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INDEX. 



Red Sea Corals, 175. 

 Reflux of tides, 35. 

 Reign of law, 61. 

 Rhizopods, 83. 

 Rhizostoma Aldrovandi, 221. 



Cuvieri, 220. 



Rock covered with young Coral Polyps, 



> 135. 



Roman indifference to life, 542. 



Rose aurelia, 225. 



Ross's (Sir James) discoveries, 44, 45, 51. 



Rotation of the earth, 36. 



Rotella Zealandica, 416. 



Rudimentary forms of life, 61. 



Rugous madrepores, 148. 



Sagartia viduata, 189. 



Salmonidae, 561. 



Salmon leaps, 565. Falls of Kilmorack, 



ib. Anecdote of Lord Lovat, 566. 

 Salpa maxima, 314. 

 Saltiness of the sea, 16. Its source, 21. 

 Salt water at the Poles, 19. At the 



Equator, ib. 

 Salt-water lakes, 16. 

 Sarcoda, 100. 

 Sargasso Sea, 31. 

 Saw-fish, 524. 

 Scallop-shell, 385. 

 Scomberoides, 596. 



Scoresby's account of the Polar seas, 56. 

 Scottish 'pearls, 341. 

 Scylla and Charybdis, 42. 

 Sea Anemone, 182. Organization, 183. 



Toxicological properties, 186. 

 Cucumber, 291. 

 Eel (Munena Helena), 542. 



Eggs, 291. 



Horse (Hippocampus), 535. 



Lampreys, 509. 



Level, 10. 



Mussels, 344. 



Nettles, 195. 



Palm, 272. 



Pen, 139-144. 



Slug, 407. 



Snail (Liparis), 544. 



Urchins, 281. 



water, its components, 15. 

 Section of a Coral branch, 132. 



of Atlantic Telegraph, 8. 



Seine Net, 588. 



Selachians, 510. 



Sepia (Cuttlefish), 449. Its suckers, ib. 



officinalis, 455. 



tuberculosa, and bone of S. offici- 

 nalis, 456. 

 Sertulariadse, 211. 

 Shad, the (Alosa), 584. 

 Shallow water, its temperature, 25. 

 Shark (Carcharius vulgaris), 517. 



Shark-fishing, 520. 



Shell of the Mollusca, 316. Is it a skele- 

 ton? 317. How built up, 318. Shell of 

 the Slrombus, 438. 



Ship-worm and its ravages, 321. Its 

 organization, 322. Reproduction, 324. 

 Its boring hood, 326. 



Siderolites calcitrapoides, 94. 



Silver in the sea, 21. 



Siphonophora, 228. 



Skeleton Echinus, 288. 



Skeleton of the Perch, 503. 



Smolt, 564. 



Snails : form and characteristics, 401. 

 Their organization, 402. Breathing, 

 ib. Circulation, ib. Sight, 403. Re- 

 production, ib. Shell, ib. Their repu- 

 tation with the Classics, 404. 



Solarium perspecticum, and S. variegatum, 

 418. 



Solar-lunar tides, 37. 



Soles (Solea vulgaris), 547. 



Sophonopnora, 198. 



Spearing Halibut, 551. 



Spey Salmon, 568. 



Spherical form of the earth, 10. 



Spiroloculina, 92. 



Spondylus, various, 387. 



Spongia, half natural size, 75. 



Spongia, 82. Their generation, ib. Or- 

 ganization, 74. Localities, ib. Varieties 

 of, 80. 



Spontaneous division of Infusoria, 104. 



generation, 105. 



Squalidse, 517. 



Star-corals (Astrea), 155. 



Star-fishes, 260. Their 

 267. Dismemberment, 

 propensities, ib. 



and Oysters, 266. 



metamorphosr?, 

 268. Suicidal 



Stentor Mulleri, 114. 

 Stinging apparatus of Physophora hydro- 

 statica, 238. 



tentacles of Physalia, 247. 



Stomach of Infusoria, 102. 



Stomia boa, 571. 



Strombus gigas, shell and animal, 437. 



Stone lilies, 276. 



Stormontfield fish-ponds, 563. 



Straits of Gibraltar, 34. 



Sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), 526. 



fishing in the Volga, 527. 



Sturiona, 524. 

 Stylaster flabelliformis, 154. 

 Sub-branchiata, 544. 

 Submarine currents, 33. 

 Subsidence, theory of coral islands, 178. 

 Suckers, or Star-fishes, 264. Suicidal ten- 

 dency of Star-fishes, 269. 

 Surbinolia, 148. 

 Swimming bladder, 503. 



