INDEX 



Peach, B. N. (Geological Survey), 294, 



342 



Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, 199, 260 

 Peel, Sir R., sounded as to becoming 



President of the Royal Society, 128 ; 



on Jermyn Street Museum, 143 ; at 



Geological Society, 144 

 Pembrokeshire, geology of, 43, 50, 231, 



232, 233, 234 

 Pentland, J. B., 146 



Hills, 320 



Pen-y-bont, 81 



Pen-y-gwryd, 150, 154 



Percy, Dr. John, 145, 186 



Permian breccias, investigation of, 198, 



219, 228, 229, 241, 362 

 Perth, 344 

 Petrography in the Geological Survey, 



343, 355 



Phillips, J., notice of, 18; employed 

 in Geological Survey, 43, 50, 63, 162 



J. A.', 129, 130, 176 



R. , Curator of Museum of 



Economic Geology, 41, 66 ; death 

 of, 185 

 - W., 58 



Physical Geology and Geography, by 

 A. C.Ramsay, 277, 3 1 1, 334, 344, 363 



Physiography, Ramsay's contributions 

 to, 358 



Playfair, John, his Illustrations of 

 Huttonian Theory, 116 



Playfair, Lord, an early friend of 

 Ramsay, 9 ; his reminiscences of Sir 

 Charles and Lady Lyell with Ramsay 

 in Arran, 14 ; with Ramsay in 

 London, 61, 62, 64, 77, 78, 144, 

 176 ; appointed chemist to Geo- 

 logical Survey, 66 ; with the sur- 

 veyors in Wales, 108 ; at the time 

 of the Chartist riot, 1 29 ; appointed 

 to School of Mines, 186 



Plynlimmon, 75 



Po, River, article by Ramsay on the, 323 



Pont de Gard, 353 



Ponteland, 303 



Porteous Mob, anecdote of, 3 



Portlock, J. E., 65 



Port Madoc, 133, 326, 329 



Portrush, 342 



Pre-Cambrian rocks of Anglesey, 154, 

 172, 191, 192, 207 



Preston, 305 



Prestwich, J., 78, 124, 144, 305, 311 



Privy Council, Committee on Educa- 

 tion, 208 



Professor, work of a, 117 

 Protichnites, reading of Logan's and 



Owen's papers on, 197 

 Pumpsaint, Ramsay stationed at, 76, 



235, 331 

 Punch on the quarrels of the geologists, 



283 

 Purbeck formation, Forbes' subdivisions 



of, 1 80 



Puy de Dome, 353 

 Pwlheli, 153 



RAIN, geologising in, 46, 105, 113, 151 

 Ramsay, A. C. Chap. I. 1814-1840. 

 Parentage, I ; brothers and sister, 

 3 ; birth, 4 ; childhood, 4 ; attends 

 Glasgow Grammar School, 5 ; first 

 reads Shakespeare, 6 ; loses his 

 father, 7 (see p. 257) ; goes into 

 business, 7, 257 ; edits a manu- 

 script journal, 8 ; enters into partner- 

 ship as a cloth-merchant, 9 ; in- 

 fluenced towards science by D. 

 Landsborough, 13 ; and by J. P. 

 Nichol, 14; makes the acquaintance 

 of Lyell, 15 ; geologically surveys 

 Arran, 17 ; first meets De la Beche, 

 Murchison, E. Forbes, etc., 18; reads 

 his first geological paper, 19 ; 

 misses the excursion to Arran, 20 ; 

 writes his volume on Arran, 21 ; 

 extracts from this volume, 22-25 : 

 leaves home to join Murchison, 26 ; 

 letter to his mother, 26 ; to his 

 brother William, 27 ; first visits 

 London, 28 ; is appointed to the 

 Geological Survey, 28 ; dines at 

 Geological Club, 30 ; joins the 

 Survey at Tenby, 33 (see pp. 1 76, 234) 

 Chap. II. 1841 - 1845. His 

 opinion of the early maps of the 

 Geological Survey, 39, 53 ; early 

 days in the Survey, 42, 49, 234 ; with 

 J. Phillips in South Wales, 43, 50 ; 

 first Report on Welsh Geology, 51 ; 

 first mapping of volcanic rocks, 51 ; 

 sings in cathedral choir at St. David's, 

 54, 234 ; musical talent of, 54 ; 

 sociality of, in South Wales, 55 ; finds 

 fossils in South Wales, 5 6 ; undertakes, 

 with E. Forbes, to prepare a new 

 edition of Conybeare and Phillips' 

 Geology, 58, 72 ; life in London, 61 ; 

 promoted to be Local Director, 61 ; 

 writes the essay on the " Denudation 

 of South Wales," 63 ; declines the 



