216 
Siliceous bottom deposits of Caribbean, i. 289. 
Siliceous sponges, abundance of, i. 149. 
Siliquaria modesta, ii. 71. 
Silt, accumulation of, off Hatteras, i. 209. 
deposition of, to south of Windward 
Passage, i. 202. 
deposits of, i. 141. 
precipitation of, 1. 138. 
transfer of masses of, i. 131, 
Siphonophores, ii. 132. 
bathymetrical range of, i. 185. 
Skates, deep-water types of, i. 193. 
Slime, organie, at great depths, i. 203. 
Smith, E. A., on geology of Florida, i. 110. 
Smith and Hilgard on the Florida backbone, 
i Oils 
Smith, S. L, on range of crustacea, ii. 16. 
Report on Crustacea, i. xxi. 
Smitt, i. 42. 
on range of bryozoa, ii. 15. 
Report on Bryozoa, i. xxi. 
Snappers, ii. 28. 
Solaster endeca, ii. 108. 
Solenodon, i. 114. 
Solid matter, held in solution, i. 128. 
Solution of shells in deep water, i. 147, 
Sombrero, island of, i. xix. 
Sorosphera confusa, ii. 162. 
Sounding, aceumulator used in, i. 8. 
deepest, by Brownson, i. 50, 238. 
deepest, made, i. 97. 
error in, i. 12. 
in currents, i. 1. 
line for, i. 2. 
records of, i. 13. 
reel for, i. 7. 
reeling in pulley for, i. 8. 
register for, i. 8. 
time occupied in, i. 12, 13. 
Soundings, along course of Gulf Stream, Bai- 
ley on character of, i. 272, 
along New England by U. S. Fish Com- 
mission, i. 273. 
extraordinary, i. 1. 
from Havana to Bahia Honda, i. ix. 
from Havana to Sand Key, i. ix. 
Soundings: horizontal distance between the 
one hundred and the fifteen hundred 
fathom line, i. 101. 
one hundred fathom line, course of, i. 93. 
one hundred fathom line, absence of 
south of Hatteras, i. 185. 
one hundred fathom line, George's Bank 
to Hatteras, i. 93. 
one hundred fathom line south of Hat- 
teras, i. 93. 
! St. 
INDEX. 
Soundings: one hundred fathom line of West 
India Islands, i. 111. 
five hundred fathom line of West India 
Islands, i. 111, 112. 
off Montauk Point, Bailey on, i. 272. 
one thousand fathom line, i. 96. 
two thousand fathom line, i. 96. 
two thousand. fathom line north of Cape 
Cañaveral, i. 96. 
twenty-five hundred fathom line, i. 97. 
Sounding wire, weight of, i. 11. 
Sounding with wire, i. 2. 
advantage of, i. 11. 
by ‘ Blake,” i. 50. 
Thomson on, i. 4. 
South America, before the tertiary period, 
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disconnected from North America, i. 
116. 
South Ameriean fauna and flora, relations of, 
i. 109. 
Southern equatorial eurrent, i. 243. 
Southern fauna, northern extension of, i. 
119. 
Species, localization of, i. 168. 
Specifie gravity, of North Atlantie, i. 298. 
of ocean water, i. 298. 
of rocks from great depths, i. 287. 
of sea water of American coast, i. 299. 
Spheerozoum, i. 195. 
Sphargis, i, 188. 
Spirialis, i. 265. 
Spirula, ii. 61. 
shell of, i. 169. 
Spitzbergen, rising of coast of, i. 199. 
Sponges, ii. 170. 
color of deep-sea, i. 312. 
distribution of, ii. 17. 
Haeckel on individuality of, ii. 170. 
in shallow waters of cretaceous, i. 149, 
of the “Blake,” Sehmidt on the, ii. 
1*0. 
on West Bank of Florida, i. 149. 
Report on, by O. Sehmidt, i. xxi. 
Schmidt on individuality of, ii. 170. 
siliceous, absent on east coast of U. S., 
ii. 170. 
Sponge sarcode, i. 149. 
Squids, giant species of, i. 191. 
St. Eustatius, island of, i. xv. 
St. Kitts, island of, i. xv. 
St. Lucia, island of, i. xvii. 
Paul's Rocks, i. 127. 
St. Pierre, i. xvi. 
St. Thomas, island of, i. xiv. 
St. Vincent, island of, i. xviii. 
