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INDEX 



KELVIN, Lord, age of the earth, 9, 16, 



18, 20, 64 



Kennel, J. von, 210, 216 

 Kew, dispersal of shells, 184 

 Kidd, Dr., 242 

 King, Clarence, 18 

 Klement, on flint, 163, 165 

 Koken, 288 



LAGOON deposits, Funafuti, 131 



Land of coral island, mode of forma- 

 tion, 113 



Lane, A. C., 30 



Langenbeck, coral reefs, 96 



Lapparent de, chart of Cambrian 

 Europe, 41, 288 



Lapworth, graptolite zones, 275; dis- 

 persal of graptolites, 281 



Laramie lake, 201 



Lavis, Johnston, Dr., 73 



Levantine beds, 206 



Level of no strain, 33 



Levy, Michel, tetrahedral form of 

 earth, 55 ; on flint, 164 



Liebenow, G.,63 



Limnocnida, 210 



Limnotrochus, 21 



Limpet, freshwater (Ancylus), 208 



Lingula, 26, 218 



Lipari islands, 65-83 



Lisbon, earthquake, 314 



Lithoglyphus, 205 



Llwyd, 240 



Lohmann, coccoliths, 138 



Lyell, 2 ; on chalk, 158, 243, 249 



McGee, Gulf of Mexico, 37 

 Mangrove swamp, Funafuti, 107 

 Marr, J. E., graptolite zones, 275 ; 



homotaxis, 276 

 Martens, von, climate, 173 

 Maxwell, Walter, 22 

 Meachem, geothermic gradient, 62 

 Megascleres, 146 

 Melaniidse, 198 

 Melanopsidee, 206 



Meridional continental ring, 51 



Mesopotamia, 303 



Meteorites, 7, 8 



Meyer, P., Palseomonetes, 193 



Microscleres, 146 



Milne, Prof., rigidity of the earth, 17 



Mineral characters of flint, 163 



Mississippi delta, 38 



Moebius, brackish water fauna, 208 



Mojsisoviks, von, on Tyrol, 131 



Moon, origin of, 7 ; primitive volcanic 



action, 8 



Moore, C., Lias freshwater shells, 198 

 Moore, J.E. S., Tanganyika, 208 

 Moseley, Prof., coral sand, 103 

 Mountain chains, formation of, 31-36 

 Miiller, Fritz, Peneus, 194 

 Munier-Chalmers, on flint, 164 

 Murray, Sir J., 23 ; coral atolls, 85 



NARLIAN, Vulcano, 68 



Nassopsis, 209 



Nauplius, 194 



Nautilus, 280 



Neumayr, permanence of oceans, 97 ; 



Paludina, 207 ; chart of Jurassic 



seas, 288 

 Newton, Sir Isaac, form of the earth, 



45, 46 



Niagara limestone, 265 

 Nicholson, H. A., graptolite zones, 



275 



Nizir mountains, 313 

 Norway, stones from, found on the 



east coast of England, 244 

 Novaculina gangeticus, 175 



OBSTACLES to migration from the sea, 



171, 173, 177 

 Ocean of molten rock, 6 

 Ocean, salt in, 21, 171 

 Ocean basins, permanence of, 97 

 Ogilvie, Miss (Mrs. Gordon), on Tyrol, 



131 

 Opal, 143, replaced by carbonate of 



lime, 145 



