INDEX. 



Glacial furrows, 43. 



Glacial theory of M. Agassiz, 43. 



Glossary of scientific terms, 477. 



Glossotherium, 333. 



Glossopteris Phillipsii, 183. 



Glyphaea, 264. 



Glyptodon, 334. 



Gnathosaurus, 295. 



Gneiss, 127 ; localities, 128. 

 system, the, 461. 



Goatsucker, fossil, 309. 



Gods and giants, fables of the 

 contests of the, founded on the 

 occurrence of fossil remains of 

 the elephant, &c., in superficial 

 deposits, 25. 



Gb'ppert, Professor, experiments by, 

 on the vegetable origin of coal, 

 437. 



Gompholis, 295, 40 3. 



Goniatites, 448. 



Granite, 121; its varieties, 121, 464; 

 localities, 122 ; theory of its 

 formation, 465. 



Grant, Professor, -on the Gastero- 

 poda, 246 ; on the Conchifera,236. 



Grapsidte, 265. 



Great Britain, geological deposits in, 

 an epitome of those of the whole 

 world, 119, 124 ; coal-fields of, 

 434 ; position of many of the 

 principal cities, 5 ; extinct animals 

 of, 327, 328 ; geological section, 

 348, 367, 381, 395398, 401. 



Greensand, lower, 379. 



upper, 380. 



strata of Atherfield, 385 ; 

 fossils from (figures), 385, 387, 

 388. 



Greenstone, 122 ; head of Rameses, 

 in the British Museum, 123. 



Groups and periods, 135. 



Gryllotalpa, 269. 



Gryllus, 269. 



Gryphsea, 419. 



Gryphsea virgula, 413. 



Guadeloupe, human skeletons im- 

 bedded in the limestone of, 351. 



Guettard, on the dormant volcanoes 

 of central France, 372. 



Guinea-fowls, fossil, 31 0. 

 Gymnosperms, phanerogamic, 191. 

 Gypsum quarries of Montmartre, 

 fossils procured from, 372. 



H. 



HALI^TUS, 309. 



Haley ornis, 310. 



Halicora, 317. 



Hall, Sir James, experiments by, 



regarding stratification (illustra- 

 tions), 111, 112. 

 Halmaturus, 316. 

 Halycina, 260. 

 Hammers, geological, 473. 

 Hampshire basin, 362. 

 Harbour and river beds choked up 



with infusoria, 222. 

 Harmony of science with revelation, 



48. 



Harpalidee, 269. 

 Harpes, 263. 

 Harpesidse, 262. 



Haiiy's system of crystallisation, 77. 

 Hawkshaw, discovery of erect trees 



in the coal formation, by. 42, 440, 



443. 



Health, geology in relation to, 13. 

 Heat, internal, of the globe, 57. 

 Hefriga, 264. 

 Hem'eroboides, 268. 

 Hemicidaris, 399. 

 Hemiptera, 267. 



Herodotus, geological views of, 18. 

 Herschel, Sir John, the nebular 



theory of, 55. 

 Heterocercal tail (illustration), 286, 



432. 



Heterophlebia, 268. 

 Hilda, St., legend of, 23; modern 



imposture in connection with, 23. 

 Hippopotamus, fossil, 327; teeth of 



(illustration), 327. 

 Hippotherium, 324. 

 Hirundo, 309. 

 Homalonotus, 262. 

 Homalonotus delphinocephalus 



(figure), 262. 



