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INDEX.

The Fossils, the names of which are printed in Italics, are figured in the Text.

ABBEVILLE

ANHYDROUS

BISILICATES

ABBEVILLE, flint tool, figure of, 122

Acadian series, 456

Acer trilobatum, Miocene, 187
Acid rocks, 567

Acrodus nobilis, Lias, 318
Acrogens, term explained, 173
Acrolepis Sedgwickii, Permian, 349
Acteon acutus, Great Oolite, 304
Actinocyclus in Atlantic mud, 248
Actinolite, 558
schist, 527
Adapis, 198

Adiantites Hibernica, Old Red, 410
Echmodus Leachii, Lias, 318
Aerial, or Eolian rocks, 5
Agassiz on fish of the Lias, 316

on heterocercal fish-tails, 316
on Old Red fossil fish, 401, 403
on Silurian fish, 423, 427
Age of metamorphic rocks, 537
of Plutonic rocks, 507
of strata, tests of, 93, 98
of volcanic rocks, 473
Agglomerate described, 574
Agnostus integer. A. Rex, 455
Air-breathers of the coal, 383
Airdrie, glacial shells of, 145

Aix-la-Chapelle, Cretaceous flora of, 262
Albien of French, Cretaceous series, 243
Albite, 558, 562

Aldeby and Chillesford beds, 151

Alleghany Mts., thickness of Palæozoic
rocks in, 85

bituminous coal of, 380

Alluvial deposits, Recent and Pleistocene,
119, 120, 125

Alluvium, term explained, 77

in Auvergne, 78

Alpine blocks on the Jura, 131

Alps, age of metamorphic rocks in, 538
nummulitic limestone and flysch of,

237
Alternations of marine and freshwater
strata, 34, 49

of upheaval and subsidence, 84
Alum Bay beds, 221

-schists of Norway and Sweden, 455

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Cretaceous strata of, Conrad on, 266
Pre-Cambrian rocks of, 458
Silurian strata of, 445

South, gradual rise of land in, 48
American character of Swiss flora, 206
coal-measures, footprints in, 390
Amiens, flint tools of, 101
Ammonites of the Gault, 261
Ammonites bifrons, Lias, 315
Braikenridgii, Oolite, 310
Bucklandi, Lias, 315
Deshayesii, Neocomian, 272
Humphresianus, Inf. Oolite, 310
Jason, Oxford Clay, 299
Noricus, Speeton, 273
macrocephalus, Oolite, 311
margaritatus, Lias, 315
planorbis, Lias, 325

Rhotomagensis, Chalk marl, 259

Amphibia, Carboniferous, 388

Amphibole group of minerals, 558

Amphistegina Hauering, Vienna basin, 192

Amphitherium Broderipii, Stonestie:d slate,

307

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Omalii, Crag, 165

Asterophyllites foliosus, Coal, 370

Astrangia lineata (Anthophyllum lineatum),
177

Astropecten crispatus, London clay, 229
Atherfield clay, 270

Atlantic mud, composition of, 248
Atrypa reticularis, Aymestry, 426
Aturia ziczac (Nautilus ziczac), 228
Angite, 558, 560, 572

--Andesite, 572

-Hornblende group, 560
Auricula, recent, 31

Auriferous deposits, 179, 554
Aust, Rhætic beds of, 326

Austen, Mr. Godwin, on marine deposit of
Se.sea Bill, 152

on boulders in Chalk, 252

Australia, auriferous gravel of, 554
extinct marsupials of, 128

volcanic rocks of, 486, 488

Australian cave breccias, 128

Auvergne, alluvium in, 78

chain of extinct volcanoes in, 464, 479

freshwater strata of, 28

granite veins in, 549

Miocene volcanic rocks of, 489

Oligocene of, 200

Pleistocene volcanic eruptions in, 479

Pliocene, mammalis of, 174

springs from spent volcanoes, 517

Aricula contorta, Rhætic beds, 326
cygnipes, Lias, 314

inæquivalvis, Lias, 314

socialis, Muschelkalk, 338

Aviculopecten papyraceus, Coal-measures,

382

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of Auvergne, fossil, 201

--in Coprolite bed of Chloritic series,
260

Birds of Paris basin, 234

Bischoff, Professor, on conversion of Coal
into Anthracite, 379

on hydrothermal action, 518

B'ocks, Alpine, on the Jura, 139
Bog-iron ore, 27, 565

Bohemia, Cambrian rocks of, 454

Silurian rocks of, 444

-silver veins in, 554

Bolderberg, in Belgium, Oligocene of, 202
Bone-bed of fish remains, Armagh and
Bristol, 326

of Upper Ludlow, 423

of the Trias, 326

Boom, Oligocene of, 202

Bordeaux, Miocene of, 181

Borrowdale series, 442

Botanical nomenclature, 173

Boucher de Perthes on Abbeville alluvium,

121

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Brachiopoda, preponderance of, in older
rocks, 435

of the White Chalk, 253

Silurian period, 435

Bracklesham beds and Bagshot sands, 218
Bradford Encrinites, 302
Brazilian caves, 129

Breaks, palæontological, 70, 110
Breccia described, 11

Breccias of Lower Permian, 350
Brick-earth or fluviatile loam, 124
Bridlington drift, 127

Bristol, dolomitic conglomerate of, 331
carboniferous bone-bed near, 399
section south of, 99
Briti-h Cretaceous, 247

Brixham cave near Torquay, 127
Brocchi on Italian tertiary strata, 111
Brockenhurst, corals and shells of, 208
Broderip, Mr., on Stonesfield Mammalia,
306

Brodie, Rev. P. B., on Lias insects, 323
Brongniart, M. Adolphe, on botanical no-
menclature, 173

Bronteus fabellifer, Devonian, 415
Brontotherida, 193

Bronze weapons of lake-dwellings, 118
Bronzite, 558, 561

Brora, Oolitic coal formation of, 309
Brown, Mr. Richard, on Stigmaria, 372
-on Carboniferous rainprints, 389
Robert, on Eocene proteaceous fruit,

227

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-- of Faxoe, 246

flints, origin of, 249

fossils of the White, 253

iceborne boulders in the, 252

Lower White, without flints, 258
of Maestricht, 243

of North and South of Europe, 264
marl, fossils of the, 259

Upper White, 247

vitreous sponges of the, 251

Chalkpit with potstones, view of, 251
Challenger, H.M. ship, dredgings by, 488
Chama squamosa, Barton, 217

Champlain series, 154

Champoleon, junction of granite with
Jurassic strata near, 510

Chara elastica, C. medicaginula, 33
tuberculata, Bembridge, 210
Cheirotherium, footprints of, 332
Chemical deposits in veins, 551
--and mechanical deposits, 36
Cheshire, slab of ripple-marked sandstone
from, 21

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Conularia ornata, Devonian, 414
Conulus priscus, Coal, 388

Conus deperditus, Bracklesham, 221
Copper lode near Redruth, 548

Coprolite beds of Red and Coralline crags,
162

Coprolites of fish, from the Chalk, 268, 322
Coral atoll, 48

rag, fossils of the, 298

Coralline or White Crag, 163

percentage of extinct species in, 167

Corals of the Carboniferous, 392

of the Devonian, 413

Miocene of United States, 177
Neozoic type of, 393
Palæozoic type of, 392

Corbula písum, Hempstead beds, 208
sub-pisum, 196

Cordiates of the Coal, 378

Cornbrash or Forest Marble, 300

Cornstones, 408

Cornwall, granite veins in, 505

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