The Founders of Geology 



Chambers, R., 275 



Charpentier, J. de, 271 



J. F. W., publishes an early 



geological map in colours, 22 



Chaulnes, Due de, 49 



Childrey's Britannia Baconica, cited, 

 20 



Clerk, John, of Eldin, 155, 158, 183 



Clermont-Ferrand, 37, 56 



Columnar structure of basalt, 55, 56, 

 61 



Condorcet, cited, 12, 17, 44 



Conybeare, W., 16 



Cook, Captain J., 76, 79 



Cosmogonists, 7, 167 



Coupe, J. M., 211 



Cretaceous rocks, classification of, 

 221 



Crystallite, a name given by Hall to 

 the product resulting from the slow 

 cooling of artificially fused whin- 

 stone, 187 



Cuvier, cited, 15, 48, 49, 75, 76, 85, 

 104, 107, 134, 137, 175, 285, 286; 

 birth and education, 211 ; devotes 

 himself to science, 211 ; early 

 palseontological discoveries, 212 ; 

 enters the field of geology, 212, 213 ; 

 perpetual Secretary of the Institute 

 of France, 220 ; his Wernerianism, 

 175, 220 



D'ALEMBERT, 15, 50, 73 



Darwin, C., 275, 282 ; influence of 

 his Origin of Species on modern 

 geology, 283 



Daubeny, C., 16 



Defrance, J. L. M., 215 



Deiters, M., 280 



De la Beche, H., 247, 264 



DeLuc, J. A., 88, 165, 195 



Descartes, 7 



Desmarest, cited, 15, 39, 41, 56, 193, 

 208, 209, 285, 282; birth and 

 education of, 48 ; first scientific 

 essay of, 49 ; employed by the State 

 in industrial missions, 51 ; becomes 

 Inspector-General of the Manufac- 

 tures of France, 51 ; visits Auvergne, 

 52 ; his views on basalt, 57, 58, 61, 

 91, 121 ; on volcanic action, 62 ; 

 on the origin of valleys, 64 ; on 

 volcanic history, 67, 96 ; his 

 Geographic Physique, 73, 78 ; 



personal traits of, 76 ; his death, 

 77 ; his opinion of Hutton, 164 



Devonian system, first establishment 

 of, 263, 266 



Diderot, 15, 73 



Doin, M., 74 



Dolomieu, D. de, 78, 187, 198 



Dufrenoy, P. A., 255 



Dykes, 174, 187 



EARTHQUAKES, Fuchsel on influence 

 of, 100 



Eaton, A., 269 



Edinburgh, intellectual society of, in 

 the second half of last century, 

 154 ; favourable geological position 

 of, 157, 194 ; foundation of Royal 

 Society of, 158 ; a school of geology 

 established at, 191 ; the Wer- 

 nerian Society established at, 193 



Edinburgh Review, 116, 131, 132, 

 194 



Elephant, fossil, 81, 212 



^lie de Beaumont, L., 255 



Encyclopedic of Diderot and D'Alem- 

 bert, 15, 73 



England, early miueralogical mapping 

 of, by Guettard, 20 



and France once united, 50 



rise of stratigraphical geology 



in, 204, 222 



Erzgebirge, 97 



Escher von der Linth, A., 92 



Etna, lavas of, compared with the 

 whinstones of Scotland, 187 



Evolutionists, 288 



FAREY, J., 237 



Faujas de St. Fond, B., 78, 193, 198 



Favre, A., 92 



Featherstonhaugh, G. W., 256 



Ferguson, Adam, 155 



Ferry, M., 74 



Fingal's Cave, 55 



Fitton, W. H., 132, 194, 236, 239 



Fleming, John, 196 



Flotz-gebirge, term proposed by Leh- 



mann, 97 ; adopted by Werner, 



114, 121, 125, 129, 130, 245 ; 



disuse of the term, 244 

 Foley, S., 54 

 Forbes, D., 280 

 Formations, geological, first recognized 



by Fuchsel, 100 ; arranged by Wer- 



