INDEX 
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, quoted, 
268. 
Salisbury, R. D, See Chamberlin, 
Thomas CG. 
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 Falla, 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 (Dendrotca 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 
logeock (Phleotomus  pileatus 
abteticola), 255, 256. 
World, end of the, 266, 267. 
Wren, cafion (Catherpes mexicanus 
conspersus), 70. 
Yosemite, its charms, 71, 72; some 
of its features, 73-75; contrasted 
with the Grand Cafion, 75-78; 
oaks in, 78, 79; geology of, 79-83. 
Yosemite Falls, 75, 77, 78. 
