Index 



295 



the Geological Survey, 267 ; per- 

 sonal traits, 267 

 Murray, A., 270 



NEPTUNISTS, 117, 201 



Nicol, W., his prism, 276 ; invents 

 the process of cutting thin slices 

 of rocks for microscopic examina- 

 tion, 276, 286 



Nomenclature, origin of geological, 

 243 



Norway, von Buch's travels in, 146 



OCEAN, Werner's doctrine of an 



original universal, 114, 116, 117 

 Omalius d'Halloy, J. J. d', 221 



PALAEONTOLOGY, early beginnings of, 

 24-28, 220 ; rapid development of, 

 241 



Palassou, Abbe, early geological map 

 by, 23 



Palissy's views regarding fossil shells, 

 26 



Pallas, P. S., career and work of, 80, 

 285 ; Cuvier's Eloge of, 221 



Paris basin, Guettard's early obser- 

 vations in the, 19, 24 ; influence 

 of, on the rise of stratigraphical 

 geology, 208, 221 



Pascal, 37 



Pasumot, 59 



Pennant's Tour in Scotland, 55 



Petrography, early condition of, 91 ; 

 rapid growth of, in the latter half 

 of the nineteenth century, 271, 275, 

 286 



Phillips, John, 224 

 - W., 16 



Physical geography, early writings 

 on, 73 



Physiographical geology, early obser- 

 vations in, 28, 64 ; slow progress 

 of, 286 



Playfair, J., cited, 65, 151, 156, 159, 

 164, 183, 192, 193, 285; his 

 Illustrations of the Huttonian 

 Theory, 159, 166 ; on veins, 177 ; 

 on the origin of valleys, 180 ; on 

 glaciers, 181, 271 ; disproves the 

 alleged fossiliferous character of 

 basalt in Antrim, 194 ; on geo- 

 logical succession, 202 



Plutonists, 176 



Pocock, R., 54 



Pre-Cambrian rocks, 269 



Primitive rocks, 114, 121, 129, 130, 



245, 268 

 Puy de Dome, 37, 57 



RAIN, action of, 28 



Kamond, 138 



Eamsay, A. C., 181, 269, 282, 283,284 



Raspe on basalt, 78 



Rath, G. vom, 280 



Ray, John, 5, 34 



Rhinelaud, basalt of, 53, 54, 65 



Rhinoceros, fossil, of Siberia, 82 



Richardson, B., 230, 232 



W., 194 



Rivers, action of, 28 



Rochefoucault, Due de, 50, 51 



Rogers, H. D., 256 



Rom<; de Lisle, 55 



Rose, Gustav, 280 



Rosenbusch, Prof. H., 280 



Rouelle, 208 



Russia, exploration of, by Pallas, 79 



SAINTE-CLAIRE DEVILLE, C. J., 16 

 Saussure, H. B. de, 65 ; his career 

 and work, 84 ; his love of flowers, 

 85 ; his enthusiasm for the Alps, 

 85 ; his ideas of geological struc- 

 ture, 87, 89, 90 ; first uses the term 

 Geology, 88 ; on the use of fossils 

 in ascertaining the age of rocks, 90 ; 

 his experiments in the fusion of 

 rocks, 91 ; his views on granite, 

 175 ; Cuvier's jfiloge of, 85, 221 ; 

 referred to, 285 

 Saxony, basalt of, 53, 62, 65, 120, 



138, 145 

 Scandinavia, von Buch on elevation 



of, 146 



Scotland, basalt of, 54, 198 

 Scrope, G. P., 16 

 Sea, action of the, 28, 30 

 Sea-bottom, nature of the, 31 

 Sedgwick, A., cited, 230, 237, 247, 

 285 ; birth and education, 256 ; 

 elected Woodwardian Professor 

 256 ; his early Wernerianism, 257 

 conjoint work with Murchison,258 

 labours in the Lake District, 258 

 in Wales, 259 ; estrangement from 

 Murchison, 261 ; personal traits, 

 268 



