1104 
THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
Siquijor Island, 652. 
“Sir Andrew Hammond,” the, 699. 
Siriella, 136, 742 ; S. gracilis, 742 ; S. 
thompsonii, 742. 
“Sirius,” H.M.S., 697. 
Siyako, 747. 
Skint, 189, 729 ; see also Scincida?. 
Skipjacks, 729. 
Skua, 261, 266, 295, 357. 
Skull, see Crania. 
Sladen, W. Percy, on the Asteroidea, 607, 
1070. 
Slip water-bottle, 111. 
Sloggett, Lieut. H. C., 19. 
Small Fukube Island, 747. 
Smith, Capt. Daniel, 764. 
Smith, Edgar A., on the Lamellibranch- 
iata, 624, 1070 ; on Land Mollusca, 
56, 148, 188, 269, 485, 518, 556, 729, 
829, 892 ; on Lepty chaster Jeer guelensis, 
390,' 391 ; on Ophioglypha, 394. 
Smith, Mr., xxxix. 
Smith and Bransfield, 415, 416. 
Smitt, Prof. S. I., 585. 
Smyth Channel, 867, 868. 
Snakes, 127, 536, 548, 600, 681, 729.- 
' Snowy, Channel, 870 ; Sound, 870. 
Society Islands, 763, 776, 965. 
Society for Propagation of the Gospel, 247, 
250. 
Soil of Juan Fernandez, 826. 
Sojoton Point, 618. 
Soldier-crab, 150. 
Solitary Island, 344. 
Sollas, Prof. W. J., on Monaxonida, 569 ; 
on the Tetractinellida, 451, 1070. 
Solomon Islands, 710, 717, 720, 722, 924. 
Sombrero Island, 121, 123 ; Peak, 862. 
Somerset, Cape York, 532. 
Sonchus oleraceus, 253, 257, 828. 
Sooty Albatross, 299. 
Sounding, apparatus for, 57 ; Buchanan’s 
combined water-bottle and tube, 117 ; 
earliest records of, xxxv ; gear, 42 ; 
Hooke’s method of, xxxiv ; lines, 41, 
57 (cost of, 58 ; rate of descent of, 65 ; 
wire' rope for, 70; reels for, 58); 
machines for, 59, 117 (Baillie, 60 ; 
Brooke’s, xliv ; Hydra, 59) ; method 
of, 63 ; remarkable, 132, 735 ; rods, 
41 (Baillie, 18 ; Hydra, 18); tables 
of, during voyage, 67, 68, 1007 ; tem- 
perature, 24 ; tubes, 117. 
Soundings, Abrolhos Island to Tristan da 
Cunha, 237 ; Admiralty Islands to 
Japan, 734 : in Agulhas Current, 423 ; 
Azores to Madeira, 180 ; off Bermuda, 
139 ; Bermuda to the Azores, 167 ; 
Bermuda to Halifax, 153 ; Bermuda 
to New York, 157; on British Antare- 
Soundings — 
tic Expedition, xli; Falkland Islands 
to Lobos Island, 902 ; Fernando Nor- 
onha to Bahia, 215, 216; Gibraltar 
to Madeira, 48 ; Halifax to Bermuda, 
160 ; off Inaccessible Island, 255 ; at 
the entrance to Island Harbour, 339 ; 
off Kerguelen Island, 360 ; Kerguelen 
to M c Donald Islands, 367 ; Joflf Ki 
Islands, 556; Madeira to St. Yincent, 
182, 183 ; off Porto Praya, 192 ; near 
St. Paul’s Rocks, 193 ; at St. Paul’s 
Rocks, 206 ; St. Paul’s Pocks to Fer- 
nando Noronha, 210 ; St. Thomas to 
Bermuda, 134 ; St. Vincent to San 
Antonio, 188 ; in neighbourhood of 
San Antonio, 182 ; off Swain Island, 
340 ; Sydney to Cook’s Strait, 467 ; 
Tenerife to St. Thomas, 121 ; Tristan 
da Cunha to Ascension, 909; off Wat- 
son’s Bay, 463. 
South Africa, the Bush race in, 733. 
South America, 933 ; surface drift on 
coast of, 886. 
