INDEX. 
517 
Scorpions, cannibals, 165 
Scoresby, Mr., on effects of snow 
on ruzks, 318 ; 
Scrope, Mr., on earthquakes, 352 
Scytalopus fuscus, 237, 289 
Sea, open, inhabitants of, 162 
—, ee Oe nice of, 162 
——, distant noise of, 295 
Sea-pen, habits of, 99, 202 
Sea-weed, growth of, 239 
Seals, number of, 284 
Seeds transported. by sea, 392, 454 
Serpula, protecting reef, 498 
Shark killed by Diodon, 14 
Shaw, Dr., on lion’s flesh, 116 
Sheep, infected, 436 
Shelley, lines on Mont Blane, 168 
Shells, land, in great numbers, 347 
, at St. Helena, 488 
Shells, fossil, of Cordillera, 321 
—— of Galapagos, 390 
— elevated, 83, 130, 171, 254, 
344, 369 
—, tropical forms of, far south, 
243 
——,, decomposition of, with salt, 369 
Shepherd’s dogs, 149 
Shingle-bed of Patagonia, 75, 171 
Siberia compared with Patagonia, 67 
———,, zoology of, related to North 
America, 182 . 
Siberian animals, how preserved in 
ice, 250 
, food necessary dur- 
ing their existence, 89 
Silicified trees, 333, 353 
Silurian formations at Falkland Is- 
lands, 196 
Silurus, habits of, 136 
Skunks, 80 ; 
Slavery, 20, 24, 499 : 
Smelling power of carrion-hawks, 
184 
Smith, Dr. Andrew, on the support 
of large quadrupeds, 85 
» on perforated 
pebbles, 149 2 
Snake, venomous, 96 
Snow-line on Cordillera, 244, 322, 
325 
Snow, effects of on rocks, 318 
—, prismatic structure of, 325 
——, red, 322 
Society, state of in La Plata, 41,157 
Society, state of, in Australia, 443 
—— Archipelago, 402 
» volcanic phe- 
nomena at, 475, 481 
Soda, nitrate of, 362 
—, sulphate of, 78 
Soil, frozen, 88, 248 
Spawn on surface of sea, 17 
Species, distribution of, 131, 363 
» extinction of, i74 
Spiders, habits of, 35—38 
———, gossamer, 159 
killed by and killing wasps 
35 to 37 
on Keeling Island, 456 
on St. Paul’s, 10 
Springs, hot, 263 
Stevenson, Mr., on growth of sca 
weed, 239 
Stinging animals, 464 
St. Helena, 486 
————-, introduction of spirits 
into, 412 
— Fé, 129 
— Jago, C. Verds, 1 
———_——_, unheal thiness of, 366 
— Jago, Chile, 262 
— Maria, elevated, 307, 310 
— Paul's rocks, 8 
Stones perforated, 149, 267 
transported in roots, 461 
Storm, 217, 281 
in Cordillera, 324, 360 
Streams of stones at Falkland Islands, 
197 
Strongylus, 32 
Struthio Rhea, 43, 89 
Darwinii, 92 
Strzelecki, Count, 448 
Suadiva atoll, 466 
Subsidence of coral reefs, 467 to 482 
of Keeling Island, 475 
of Patagonia, 172 
— of coast of Peru, 369 
of Cordillera, 321, 333 
of Coasts of Chile, 344 
of Vanikoro, 475 
—— of coral reefs great in 
amount, 479 
———.—, cause of distinctness in 
Tertiary epochs, 344 
Sulphate of lime, 66, 171, 369 
——— soda imncrusting the 
ground, 78 
