INDEX. 



453 



Koch, Dr., on Zeuglodon, 204. 



&quot; &quot; &quot; prehistoric man, 356. 

 Koniuck on Pentacrinus, 321. 

 Kuttenberger mine, 440. 



Laboratory of Nature, 282. 

 Labyrinthodonts, 168, 171, 172, 173, 317. 

 &quot; a synthetic type, 318. 



Lacustrine origin of prairie soils, 268. 



&quot; sediments without germs, 270. 

 La Denise Mountain, 356. 

 Lculaps aquiluHfiitis, 191, 192. 

 Lagoon, Continental, 94, 105. 

 Lake Superior, geology of, 78, 82, 84, 339. 

 &quot; outlines of, 84. 

 &quot; in Mesozoic times, 196. 



&quot; glacier action near, 215. 



&quot; why not salt, 295. 



&quot; basins excavated, 220. 



&quot; &quot; where located, 225. 



&quot; habitations, piles in, 257. 

 Lakes, the great, geology of, 124. 



&quot; from freshening of seas, 204, 232. 



&quot; related to ancient shores, 224. 



&quot; of Central New York, 225. 



&quot; influence of, on climate, 225. 



&quot; small, how formed, 236, 237. 



&quot; filled up, 237. 



&quot; former high water of, 241. 

 Lamellibranchs, 316. 

 Lancashi rectos of, 253. 

 Laud, first o^rergence of, 72. 

 Landscape, ideal, of Devonian Age, 130. 

 &quot; &quot; &quot; Carboniferous times, 



150, 158. 

 Landscape, ideal, of Reptilian Age, 177, 



181. 



Lapham, J. A., on climate, 226. 

 Laplace, nebular hypothesis of, 41. 



&quot; on mean day, 403, 418. 

 Lapps, 363. 



Laramie limestone, 136. 

 Lartet on human remains, 355, 357, 3G6. 

 Lasalle, Illinois, mines at, 439. 

 Last term of organic existence, 373. 



&quot; man, 413. 

 Laurentiau system, 63, 338. 



&quot; estuary, 235. 



Laws of Nature, 31)5, 420. 

 Leaves of plauts,-arrangement of, 328. 

 Lectouia of the New World, 200. 



&quot; ancient, 369. 

 Leidy, Dr., on reptiles, 178, 190. 



&quot; &quot; &quot; mammals, 210. 

 Lemont, Illinois, old river bed at, 269. 

 Lepidodendron, 157. 



&quot; a synthetic type, 318. 



Lepidosteus, 166, 320. 



&quot; Huronensis, 120. 



&quot; oculatufs, 120. 



Lescarbault and intramercurial planet, 



44, 330. 



Lesquereux, L., on fossil vegetation, 254. 

 Level of lakes formerly higher, 241. 

 Leveling of the mountains, 397. 

 Liege, human remains at, 355. 

 Life, a ray of, 65. 



&quot; power of, to resist extremes, 



Life, even in Laurentian, 68. 



front of the procession of, 73, 315. 



various conditions of, 98. 



programme of, 102, 315. 

 Lifetime of a universe what is it ? 430. 

 Light, movements of, 421. 

 Lightnings in the primeval storm, 54. 

 Ligurian tribes, 363. 

 Lilies, Stone, 105. 

 Limestones of chemical origin, 58. 



&quot; recurrences of, 133. 



Limestone masses of N. America, 134,224 



&quot; trends of, 135. 

 Lindley on vitality of seeds, 260. 

 Lindsay on vitality of bulbs, 261. 

 Liugula, modern, 79. 

 Lintjula prima and antiqua, 79, 316. 

 Lithodo tmi.s, a stone-borer, 19. 

 Lithological recurrences, 132. 

 Lockport, geology of, 125. 

 Logan, Sir W. E., on ancient limestones, 



Logan, Sir W. E., on Laureutian and Hu- 

 ronian, 63. 



Logan, Sir W. E., on Carboniferous rep 

 tiles, 169. 



London Bridge, piles of, 256. 



London, Ontario, oil wells at, 278. 



Lookout Mountain, 342. 



Louisburg, change of level at, 22. 



Lover s Leap, Mackinac Island, 248. 



Lower Helderberg Group, 125. 



Luminosity the first manifestation, 38. 



Luxuriance of coal vegetation, 153, 156. 



Lyell, Sir Charles, 158. 



&quot; on Carboniferous rep 

 tiles, 169. 



Lyell, Sir Charles, on footprints, 182. 

 &quot; &quot; &quot; cretaceous pebbles, 



223. 



Lyell, Sir Charles, on buried timber, 259. 

 &quot; &quot; secular catastro 



phes, 390. 



Lyell, Sir Charles, on Eozoon, 435. 



Machinery of the heavens running down, 



Mackinac Island, 126, 165, 247, 248. 

 Macroural crustaceans, 326. 

 Madison, Indiana, geology of, 340. 

 Madler on firmameutal movements, 392, 



426. 



Madrepores, 327. 

 Mammals, advent of, 188. 

 &quot; reign of, 199. 

 &quot; cemeteries of, 204, 205. 

 Mammalian idea dominant, 318. 

 Mammoth, 239. 



&quot; preserved in ice, 263. 

 &quot; with primeval man, 354, 357. 

 &quot; restored, 359. 



&quot; delineated by primeval art 

 ists, 366. 



Mammoth vein of coal, 156. 

 Man, advent of, 239. 

 primeval, 350. 



and mastodon contemporary, 240. 

 rises above the wreck of matter, 431. 



