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INDEX. 



Architecture, geology applied to, 12. 



Arctic climate of a part of the ter- 

 tiary period, 61. 



Arduino classifies rocks as primary, 

 secondary, and tertiary, 33. 



Arenaceous deposits, 134. 



Arges, 263. 



Argillaceous deposits, 134. 



Armadillo, fossil, 334. 



Arrangement of deposits, 1 13, 146 ; 

 illustration, 143 ; of strata, 114 ; 

 order never inverted, 59. 



Artesian wells, 10 ; illustration, 11 ; 

 depth of various, 1 1. 



Articulata, 257. 



Asaphidse, 262. 



Asaphus, 262. 



Astacus, 265, 422. 



Vectensis (figure), 265. 

 Astarte plana (figure), 357. 

 Asteriadae, 226. 



Asteridce, 226. 



Asterodenus, 276. 



Asterophyllites, 1 92. 



foliosa (figure), 192. 



Astrea, 412, 41.0. 



Astronomy, antiquity of the earth 

 proved by, 52. 



Atherfield, greensand strata, fossils 

 from, 385388. 



Atmospheric agency, 349. 



Auchenia, 322. 



glama (figure), 323. 



Augustin, St., notice of fossil shells 

 by, 22. 



Aura, 264. 



Auvergne, dormant volcanoes of, 372; 

 la Limague, 373 ; indusial lime- 

 stone, 375. 



Avicula, 399, 419,429. 



longicostata (figure), 237. 



B. 



BACILLARID.E, 220. 

 Badger, fossil, 338. 

 Baleena, 317. 

 Balsenidaj, 317. 

 Baleenodon, 317. 

 Balsenoptera, 317. 



Balantidee, 259. 

 Balanus, 368. 



Baldassari establishes several im- 

 portant geological principles, 33. 

 Barrier reefs of coral, their vast 



extent, 217. 

 Barton series, 368. 

 Basalt, 123; experiment of Gregory 



Watt, as to its formation, 124. 

 Basilosaurus, former appellation of 



the zeuglodon, 318. 

 Basin, Hampshire, 362, 365 ; Isle of 



Wight, 362, 365 ; London, 360 ; 



Paris, 369. 



Batrachia, 303. 



i Batrachius, 306. 



i Bats, fossil, 337. 



Beads, St. Cuthbert's, fragments of 



crinoidea, so called, 24. 

 Bears, fossil, 338. 

 i Belemnitidse, 254, 384. 

 ' Bellenurus, 260. 

 Bergmehl, used as food, 221. 

 Bermudas, limestone of, 383 ; the 



group considered one mass of 



animal remains, 383. 

 Betula, 195. 

 Bimana, 341. 

 Birds, general characters, 307 ; 



divisions, 309 ; footsteps of, in 



the new red sandstone, 309. 

 Bivalved shells, 241. 

 Blaculia, 264. 

 Blapsida;, 269, 413. 

 Blatlina, 268. 

 Blood, fancied showers of, explained, 



22. 



Blowpipe, use of the, 102 ; illustra- 

 tions, 104, 105. 



Boccaccio, a geological observer, 28. 

 Bolca, Monte, strata and organic 



remains of, 371. 

 Bolina, 264. 

 Bombur, 264. 

 Bones, measurement of the cells of, 



271 ; human, found only in 



recent deposits, 341. 

 Boniface's, St., pennies, legend of, 24. 

 Bos, 320. 

 Bos scoticus (figure), 319. 



