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INDEX. 



Liebig's computation of carbon in 



plants, 133. 

 Liliaceae, 27. 



Limnoria terebrans in harbours, 36. 

 Lingula, 32, 212. 

 Lingula Zone of Wales, 70. 

 Linnaeus' classification of nature, 25. 

 essays in the Amoenitates Aca- 



demicae, 170. 



on Primitive Types, 195. 



Lizard (Gecko), sucker-feet, 41. 



Llandeilo formation, 72. 



Llandovery Rocks, 75. 



Lobster, bending tail of the, 34. 



Ludlow zone, 76. 



Lutraria digging into sand, 36. 



Lycopodiaceae, 27, 144. 



Lyell, Sir C., shell in fossil tree found 



by, 116. 



on Climate, 152. 



on the Germs of Life, 187. 



M. 



Malvern, antiquity of land, 168. 

 Mammalia, numerical distribution, 12. 



rearing their young, 30. 



Marine animals, changes with elapsed 



time, 84. 

 -^inver tebral life, successive systems, 



81. 

 invertebrata in Lower Palaeozoic 



Strata, table, 78. 

 Marsupialia fossil, 119. 

 Medusidae, 32. 

 Milne Edwards, his generalization of 



the Palaeozoic Corals, 86. 

 Moa of New Zealand, 118. 

 Modiolae traced in coral, 36. 

 Mole, claws of the, 43. 

 Mollusca, eye-spots, 10; description 



of, 28. 



Mollusca, shell-covered, 32. 

 Monkeys, remains of, 149. 

 Monocotyledones, 27. 

 Monomyaria, 94. 

 Morris, estimate of thickness of strata, 



52. 



Movements in air by animals, 37. 

 Murchison's Siluria, 71. 

 Musaceae, 144. 

 Mya digging into sand, 36. 

 Myriophyllum verticillatum, 20. 

 Mytilus, 32. 



N. 



Narbonne, early human remains at, 



48. 



Natural Selection, 200, 215, 216. 

 Nature, the expression of a Divine 



Idea, 3. 



the forces of, 5. 



the laws of, 5. 



Nautilus (Argonauta), 33. 



Niagara Falls, computation of time 



by recession of, 140. 

 Nipadaceae, 145. 

 Notonecta, motion of the, 34. 

 Nova Scotia, Sigillaria (fossil tree) 



found in, 116. 

 Nymphaea alba, 20. 



O. 



Oldhamia found at Bray, 70. 

 Olenus, 71. 

 Ostrich, the, 24. 



wing bones, 43. 



Otter, webbed feet of the, 34. 



P. 



Palinurus, flexible tail of, 35. 

 Palissy's observations, 175, 



