INDEX 



ABBERLEY HILLS, 219 



Aberaeron, 73, 74, 75, 81 



Abergwailas, 81 



Aberpwl, 232 



Aberystwith, 73, 74, 77, 8 1 



^Eggischorn, 254, 267, 273 



Africa, Ramsay's excursion into, 338 



Agassiz, L., notice of, 18 ; visited by 

 Ramsay, 252 



Agronomical map of British Isles, 293 



Airy, G. B., 159 



Aix les Bains, 345 



Albert, Prince, 159, 175, 185 



Aletsch glacier, 255, 267, 273 



Alf, 263 



Alps, Ramsay's visits to the, 198, 202, 

 253, 266, 272, 327, 352; conse- 

 quences of upheaval of, 360 



Altered rocks, Ramsay's views regard- 

 ing, 52, 83, 109, 154, 172, 191, 

 207, 286, 326 



American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, 252 



Amlwch, 171, 191 



Andersonian University of Glasgow, 



17 

 Anglesey, 105, 107, 154, 164, 170, 



172, 190, 191, 192, 207, 287, 288, 



300, 326, 334 

 Ansted, D. T., 57, 78 

 Antiquities, Ramsay's love of, 1 1 1, 188, 



246, 289, 301, 319, 353 

 Antrim, 315, 318 

 Arans, geology of the, 79, 82, 165, 



329 



Arbroath, 344 

 Arenig, geology of, 79, 204 

 Arenig group, 332, 333, 334, 336, 338 

 Argyll, Duke of, 270 

 Armagh, 315, 320 



Arran, Isle of, as a summer resort, 10 ; 

 attractive geology of, 12 ; surveyed 

 and modelled by Ramsay, 16, 17 ; 

 volume on, by Ramsay, 21, 29, 239; 

 descriptions of, 22-25 '> revisited, 74 



Ash, volcanic, 82, 83 



Atmospheric disintegration, 199 



Auchendrane Castle (E. Cathcart), 248, 

 294 



Austen, see Godwin-Austen 



Auvergne, 353 



Aveline, W. T., appointed to Geologi- 

 cal Survey, 43, 66 ; letters to, 77, 

 82, 83, 126, 146, 149, 152, 154, 

 158, 162, 167, 211, 213, 218, 231, 

 232; 234; at work in Wales, 79, 

 80, 83, 100, 153, 158, 204, 205, 

 234; paper at Geological Society, 

 124; at the annual Survey dinners, 

 175 ; position on staff of Survey in 

 1854, 212 ; revision work of, in 

 North Wales, 230; attends confer- 

 ence in Scotland, 342 



Ayrshire, coast-scenery of, 4 ; Ramsay's 

 visits to, 248 ; survey of, 315 



BAILY, W. H., 66, 116, 129, 142, 



160, 175, 212 

 Bala, geology of, 80, 82, 83, 105, 125, 



213, 214 

 Bala rocks, equivalents of Caradoc 



series, 230 ; unconformability of, 308 

 Ball, J., 271 



Bangor, 152, 154, 171, 174, 192, 338 

 Bantry, 218 

 Barlow, Dr., 146 

 j Barmouth, 82 

 Barnsley, 303 

 Barry, Sir Charles, 40 

 Basle, 263, 327 



