294 



The Founders of Geology 



Homes, M., 149 



Humboldt, A. von, 137, 141, 142 



Hunt, T. Sterry, 270 



Huot, J. J. N., 74 



Huronian, origin of term, 270 



Button, James, cited, 65, 93, 186, 

 187, 189, 190, 193, 285, 286; 

 birth and education, 150 ; takes 

 the degree of M.D., 152 ; be- 

 comes a farmer, 152 ; devotes him- 

 self to a scientific life, 1 54 ; first pub- 

 lication of his Theory of the Earth, 

 158, 163 ; views on granite, 159 ; 

 personal traits, 162 ; death, 163 ; 

 criticised by Desmarest, 164 ; his 

 doctrines, 167 ; proclaims that the 

 past must be interpreted by the 

 present, 167 ; on the origin of 

 stratified rocks, 168 ; on the con- 

 solidation of sediments, 169 ; on 

 the influence of compression, 170 ; 

 on disturbance of the earth's crust, 

 170 ; on the earth's internal tem- 

 perature, 172 ; on unstratified 

 rocks, 173 ; oh dykes and vol- 

 canoes, 176 ; on veins, 176 ; fore- 

 shadows Lyell's doctrine of meta- 

 morphism, 178 ; on the degradation 

 of the land, 179, 202 ; insists that 

 every principle adopted must be 

 based on observation, 182 ; repug- 

 nance to experiment in geological 

 inquiry, 185 ; views regarding 

 geological succession, 202 



ITALY, volcanic geology of, 60, 142, 

 187, 198, 199 



JAMESON, R., cited, 111, 113, 117, 

 118, 124, 125, 126, 132, 245 ; 

 Professor in the University of 

 Edinburgh, 192 ; founds the Wer- 

 nerian Society, 193 



Jenzsch, G-., 280 



Jukes, J. B., 181 



Jussieu, the brothers, 13 



KAESTEN, D. L. G., 137 



Keferstein, C., 101, 121, 244 

 Kennedy, R., 189 

 Kirwan, R., 165, 195 



LAMANON, P., 209, 218 



Laurentian, origin of term, 270 



Lava, Hall's experiments on the 

 fusion of, 189 



Lavoisier, early mineralogical surveys 

 by, 23 ; his stratigraphical work 

 in the Paris basin, 210 



Lecoq's ,Epoques Gtologiques de 

 I'Auvergne, 16 



Lehmann, J. G., 96, 128, 131, 203 



Leibnitz, cosmogony of, 7, 118 



Lhuyd on trilobites, 25 



Linnaeus, 91 



Lister, M., 5, 19 



Logan, W. E., 269, 285 



Lonsdale, W., 265 



Lyell, Charles, cited, 5, 16, 65, 181, 

 246, 273, 285 ; his influence on 

 the progress of geology, 281 ; his 

 Principles, 281 ; his classification 

 of the Tertiary formations, 282 



MACLURE, W., 269 



Malesherbes, 35, 51 



Maps, earliest geological, 18-23, 65 ; 

 Smith's, of England, 233 ; Green - 

 ough's, of England, 235 



Merian, P., 92 



Metamorphism, doctrine of, first in- 

 dicated by Hutton, 178 



Michel Levy, M. A., 280 



Michell, J., 222, 285 



Microscope, application of, in petro- 

 graphy, 276-280 



Mineralogy, Werner's influence on, 

 106, 110 



Molyneux, T., 54 



Monnet and Guettard's early minera- 

 logical maps, 23 



Mont Dore, volcanic geology of, 38, 

 58 



Montlosier, F. D. R. de, 65, 78, 

 143 



Moro, L., 5, 34, 120 



Mountains, Pallas on formation of, 

 82 ; rise of the appreciation of, 

 84 ; Lehmann on, 97 ; Werner on, 

 115 ; von Buch on, 147 ; Michell 

 on, 223 



Murchison, R. I., 25, 65, 285 ; birth 

 and education, 247 ; begins his 

 geological career, 248 ; lays the 

 foundation of his Silurian System, 

 251 ; disagreement with Sedgwick, 

 261 ; becomes Director-General of 



