INDEX 



Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, quoted, 

 268. 



Salisbury, R. D. See Chamberlin, 

 Thomas C. 



Salisbury, Robert, Marquis of, 214. 



San Francisco, earthquake at, 172. 



Science, challenging belief, 175- 

 186; ties us to the earth, 179; dis- 

 counts heaven in favor of earth, 

 179; enlarges the sphere of our 

 love, 181; atrophies man's faith 

 but softens his heart, 195; cannot 

 give the ultimate explanation, 

 220; and theology, 263. 



Sea, the, mother of the rocks, 109; 

 illusion of a great blue wall, 130. 



Selection, natural. 216. 



Senses, delicacy of the, 244, 245. 



Sentinel Rock, 75. 



Seton, Ernest Thompson, 256, 258. 



Shells, and armor, 225. 



Shells, Hawaiian, 129, 130. 



Sill, 173, 174. 



Silver sword, a plant in the crater 

 of Haleakala, 141. 



Skepticism, 264. 



Skylark, in the Hawaiian Islands, 

 132, 133, 137, 138. 



Smell, the sense of, 244. 



Soil, the, history of, 14, 15; born of 

 the rocks, 86; our mother, 167; 

 its making, 167, 168; cycle of the, 

 169, 170. 



Specialization, in evolution, 229. 



Stars, collisions among, 269. 



Sugar-making, in the Hawaiian 

 Islands, 148. 



Surf-riding, 131, 132. 



Tantalus, Mt., 123, 128. 

 Tennyson, Alfred, quoted, 96; his 



"Parnassus," 206. 

 Thalessa, 251, 252, 

 Theology, and science, 263. 

 Three Brothers, 73. 



Thrush, Oahu, 127. 



Tiger, sabre-toothed, 229. 



Time. See Geologic time. 



Titanothere, 230, 237. 



Tobacco, its effect on the sense of 



smell, 244. 

 Tree-ferns, 150. 

 Tropics, nature in the, 126. 

 Tuscarora Deep, 120. 



Variation, in animals and man, 215- 



217. 

 Vernal Falls, 74. 



Waikiki, surf-riding at, 131, 132. 

 Wailuku, 134, 147, 148. 

 Walking-club, Honolulu, 125. 

 Walks, in the Hawaiian Islands, 



125-130. 

 Warbler, yellow red-poll, or yellow 



palm warbler {Dendroica palma- 



rum hypochrysea) , 254, 255; notes 



of, 255. 

 Warner, Charles Dudley, quoted, 



47. 

 Water, chemical and mechanical 



powers of, 169. 

 Waterfall, a reversed, 129. 

 Whately, Richard, 194. 

 Whitman, Walt, quoted, 79, 197, 



202, 213; and evolution, 197. 

 Whitney, Josiah Dwight, 82. 

 Woodpecker, northern pileated, or 



logcock {Phl(£otomus pileatus 



abieticola), 255, 256. 

 World, end of the, 266, 267. 

 Wren, canon {Gather pes mexicanus 



conspersus), 70. 



Yosemite, its charms, 71, 72; some 

 of its features, 73-75; contrasted 

 with the Grand Canon, 75-78; 

 oaks in, 78, 79; geology of, 79-83. 



Yosemite Falls, 75, 77, 78. 



