. 



Saturday Review, article in the, ii. 

 311 ; article in reply to criticisms on 

 the ' Fertilisation of Orchids 'in the 

 ' Edinburgh Review,' in the, iii. 274 ; 

 reference to review of the ' Origin ' in 

 the, ii. 260 ; review of the ' Descent 

 of Man' in the, iii. 139; review of 

 the ' Fertilisation of Orchids ' in the, 

 iii. 274. 



Saturnia, iii. 159. 



Satynts and Homo, gap between, ii. 

 227. 



Savages, first sight of, i. 243, 255. 



Scalpcllum, complemental males of, iii. 



33. 

 Scalp-muscles, inheritance of the, iii. 



99. 

 Scandinavia, evidence from peat-beds 



of former changes of climate in, iii. 



249. 



SEEDS. 

 Scarlet-runner, Sir Thomas Farrer on 



the fertilisation of the, iii. 277. 

 Scelidotheriam, i. 276. 

 Scenery, love of, i. 129. 

 Scepticism, effects of, in science, i. 



104. 

 Schaaffhausen, Dr. H., his claim of 



priority, ii. 310, 319. 

 Scherzer, Dr., note to, on Socialism 



and Evolution, iii. 237. 

 Schmerling, Dr., iii. 19. 

 Schools, i. 384, 385, 387. 

 Schwendener, Professor, on the position 



of leaves, iii. 51. 

 Science, early attention to, i. 34 ; 



general interest in, i. 126, 127. 

 Scored rocks, differences of, iii. 235. 

 Scotch Firs, stunting of young, by 



cattle, ii. 99. 

 Scott, John, of the Botanic Gardens, 



Edinburgh, opinion of, iii. 300. 

 Scott, Sir Walter, i. 40. 

 Screams, heard in Brazil, iii. 200. 

 Scudder, S. H. , on a Devonian insect 



with stridulating apparatus, iii. 97. 

 Sea-sickness, i. 223, 224, 227, 229. 

 Seals, ii. 336. 

 , descended from a terrestrial 



carnivore, iii. 163. 

 on oceanic islands, iii. 20. 



Secondary sexual characters, iii. III. 



Section-cutting, i. no. 



Sedgwick, Professor Adam, introduc- 

 tion to, i. 185 ; visit to North Wales 

 with, i. 56-58 ; opinion of C. Darwin, 

 i. 66 ; in 1870, iii. 125 ; last inter- 

 view with J. S. Henslow, ii. 372 ; 

 review of the 'Vestiges,' i. 344; 

 letter from, on the ' Origin of Species,' 

 ii. 247 ; review of the ' Origin ' in 

 the Spectator, ii. 296, 297 ; attack 

 before the ' Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society,' ii. 306, 307, 308. 



, Miss S., letter from Mr. 



Chauncey Wright to, iii. 165. 



Seedlings, destruction of by slugs, &c, 

 ii. 91, 99 ; heliotropism of, iii. 334, 



^ 336, 337. 



Seeds, experiments on the germination 

 of, after immersion, ii. 54, 55, 56 ; 

 floating, ii. 56, 58 ; sinking of, in 

 sea-water, ii. 56 ; tropical, found in 



