INDEX 
549 
Seeds transported by sea, 418, 484 
Serpulse, 529 
Sertularia, protecting reef, 494 
Shark killed by Diodon, 14 
Shaw, Dr., on lion’s flesh, 122 
Sheep, infected, 464 
Shelley, lines on Mont Blanc, 178 
Shells, land, in great numbers, 368 
elevated, 86, 137, 180, 343, 367, 395 
tropical forms of, far south, 258 
fossil, of Cordillera, 343 
decomposition of, with salt, 393 
of Galapagos, 416 
at St. Helena, 519 
Shepherd’s dogs, 159 
Shingle-bed of Patagonia, 78, 189 
Shongi, New Zealand chief, 447 
Siberia compared with Patagonia, 69 
zoology of, related to North America, 
140 
Siberian animals, how preserved in ice, 
264 
food necessary during their existence, 
93 . 96 
Sierra de la Ventana, 112 
Tapalguen, 119 
Silicified trees, 354, 376 
Silurian formations at Falkland Islands, 
207 
Silurus, habits of, 144 
Sivatherium, 155 
Skunks, 83 
Slavery, 20, 25, 530 
Smelling power of carrion-hawks, 195 
Smith, Dr. Andrew, on the support of 
large quadrupeds, 88 
on perforated pebbles, 158 
Snake, venomous, 100 
Snow, effects of, on rocks, 340 
prismatic structure of, 347 
red, 345 
Snow-line on Cordillera, 259, 358, 347 
Socego, 23 
Society, state of, in La Plata, 42, 165 
state of, in Australia, 471, 474 
Archipelago, 440 
volcanic phenomena at, 5°5> 5 10 
Soda, nitrate of, 388 
sulphate of, 81 
Soil, frozen, 92, 263 
South American bit, 338 
Spawn on surface of sea, 17 
Species, distribution of, 136, 391 
extinction of, 182 
Spiders, habits of, 37 to 39 
gossamer, 169 
killed by and killing wasps, 37 to 39 
Spiders on Keeling Island, 485 
on St. Paul’s, 10 
Spurs of Guaso, 275 
Springs, hot, 281 
Stevenson, Mr., on growth of seaweed, 
253 
St. Helena, 517 
Tago, C. Verds, 1 
unhealthiness of, 390 
Paul’s rocks, 8 
Fe, 135 
Maria, elevated, 333, 338 
introduction of spirits into, 439 
Louis, Mauritius, 513 
Stinging animals, 493 
Stones perforated, 158, 285 
transported in roots, 490 
Storm, 223, 300 
in Cordillera, 338, 374 
Streams of stones at Falkland Islands, 
207 
Strongylus, 34 
Struthio rhea, 44, 94 
Darwinii, 97 
Strzelecki, Count, 476 
Suadiva atoll, 496 
Subsidence of coral-reefs, 495 to 5 12 
of Patagonia, 180 
of Cordillera, 343, 355 
of Coasts of Chile, 354 
cause of distinctness in Tertiary 
epochs, 367 
of coast of Peru, 379 
of Keeling Island, 496, 504 
ofVanikoro, 504 
of coral-reefs great in amount, 5°9 
Sulphate of lime, 69, 180, 386 
soda with common salt, 69, 81, 386 
soda incrusting the ground, 81 
Swainson, Mr., on cuckoos, 54 
Sydney, 459 
Tab anus, 1S0 
Tahiti (Otaheite), 429 
three zones of fertility, 432 
Fatahua fall, 436 
Christianity in, 437, 441 
Tahitian, 438 
Talcahuano, 311, 324 
Tambillos, Ruinas de, 380 
Tameness of birds, 425 
Tandeel, pumas at, 287 
Tapacolo and Turco, 288 
Tapalguen, Sierra, flat hills of quartz, 
122 
Tarn, Mount, 249 
Tasmania, 474 
