366 
Snakes, 274; absence of in Fiji, 132 
Snappers, 178, 201 
Snares, 241 
Snowy Alps, 326 
Snowy petrel, 229 
Society Islands, 344 
Sogi dina, 132 
Sone, 124 
Southern Alps, 228, 239, 318, 319, 322, 
831, 334 
Southern cross, 31, 48, 318 
South Island, 221, 274, 284, 285, 293, 
299, 318, 332 
South seas, 121, 220, 231, 343 
Spatula rhynchotis, 268 
Speaker of House, 222 
Spearing fish, 43 
Speight, Prof. Robert, 238, 241, 333, 336 
Sphenodon, 218, 221, 339, 352 
Spicules of sponges, 45 
Spiders, 134, 282 
Spiloglaux nove-zealandiz, 269 
Spiral designs, 184, 244 
Spondylus, 41, 75, 157 
Sponges, 42, 198, 202, 205 
Spotted shag, 232 
Spring-tails, 135 
Squilla, 71 
Stable fly, 281 
Stache, 301 
Stag beetles, 280 
Stanley Park, Vancouver, 21 
Star fish, 41, 189, 199, 206, 215 
Star-gazers, 249 
Starting, 267 
Staterooms on Niagara, 22 
State University of Iowa, 214, 238, 337, 
338 
Stead, Mr., 236, 237 
Stead, Mrs., 237 
Steamer day, 21, 100 
St. Elmo hotel, 229 
Stenopelmatide, 278 
Stephanorhynchus attelaboides, 280 
Sterna albistriata, 267 — 
Sterna caspia oliveri, 268; vergii, 128 
Stern-posts, 244 
Stewards, 337, 342 
Stewart’s Handbook of Pacific, 345 
Stewart, Hon. Wm. Downie, Minister 
Internal Affairs of New Zealand, 7, 
212, 222 204 
Stewart Island, 204, 284, 299 
Stewart, Mr. Secretary of Native Affairs, 
Fiji, 89, 152, 168 
Stewart, Prof. G. W., 6, 14 
Stichopus, 56 
Stink-bugs, 279 
Stoats, 274 
IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
Stomoxys calcitrans, 281 
Stoner, Dr. Dayton, 10, 13, 17, 23, 25, 
39, 46, 51, 53, 79, 97, 104, 105, 184, 
187, 188, 189, 204, 209, 213, 217, 220, 
221, 222, 223, 224, 254, 339, 340, 346, 
349, 353 
Stoner, Mrs. Dayton, 11, 38, 39, 47, 50, 
52, 121, 123, 124, 127, 187, 217, 221, 
224, 258, 262, 277, 337, 341, 353 
Storm at sea, 171 
Strauchon Rock, 329 
Strand vegetation, 145 
Stratford, 312 
St. Regis Hotel, 21 
Stringops habroptilis, 269 
Strix lulu, 132 
Strombus, 158 
Strongylocentrotus, 77 
Stubbs, Mr. L., 183 
Sturnus vulgaris, 267 
Sturt, Mr., 168 
Sub-Antarctic Islands of New Zealand, 
241 
Subterranean passage-ways, 
Sugar cane, 144 
Sugar-loaf Hills, 313 
Suicide of an Indian, 50 
Suicide Rock, 166, 167 
Sula serrator, 268, 279 
Sulu, 108 
Supple Jack, 287, 327 
Sunday, 101, 339, 341, 347, 349; at 
Auckland, 179; at Bau, 95; on Maku- 
luva, 45; in New Zealand, 180, 196 
Sunrise on Makuluva, 48 
Sunset at Papeete, 343 
Superstitions of Fijians, 46 
Surface ice, 330; moraine, 330 
Surf at Makuluva, 40 
Sutherland Falls, 320 
Survey Bulletins, 336 
Suva, 97, 119, 120, 142, 143, 145, 146, 
153, 155, 156, 163; Climate of, 40d: 
Harbor, 18, 33, 128 
Switzerland, 217 
Swordfish, 231 
Synapta beselii, 76 
Synthecium sp., 210 
302 
Tabu, 108, 107 
Tahiti, 111, 217, 223, 246, 340, 342, 343, 
344, 347 
Tahiti, steamship, 184, 220, 298, 337, 342, 
339, 345 
Takapuna, 300 
Tamarinds, 158 
Tamavua, 137, 141, 152; quarry, 
134; River, 134; road, 156 
Tangi, 259 
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