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- Scorpions, cannibals, 165
- Scoresby, Mr., on effects of snow on rocks, 318
- Scrope, Mr., on earthquakes, 352
- Scytalopus fuscus, 237, 289
- Sea, open, inhabitants of, 162
- , phosphorescence of, 162
- , distant noise of, 29.5
- Sea-pen. habits of, 99, 202
- Sea-weed, growth of, 239
- Seals, number of, 284
- Seeds transported by sea, 392, 454
- Serpulæ, protecting reef, 498
- Shark killed by Diodon, 14
- Shaw, Dr., on lion's flesh, 116
- Sheep, infected, 436
- Shelley, lines on Mont Blanc, 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, 132
- Siberian animals, how preserved in ice, 250
- , food necessary during their existence, 89
- Silicified trees, 333, 353
- Silurian formations at Falkland Islands, 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
- 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 phenomena 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, 174
- 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 seaweed, 239
- Stinging animals, 464
- St. Helena, 486
- , introduction of spirits into, 412
- Fé, 129
- Jago, C. Verds, 1
- , unhealthiness 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. 4.3, 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 incrusting the ground, 78
