386 



INDEX. 



Salmonia, or Days of Fly Fishing, Sir 

 Humphrey Davy's, 102 



Salter, Dr. Hyde, 262 



, Tom, Gosse's cousin, 11, 75 



Saturday Review on Gosse's death, 337 



Saunders, W. W., letter to, 209, 210 



Savannah-le-Mar, Jamaica, 184, 185, 188, 

 189 



Saw-whetter, Sound of the, in 



Scarron's Roman Comique, 26 



School Seventy Years ago, A Country Day, 

 17 



Scorpion on ship in North Atlantic, 77 ; 

 and off Kingston, 202 



Scott, J. , of Edinburgh, 299 



, Sir Walter, works of, 55 



Sculpen (Cottus), 114 



Sea and Land, 242 



Sea-anemones {Actinia), 241 ; rosea and 

 nivea, 239, 253 ; bunodes coronata, 289 ; 

 Sagartia, 241 ; bunodes, ib. , gastro- 

 nomic test of crassicornis, 241, 242 ; 

 peachia, 256 



and Corals, Gosse's History of the 



British (Actinologia Britannica), 284, 

 290, 307, 337, 340 

 Sea-serpent, theory of the, 291, 292, 295 



Sea-side Pleasures, Gosse's, 242 



Seal fishery, departure from and return to, 



Newfoundland, 48 

 Seal pelts delivered, method of checking, 



57. 58 



Sedgwick, Adam, 277 



Sells, Charles, of Poole, 17, 39 



Selma, Alabama, 146 



Serpentine, Asplanchna in, 226 



Sherborne, 157, 163 



Shore, A Year at the, 296, 305, 341 



Sinclair, Lord, 296 



Slade, Elson and Co., 47, 93 ; decline of 

 the firm, 105 



Slavery in Southern States (1838), 142, 143 



Sly, Mrs., 10 



Smith, Anker, A.R.A., 2 



Society for Promoting Christian Know- 

 ledge. Gosse writes for, 169, 170, 173, 

 2ii, 219, 231, 242 



Southey's Thalaba, 351 



Sparrow, America, 115 



Sprague, Mr., 79 



Squirrels in Alabama, 133 



St. John, William Charles, 34, 54-57, 76 ; 

 his father, Oliver, 34 ; portrayed, 34-36 ; 



warm friendship for Gosse, 36, 37 ; 



death, 37 ; letter recounting early walks, 



39, 40; burlesque poem on Gosse, 41, 



42 ; marriage, 68 

 St. John, Hannah and Charlotte, 55 

 St. Mary's, Newfoundland, Gosse a clerk 



in, 61 ; described, 62, 63 

 St. Marychurch, Devon, visit to, 236, 239 ; 



buys a house and settles at, 275 ; life in, 



306, 307, Appendix I. 

 St. Thomas, West Indies, visit to, 204 

 Stacey, Miss Mary, 262 

 Stanley, Bishop, 250 

 Star crane fly of Newfoundland, 101 

 Stephanoceros, 222, 295 

 Stoddards of Massachusetts, 216 

 Sucking fish. See Remoras 

 Surrey Zoological Gardens, collects for 



Aquarium of, 250 

 Swallow, Jamaica green, 223 

 Swanage, at, 20 

 Sy sterna Nature? of Linnaeus, 82, 338 



Tarrant Monkton, 22 



Tegg's London Encyclopaedia, 82 



Tenby, its attractions, 253, 254 ; revisited, 



264 

 , Gosse's, 254, 256, 259, 272 ; profits 



of, 261 

 Thomas, Luke, 30, 32 

 Thoreau, Henry, 161 

 Titton Brook, early recollections of, 6 

 Tom Cringle's Log, Michael Scott's, 185 

 Toole, Ned, and the Ghost, 63, 64 

 Tor Bay, Kingsley and Gosse on, 289 

 Torquay, 351 ; Gosse's burial place, 324 

 Tramp, anecdote of a, 15 

 Troutbeck, Hannah, 215 



, Rev. John, 215 



Trumpet Major, Hardy's The, 22 

 Twohig, Mr., 69 



Van Voorst, John, purchases MS. of 

 Canadian Naturalist, 157 ; friendship 

 to Gosse, 158, 170, 211, 245 



Vivarium, its inventor, 243, 244 



