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Spontaneous generation, theory of, i. 34 

 -1 — believed by author of * Vestiges, 



ii. 276 



Spratt, Captain, on depth and tempera- 

 ture of Mediterranean, i. 062-564 . 

 Springbok, migrations of the, ii. 358 

 Springs, ferruginous, i. 410 



brine, i. 410 



carbonated, of Auvergne, i. 411 



siliceous, of Azores, i. 408 



origin of, i. 387 

 of petroleum, i. 413 

 temperature of, raised by earth- 

 quakes, i. 395 

 hot, abundant in volcanic regions, 



i. 394 



calcareous, i. 399 

 sulphureous and gypseous, i. 408 



thermal, of Bath, i. 398 



affected by earthquakes, ii. 128, 146 



Squirrels, migrations of, ii. 357 

 Stabise, buried city of, i. 651 

 Stalagmite, alternating with alluvium 



in caves, ii. 520 

 Stalagmitic limestone of Cuba, ii. 522 

 Stanley, Hon. W., on head of mammoth 



in sunk peat-bed, i. 545 

 Stars, variable splendour of, i. 303 



— heat of the, compared to that of the 



sun, i. 279 

 Stations of plants described, ii. 383 



— . conditions which affect the, 



ii. 443 

 Staveren, formation of Straits of, i. 553 

 Steam, agency of in volcanic eruptions, 



ii. 214, 221,242 

 Steno, advanced theories of, i. 36 

 Stephenson on eruption in Iceland, ii. 49 

 StereognatJius, jaw of, from Stonesfield, 



i. 160 



Sterility, tendency of domesticity to 



eliminate, ii. 312 

 Stevens, Mr. Alfred, on Eournemouth 



flint implements, ii. 562 

 Stevenson, Mr., on waste of cliffs, i. 546 

 Stockholm, rise of land near, ii. 186 

 Stone, E. T., on former excentricities of 



the earth's orbit, i. 292 

 Stone Age, climate of, i. 176, 193 ; ii. 563 

 Stonesfield, fossils of, i. 161 

 Storm, magnetic, of Sept. 1859, ii. 231 

 Storms, effects of, on beach, i. 535 

 Strabo cited, i. 427, 430 



— theory of, i. 23 



— on mud raising the bed of Euxine, i. 

 23 



Strachey, Colonel, on delta of Ganges, 



i. 482 

 Strata contorted by ice, i. 383 

 consolidation of, i. 140 

 table of fossiliferous, i. 139 



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Strata, examp]es of curved and hori- 

 zontal, i. 315, 316 



ancient, submerged, and therefore 

 inaccessible, i. 156 



Stratifications in deltas, causes of, i. 



488 



of debris deposited by currents, i. 



489 

 Strickland, JVIr., on extinction of the 



Dodo, ii. 457 



Stromboli, state of, during Calabrian 



earthquake, ii. 134 

 Stufas, jets of steam in volcanic regions, 



i. 394 



Styx rock ofFPorto Santo, ii. 405, ,426 

 Subapennine strata, climate of, i. 199 

 Subaqueous deposits, imbedding of fos- 

 sils in, ii. 524 

 Submarine forest on Hampshire coast, 



ii. 529 



— volcanos, ii. 58, 63 

 Submergence, proofs of, in Secondary 



and Primary rocks, i. 255 



Subsidence, great areas of, i. 131 



— of land, ii. 165, 234, 552 

 Subterranean changes unseen by us, i. 



99 



— movements, gradual development of, 



i. 119 



uniformity of, i. 315 



Suffolk cliffs undermined, i. 519 

 Sulphureous springs, i. 408 

 Sulphuric acid, lake of, in Java, i. 589 

 Sumatra, linear arrangements of vol- 

 canos in, i. 590 

 animals drowned in river-floods in, 



ii. 539 



Sumbawa, great eruption in island of, 



ii. 104 



subsidence in, ii. 553 



Summer's heat in perihelion counter- 

 acted by melting of snow, i. 271 

 cold in aphelion of extreme excentri- 



city, i. 281 

 Sun, spots in the, ii. 230 

 Sunda, Isles of, volcanic region of, i. 



585 



Sunderbunds, low part of delta of 



Ganges, i. 471 

 'Sunk country' of New Madrid, in 



valley of Mississippi, i. 456 ; ii. 108 

 Supcrga, Miocene erratic blocks of, i. 



206 

 Superior, Lake, deltas of, i. 421 



fossil cypris and chara in, ii. 568 



Surturbrand of Iceland, i. 202 

 ' Survival of the fittest,' ii. 318 



-vvill not account for pro- 

 gress of structure, ii. 491 

 Sussex, waste of coast of, i. 530 

 Sutlej, Eiver, fossils near, i. 1 '^ 



