INDEX 



1707 



Rock, beds of, 450-52 



definition of, 440 

 Rocks, 440-50 



absorption of moisture by, 590-92 



erratic, 496-97 

 Rodentia, 1519, 1536, 1550 

 Rooks, 1572 

 Roots, 861-63 

 Ross, Sir James, 688 

 Rosse, Lord, 154, 161, 166, 276 

 Rousseau, J. J., 1694 

 Roxburgh's region, 940 

 Ruiz and Pavon's region, 941 

 Ruminantia, 1531-36 

 Ruskin, 1019 

 Rust, 1200 

 Rye, 944 



SAGITTA, 77 



Sahara, the, 654-59 



Sahel, the, 655-56 



Saint-Hilaire, Auguste de, 921, 922-23, 



925 



Saint-Hilaire's region, 941 

 Saint Lawrence, the, 624 

 Saint Pierre, B. de, 1182 

 Saint Vincent, Bory de, 1688 

 Salamander, 1383 

 Salisburia, 876 

 Salmon, 1545 

 Salmonidae, 483 

 Samoiedes, 1672, 1674 

 San Francisco, the, 625 

 Sargasso Sea, the, 1263-67 

 Satellites, 30, 411-15, 420-26, 429-30, 

 432 



Jupiter's, 411-1 5 

 Saturn, 312, 313, 317, 326, 331, 415-26 



diameter of, 415 



and Jupiter, 416, 417 



moons of, 420-26 



orbit of, 415 



rings of, 417-20 



rotation of, 415 



seasons of, 415 



spectrum of, 416 

 Saurians, 1390-94 

 Savages, 1657-66, 1673 

 Savannas, 646 

 Savary, 201 

 Savigny, 1422 

 Scales, of fishes, 1338-40 



of insects, 1431-34 

 Schiaparelli, 356-57, 388, 394 

 Schickard, 119 

 Schiller, Jules, 105 

 Schmidt, 818 

 Schopf, 712-13 

 Schwabe, Herr, 324, 326-27 

 Scoresby, 807 

 Scott, Walter, 763, 1022 

 Sculptor's Workshop, the, 78 



Sea, color of the, 709-13 



depths of the, 680-89 



distribution of the, 677-79 



fauna of deep, 1304 - 



flora of the, 1233-37 



magnitude of the, 707 



phosphorescence of the, 750-63 



shore, the, 763-72, 1232-33 



temperature of the deep, 739-40 



water, organic life in, 1261 



wonders of the, 1357-74 

 Sea-dust, 831-32 



-horses, 1346-50 



-pens, 754-55 



-slugs, 1369-70 



-urchins, 459, 1361-62 

 Sea of Aral, 582 

 Seals, 582 

 Seaweed, Irish moss, 1257 



Sargassum, 1263-68 

 Seaweeds, 454, 1230, 1237-62 



colors of, 1262 



dulse, 1250 



food of, 1261-62 



fucus, 1239 



laver, 1251 



organs of, 1262 



parasitic, 1246 



spores of, 1262 



Ulvae, 1240 



wracks, 1239 

 Seed, ejection of, 1007-16, 1199-1200, 



1212 



Seeds, 1002-16, 1104-5 

 Seiches, 574 

 Selenography, 376 

 Selvas, 647 

 Seneca, 284 



Sensitive-plants, 1039, 1040 

 Sepals, 867-68 

 Septentriones, 82 

 Sequoia, 876-84 

 Serpent, the, 78 



Serpents, 488, 1383-90, ISS', '557 

 Sertularia, 133 

 Sexual selection, 1491 

 Shagreen, 1339 

 Shakespeare, 1204 

 Shark, 1538, 1544 

 Shield of Sobieski, 78, 96 

 Shooting-fishes, 1351 

 Shooting-stars, 132 

 Sidereal universe, 30 

 Sidereus Nuncius, 377 

 Sigillaria, 464, 470, 476, 1230 

 Sigillariae, 470 

 Silkworm, 1545 

 Silurian beach, 456-63 

 Silurian period, 461-63 



fauna of the, 481 

 Simoon, 830 

 Sirius, 54, 56, 57, 63, 66, 75. 96, 97 



125, 187, 193, 203, 308 

 Sirocco, 830-31 



