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INDEX. 



Conoclypus Sigsbei, ii. 99. 

 Conolampas, ii. 97. 

 Conolampas Sigsbei, ii. 99. 

 Continental areas, deposits on, i. 140. 

 Continental belt, temperature of, i. 302. 

 Continental connections, extent of, i. 121. 

 Continental denudation, i. 282. 

 Continental faiina, i. 162. 



decrease of, i. 107- 

 Continental formations, i. 143. 

 Continental lands, height of, i. 126. 

 Continental line, ancient extension of, i. 



136. 

 Continental masses, i. 126. 



effect on distribution of temperature, i. 

 248. 



Kriimmel on elevation of, i. 126. 



nucleus of, i. 126. 



Continental plateau, edge of, i. 108. 

 Continental shelf, i. 96. 



absence of argillaceous matter on, i. 

 274. 



sandy plain of, i. 272. 



Continental slopes, abundance of animal life 

 on, i. 107. 



fauna adjacent to, i. 106. 

 Continents and oceanic basins, Agassiz, L., 

 on age of, i. 127. 



Carpenter, W. B., on age of, i. 127. 



Dana on age of, i. 127. 



Geikie, A., on great age of, i. 127. 



Guyot on great age of, i. 127. 



Thomson, Wyville, on age of, i. 127. 



Wallace on age of, i. 127. 

 Continents, permanence of, i. 125. 

 Convection through ocean water, i. 304. 

 Copepods, fertility of, i. 204. 



pelagic, i. 178. 



Coquimbo, elevated coast near, i. 129. 

 Coquina of St. Augustine, i. 67, 68. 

 Coral bottom, extent of, i. 286. 

 Coral boulders, i. 55. 

 Coral breccia, cementation of, i. 54. 

 Corallines, i. 55. 



Coral reef of Florida, Agassiz' s theory of, 

 i. 55. 



Leconte, J., on theory of, i. 55. 



report on by A. Agassiz, i. xxi. 



theory of E. B. Hunt, i. 55. 

 Coral reefs, ancient, near Havana, i. 71. 



Darwin's theory of, i. 55, 80. 



distribution of, i. 76, 286. 



effect of light on, i. 306. 



grinding and rehandling of material on, 

 i. 55. 



of former geological periods, i. 169. 



Coral reefs, northern extension of, i. 161. 



Semper on, i. 76. 



Studer on, i. 76. 



Coral rock shores, undermining of. i. 87. 

 Corals, ii. 148. 



absence of simple species in Caribbean 

 area, ii. 19. 



composition of, i. 148. 



depth of, affected by local causes, i. 74. 



known previous to " Blake" Expedition, 

 ii. 7- 



limit to which they extend, i. 74. 



living on edge of Bahama Bank, i. 75. 



of Chag'os Archipelago, i. 74. 



of miocene beds, ii. 19. 



Sharpies, S. P., analysis of, i. 62. 

 Coral sand beach, i. 86. 

 Coral sand, held in suspension, i. 84. 



Wright, on slope of, i. 83. 

 Coral silt, carried along the bottom, i 84. 

 Corbulse of Plumularidje, ii. 137. 

 Corniferous bone beds, i. 14.~> 

 Cornuspira foliacea, ii. 1(51. 

 Corycodus bullatus, ii. 39. 

 Coryphaena, i. 193. 

 Coryphsenoides, ii. 26. 

 Cosmopolitan species, i. 162. 

 Crang'onidfe, ii. 45. 

 Crania Pourtalesii, ii. 77. 

 Cretaceous deposits of Isthmus of Panama, 



i. 113. 



Cretaceous sea, Jeffreys on depth of, i. 146. 

 Cretaceous types, i. 151. 



in West Indian miocene, ii. 19. 

 Cribrella hospitalis, ii. 178. 

 Crinoid collection, disposition of, ii. 6. 

 Crinoids, ii. 116. 



color of deep-sea, i, 312. 



known previous to " Blake " Expedition, 

 ii. 6. 



P. H. Carpenter on, i. xxi. 

 Crinoids and trilobites, great development of 



in Silurian, i. 155. 

 Crisia denticulata, ii. 78, 79. 

 Crisia eburnea, ii. 79. 

 Cristellaria calcar, ii. 166. 

 Cristellaria crepidula, ii. 166. 

 Croll, i. 247. 



Cruises of the " Blake " in 1877, i. 50, 80. 

 Crustacea, ii. 37. 



bathymetrical range of, i. 169. 



habits of deep-sea, i. 311. 



knowledge of previous to " Blake " Ex- 

 pedition, ii. 4. 



living under moist stones, i. 153. 



modifications of, ii. 44. 



