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INDEX 



Buckland, paramoudra, 136 ; flint, 



165, and Oxford, 243 

 Burckhardt, Jurassic zones, 274 

 Burnett, Thomas, 290 

 Bythoceras, 209 



CALAPPA, burrows of, 102 



Calumet and Hecla mine, U.S., 20 



Cambrian sediments, changes in thick- 

 ness, 41 



Carboniferous air-breathing shells, 197 



Caspian, 215 



Cassini, form of the earth, 45 



Catastrophic geology, 297 



Chaldean deluge, 31 



Chalk, rate of formation, 16 ; porosity 

 of, 151 



Chamisso, nature of atolls, 90 



Chapman, F., Foraminifera, Funafuti, 

 126 



Chytra, 210 



Clarke, Col., form of the earth, 46 



Climates and homotaxy, 268 ; ancient, 

 285 



Coccoliths, 137, 139 



Congeria, 205 



Consolidation of the earth, 8 



Contraction of cooling globe, 33 



Coral, limit of growth, 91, 129 



Cordylophora, 212 



Cosina beds, 203 



Cossman, Jurassic freshwater shells, 

 198 



Crambessa Tagi, 211 



Cretaceous of India, 278 



Cristatella miicedo, 188 



Cryptone, fauna of atoll beach, 112 



Cullis, Dr. C. G., Funafuti, 123 



Cutch, Jurassic zones, 274 



Cyclas, 181 



Cyclonic waves, 315 



DARWIN, C., 1 ; coral islands, 91-94; 

 letter to A. Agassiz, 99 ; love of 

 sport, 220 ; letter to Professor 

 Phillips, 251 



Darwin, George, 7, 39 ; stresses pro- 

 duced by weight of continents, 48 ; 

 radium, 63 



David, Prof. Edgeworth, successful 

 boring, 118, 122 ; talus growth, 128 ; 

 limit of coral growth, 129 



Davison, C., 33 level of no strain, 59 



Day, fishes of Great Britain, 172 



Deposition, rate of, 37 ; and sub- 

 sidence of sea floor, 39 



Devonian lakes, 195 



Diatoms, 161 



Diplograptus foliaceus, 282 



Dodecahedron, pentagonal, E. de 

 Beaumont, 56 



Dreissena, 181, 206 



Dytiscus, 181 



EARTH, constitution of interior, 7 ; 

 consolidation of, 8 ; rigidity of, 16 



Egypt, 25 ; does not possess a deluge 

 myth, 321 



Ellice islands, 99 



Energy of the earth in the past, 284 



England, section across, 261 



Ephippium of water-fleas, 191 



Ephydatiafluviatilis, 185 



Erech, 306 



Expansion of rocks near critical fusion- 

 point, 11, of basalt and diabase, 60 



Euplectella, 143 



Everett, Prof., geothermic gradient, 61 



Evolution of animal forms, time 

 required for, 28 



FASCINELLA, 203 



Faxon, Paleeomonetes, 194 



Field, Capt. Mostyn, II. N., Funafuti, 



117 

 Finckh, A. E., Funafuti, 122 ; limit of 



coral growth, 129 

 Fisher, Eev. 0., condition of no strain, 



59 



Fitzgerald, George F., 12 

 Flints, 131-165 ; mode of occurrence, 



135; forms of, 141; and sponges, 



