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nd, H., letters to. -on zoological nomenclature. Stripes, loss and significance of. Structural dissimilarity, and sterility. Structure, external conditions in relation to. Struggle for existence. -and crossing. -factors concerned in. -and hybrids. -J. Scott on. Strychnos, F. Muller on. Student, Darwin as an Edinburgh. Studer, Bernhard: Several of Studer's papers were translated and published in the "Edinburgh New Phil. Journ." See Volume XLII., 1847; Volume XLIV., 1848, etc. -on cleavage and foliation. "Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie," Weismann's. "Studies in the Theory of Descent," Meldola's translation of Weismann's book. "Study of Sociology," H. Spencer's. Stur, Dionys (1827-93): Director of the Austrian Geological Survey from 1885 to 1892; author of many important memoirs on palaeobotanical subjects. Style, Darwin on. -Darwin on Huxley's. -effect of controversy on. Suaeda, bloom on. Submergence. Subsidence, evidence of. -coral reefs and. -and elevation. -equable nature of. -large areas simultaneously affected by. -in oceans. -and sedimentation. -volcanic action. Subterranean animal, existence in Patagonia of supposed. Subularia, fertilisation of. Succession of types. Sudden appearance of organisms, due to absence of fossils in pre- Cambrian rocks. Sudden jumps, modification by. -Darwin's disbelief in. Suess, "Antlitz der Erde." Suffolk Crag, comparison with recent strata. Sugar-cane, Barber on hybrids of. -new varieties of. Sulivan, Admiral, on Patagonia. Superficial deposits, geological nature of. Supernumerary members. -amputation followed by regeneration of. "Survival of the fittest," Darwin on use of the expression. -Wallace on the expression. -sharpness of thorns the result of. -colour of birds and. Swainson, on wide range of genera. Switzerland, Tyndall on valleys of. Sydney. Symonds, William Samuel (1818-87): a member of an old West-country family, was an undergraduate of Christ's College, Cambridge, and in 1845 became Rector of Pendock, Worcestershire. He published in 1858 a book entitled "Stones of the Valley;" in 1859 "Old Bones, or Notes for Young Naturalists;" and in 1872 his best-known work, "Records of the Rocks." Mr. Symonds passed the later years of his life at Sunningdale, the house of his son-in-law, Sir Joseph Hooker. (See "Quart. Journ. Geol. So
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