

INDEX. 



517 



Scorpions, cannibals, 165 



Scoresby, Mr., ou effects of snow 

 on rocks, 318 



Scrope, Mr., on earthquakes, 352 



Scytalopus fusens, 237, 289 



Sea, open, inhabitants of, 162 



, 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 



Serpulae, protecting reef, 498 



Shark killed by Diodon, 14 



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



Sheep, infected, 436 



Shelley, lines on Mont Blanc, 168 



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- 

 lands, 196 



Silurus, 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 



, on perforated 



pebbles, 149 



Snake, venomous, 96 



Snow-line on Cordillera, 244, 322, 

 325 



Snow, effects of on rocks, 318 



, prismatic structure of, 325 



, red, 322 



Society, state of in La Plata, 41, 157 



Society, state of, in Australia, 443 



■ Archipelago, 402 



, volcanic phe- 

 nomena at, 475, 481 



Soda, nitrate of, 362 



, sulphate of, 7S 



Soil, frozen, 88, 248 



Spawn on surface of sea, 17 



Species, distribution of, 131, 363 



, extinction of, 1 74 



Spiders, habits of, 35—38 



, gossamer, 159 



killed by and killing wasp* 



35 to 37 



en Keeling Island, 456 



on St. Paul's, 10 



Springs, hot, 263 



Stevenson, Mr., on growth of sea- 

 weed, 239 



Stinging animals, 4G4 



St. Helena, 486 



, introduction of spiriti 



into, 412 



— Fe, 129 



— Jago, C. Verds, 1 

 , unhealthiness of, 366 



— Jago, Chile, 262 



— Maria, elevated, 307, 310 



— Paul's rocks, 8 

 Stones perforated, 149, 267 



transported in roots, 461 



Storm, 217,281 



in Cordillera, 324, 360 



Streams of stones at Falkland Islands, 



197 

 Strongylus, 32 

 Struthio Rhea, 43, 89 



Darwiuii, 92 



Strzelecki, Count, 448 



Suadiva atoll, 466 



Subsidence of coral reefs, 467 to 4S 2 



of Keeling Island, 475 



of Patagonia, 1 72 



of coast of Peru, 369 



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 



ground, 7S 



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