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Show 926 INDEX. Rennie, Rev. Dr., on the formation of peat, 210. --on the recent origin of some peatmosses, 212. -- on the destruction of Ew·opean forests by the Romans, 214. -- on the occurrence of iron-ore in peat-mosses, 215. -- on the preservation of human remains in peat, 215. --on sub-marine peat, 21!). Reptiles, their geographical distribution, 103. -- distinct regions of indigenous, 103. -- their powers of diffusion, 103. --in Ireland, legend of their destruc-tion by St. Patrick, 103. -- imbedding of the remains of, in subaqueous deposits, 24G. Retriever, M. Majendie on the faculty of the, 40. Rhinoceroses, hundreds swept away by a river flood in Java, 250. Rhone, a cannon imbedded in calcaI'eous rock taken up from its delta, 262. Richardson, Dr., on the rocky mountain sheep, 45. --on the imbedding of drift timber in Slave Lake, 241. -- on the cause of the abundance of drift wood in the Mackenzie, 243. River inundations, animals imbedded by, 247, 248, 253. Rocks, their antiquity may have no connexion with the period of their elevation, 309. Rocky mountain sheep, Dr. Richru·dson on the, 45. Rolander on the balance of power among species, 133. Roman coins, &c., discovered in peat, 213. Rossberg, 800 people destroyed by the slide of the, 229. Rother, a Dutch vessel found buried in its old channel, 2GO. Roulin, l\1., on acquired instincts which have become hereditary in dogs, 39. Rousseau, alternation of coral and volcanic cinders at, 295. Runn of Cutch, ship nails, &c., thrown out of fissures in the, 267. Running water, igneous causes the antagonist power to the action of, 194. Sand, drift, imbedding of organic remains, &c. in, 234. --cities and towns in Egypt buried under, 234. - carcasses of camels imbedded in, 235. San Lorenzo, isle of, said to have been formed by the subsidence of the pro. montory of Callao, 265. Santorin, gulf of, volcanic~rocks in the lagoons of Gambier's group like those in the, 291. Sardinia, its flora but little known, 103. Savanna la l\Iar, town of, swept away Ly the sea, 233. Scotland, peat mosses of, 213. --cattle often mired in them, 217. -- animals imbedded by floorls iu, 248. --quadrupeds found imLedded in the marl lakes of, 251. -- shell marl obtained from some small lakes in, 272. -- charre found fossil in the marl lakes of, 273. --but few species in the marls of, 277, Scoresby, Capt., his experiments on the impregnation of wood by sea-water, 240, 261. Sea, its ravages on low coasts during earthquakes, 232. -- sometimes fresher at great depths than at the surface, 287. -- estimate of the amount of, con• verted into land since the deposition of the tertiary strata, 305. Sea-cow cast ashore near Leith, 278. Seals, their migration, 99. Sea-weed, large banks fol'med by drift, 78, 277. Sections of coral islands, see diagrams, No.6 and 7, 290. Sedgwick, Professor, his theory of the antagonist power of vegetation con· troverted, 190. --· on eras of paroxysmal convulsion, 197. -- on the preservation of organic re. mains in fissures, 220. Selside, great fissure in limestone at, 220. Senes, E. R. A., on the changes in the brain of the footus in vertebrated ani· mals, 62. Serres, M. Marcel de, on the changes which some human bones have undergone in fourteen or fifteen centuries, 225. -- on human remains in French caves, 224. Sheep, great multiplication of in South America, 153. Shell marl, on the formation of, in the lakes of Scotland, 272, 299. Shells found in the calcareous marl of the Scotch lakes, 272. Shifts or faults, ancient and modern compared, 105. Ships, British, number annually wreck• ed, 254, 257. INDEX. 327 Ships of war, number lost during the French war, 256. -- several found Luried in recent strata, 219, 2(i0. Sibbald on a turtle taken in the Orkneys, 104. -- his account of whales stranded at Burnt island, &c, 278. Siberia, drift timber accumulated on the east coast of, 244. Sicily, several thousand people entombed at once by an earthquake in, 232. Silliman, P1·ofessor, his account of a vessel overturned by the bore or tidal wave in Nova Scotia, 260. Sindree, a new salt lake formed by subsidence in the delta of the Indus near, 266. --the fort of, subsided without falling, 266. --.elevation of Ullah Bnnd near, 266. Sipparah, river, its course changed, 238. Skeleton, human, imbedded at Guadaloupe, 259. -- found in Paviland cave, 223, 226. Slave Lake, accumulation of drift timber in, 241. Sligo, bursting of a peat moss in, 213. Sloane, Sir H., on the dispersion of seeds by the gulf stream, 76. Smith, Sir J., on the propag-ation of plants by buds, grafts, &c., 32. -- on the distribution of seeds by birds, 30. Smyth, Capt. W. H., on floating islands of drift wood, 98. --on the drifting of Lirds by a gale of wind in the .!\Iediterranean, 10:2. -- on the diffusion of insects by the wind, 115. -- on the average number of Bl'itish merchant vessels lost daily, 257. --on the number of men of war lost from 1793 to 1829, 257. -- found broken shtllls at great depth~ between Gibraltar and Ceuta, 281. Smyth, Lieutenant, his account of Ilenderson's Island, 297. Soil, its influence on the colours of the petals of plants, 34. Soils, on the formation of, 183. Solway moss described, 217. ~- a man and horse, in armour, ; found in, 217. --account of the bursting of, 217. Solway F1·ith, animals washed by 1·iver floods into, 243. Somme, peat-mosses in the valley of the, 219. Sot·tino Vecchio, several thousand peo-ple entombed at once in caverna at, 282. South America, wild horses annually drowned in g1·eat numbers in, 247. --recent changes of level in, 265. Souvignargues, human remains found with extinct animals in a cave at, 225. Spallanzani on the effects of heat on the seeds of plants, 77. -- on the flight of birds, 102. Species, definition of the term, 2. -- Liuurons on the comtancy of, 3. -- Lamarck's theory of the eransmu~ tation of, 3. -- insufficiency of the arguments in favour of the t1·ansmutatiou of, 18. --causes of the difficulty of discrimi .. nating, 21. --causes of variability in the same, 24. --extent of known variability in, 26. -- variability of a, compat·ed to that of au individual, 36. --extent of change in, 37. -- inferences as to their reality in na .. ture, 64. -- laws which regulate their geo-graphical distribution, 66. -- theories respecting theit· first in· troduction, 123. -- proposal of an hypothesis as to theh· first introduction, 124. -- effeets which would result f1·om the introduction of single pairs of each, 126. -- llrocchi on the extinction of, 128. -- Rolauder on the balance of power amoug, 133. -- recip1·ocal influence of aquatic and terrestrial, 133. -- their succeSRive destruction part of the order of nature, 141. --effect of the extension of the range of, 142. --power of exte~·minating them no prerogative of man, 15{i. -- influence of inorganic causes in changing their habitations, 153. --effect of changes in physical geo• . graphy on their· distribution, lGO, 308. -- their successive extinction pa1·t of the economy of nature, lG8, 176. --effect of changes of climate on their distribution, I G9, 308. -- influence of climate in causing one to give way before another, 172. -- barriers which oppose their distri. bution, 172. -- remarks on the conversion of one into another, 174. -- their local distribution, 176. |