South Georgia, 969. 
South Orkneys, 416, 969. 
South Sea, 875. 
South Sea Islands, 730. 
South Shetland Islands, 416, 878, 969. 
South Trinidad, 943 ; flora of, 944. 
Southeast Hill, 862. 
Southeastern Australia, 462. 
Southeastern Moluccas, 943 ; flora of, 945. 
Southern Ocean, 449. 
Sow thistle, 253, 257, 828. 
Soya Mountain, 578. 
Sozu Sima, 747. 
Spaniards, at Juan Fernandez, 823, 825 ; 
at the Moluccas, 595. 
Spanish authority in South Pacific, 824. ' 
Sparassus, 187. 
Spartina arundinacea, 253, 257, 944. 
Spartocytisus nwbigenus, 54. 
Spatangi, xliii. 
Spears, of Admiralty Islanders, 717 ; of 
Australian aborigines, 538 ; at Wokan, 
547. 
Species, anatomical structure in the de- 
termination of, 365 ; tegumentary 
appendages in the determination of, 
365. 
“ Speedwell,” wreck of the, 821. 
Spencer’s Monument, 48. 
Sphcerarthrvm, 548. 
Sphseroida, 224. 
Sphceroidina, 218, 511, 919, 930 ; S. dehis- 
■ cens, 194, 512, 803, 838, 841, 912. 
Sphaeromidse, 881.. 
Sphasrozoida, 224. 
Sphoerozoum, 220. 
Spheniscidse, account of the, 361 ; distribu- 
tion in time of, 363 ; geographical dis- 
tribution of, 362 ; structural features 
of, 361. 
Spheniscus, 259, 361 ; S. demersus, 259, 
362, 364, 894 ; S. magellanicus, 259, 
362, 364 ; S. mendiculus, 362, 364 ; 
S. minor, 362, 364. 
Spherules, cosmic, see Cosmic Spherules; 
zeolitic, 815. 
Sphingidse, 148. 
Sphinx Moths, 127. 
Spice at Ternate, 597. 
Spider’s web catching bird, 556. 
Spiders, at Api, 518 ; at Bermuda, 148 ; 
at Cape Verde Islands, 187 ; at 
Fiji, 489 ; at Kerguelen Island, 357 ; 
at Mount St. Michael, 214 ; at St. 
Paul’s Rocks, 205 ; at St. . Thomas, 
128 ; at Tenerife, 55 ; at Tongatabu, 
485 ; at Tristan, 205. 
Spilbergen, Joris, 875. 
Spines on Isopoda, 881. 
Spiochcetopterus, 630. 
Spiramia funestis, 580. 
Spirialis, 219. 
Spirifera, 893 ; S. antarctica, 893 ; 8. 
cultrijugata, 893 ; S. hawJcinsii, 893 ; 
S. orbignii, 893 ; S. speciosa, 893. 
Spirit for preserving specimens, 7. 
Spiroloeulina teriuis, 912. 
Spirorbis, 136. 
Spirula, 125, 269, 933 ; capture of, 560 ; 
shell of, 530 ; S. australis, 274. 
Spit Bay, 377. 
Spithead, 941. 
Spitzbergen, xlvi, 959, 967. 
Spoggodes, 689. 
Spondias, 713. 
Sponge Bay, 211. 
Sponges, 898 ; Calcareous, 639 ; Hexac- 
tinellid, 437; Keratose, 643; Monax- 
onid, 569 ; Siliceous, 443, 450, 650, 
775, 804 ; Tetractinellid, 451. 
Spongia, 450, 
Spoon-sticks, 712. 
Spratt, Capt., xliii. 
Sprightly Bay, 344. 
Springs, boiling, at Furnas, 176. 
Spry, W. J. J., 19. 
Spry Rock, 345. 
Spumellaria, 222, 224, 227. 
Spurilla sargassicola, 136. 
Spur-winged Plover, 359. 
Squadron Rocks, 466. 
Squilla, 188; larva of, 818. 
Squillerichthus, 219, 818. 
Stachyptilidae, 51. 
Stag’s-horn Fern, 459, 547. 
Stalked Crinoids, account of the, 303. 
