INDEX. 



517 



Sponges from St. Aclieul, 119 



Spontaneous generation, 391 



Spratt, Captain, on cave in Malta, 438 



on change of level in Crete, 178 

 Spring, Dr., 80 

 Squier and Davis, 39 

 Stalactite, Liebig on, 71 

 Stalactite in caves, 71 

 Stariug's geological map of Holland, 147 

 Steenstrup on age of peat, 17 



on fossils in peat, 9 



on Icelandic fossil plants, 238 

 Stereognathus ooliticus, 401 

 Stockaded islands in Ireland, 30 

 Stone, age of, 10 



and bronze, ages of, 369 

 Stonesfield oolite, fossil mammalia of, 



401 

 Strathmore, 246 



Stuttgart,fossil mammiferof triasat,401 

 Striated glacial pebbles and blocks, 304 

 Submergence of land, 276, 278 



of land in glacial i^eriod, 276, 

 278, 285 



of North Wales, 267 



of Scotland, 243 



of Wales, 285 

 Subsidence of British Isles, 278 



of land, 288 

 Successive changes.time required for,284 

 Suffolk tertiaries or crags, 208 

 Sumner's Records of Creation, 481, 496 

 Sunderbunds, 374 



Superficial traces of glaciers and ice- 

 bergs, 230 

 Sussex erratics, 281 

 Sus scrofa palustris, 25 

 Swedish raised beaches, 57 

 Swiss extinct glaciers, 290 



lake-dwellings, 17, 373 

 Systems of classification, 473 

 Syria, cold period in, 323 



TABULAE, view of strata, 7 

 Taxodium distichum, 43 

 Tay, estuary of, 54 

 Tertiary strata, classification of, 3 

 Thames alluvium, 154 



valley, fluviatile deposits of, 159 



VEG 



Thebes, 381 



antiquity of, 382 

 Theory of progression, 395, 397, 398, 404 



objections to, 405, 472 

 Thothmcs, Egyptian king, 37 

 Tiedemann on negro's brain, 481 



on brain of ape, 489 

 Till in Norfolk, 219 

 Time required for changes of gLacial 



period, 284 

 Tiniere, cone of, 321 



Morlot on, 27 

 Torquay, cave near, 96 



Elephas primigenius at, 371 

 Tournal, M., 59 

 Transmutation theory, 424, 471 



arguments for and against, 445- 

 448 

 Trias of Austrian Alps, 449 



of Stuttgart, 401 

 Trimmer on Moel Tryfane, 267 

 Trimmer's maps of glacial period, 162, 



273 

 Tryon on lake-habitations, 20 



TTDDEVALLA, 67 



^ Unger on Atlantic continent, 440 



on miocene plants, 432 

 Unio littoralis (fig. 22), 158 

 Unity of origin of man, 387 



of human races, 386 



species, Quatrefages on, 495 

 Upheaval and subsidence, causes of, 288, 



in Scotland, 47 



in AVales, 282 



of land at North Cape, 58 

 rate of, 58, 178 

 Upsala erratics, 240 

 Ursus Arctos, 22, 109 



spelseus, 101 

 Utznach near Zurich, lignite of, 314 



VANESSA atalanta, 434 

 Variation, 407, 414 

 Variation and natural selection, 469 



wide range of, 429 

 Varieties, incipient species, 416 

 Vegetable kingdom, mutability in, 418 



