INDEX. 113 



Becquerel, M., his reduction of metallic 

 ores by electxo-cKemical apparatus, 

 i. 617. 



Berkley, Bishop, on sensible demon- 

 stration of the existence of an invi- 

 sible God, i. 199. 



Berthier, pyrogenous crystals made by, 

 i. 599. 



Bible, reveals nothing of physical sci- 

 ence, i. 14. 



Bilin, fossil infusoria found at, i. 610. 



Birds, extent of fossil remains of, i. 

 86; fossil footsteps of, in Connecti- 

 cut, ii. 39. 



Blainville, M., his memoir on belem- 

 nites, i.371; his reasoning respecting 

 belemnites confirmed, i. 375 ; his 

 proposed account of fossil mammalia 

 found near Simorre, i. 602. 



Blomfield, Bishop, on connection of 

 religion and science, i. 587. 



Bohemia, plants preserved in coal 

 mines of, i. 458. 



Bonn, brown coal formation near, i. 

 509. 



Botany, its importance to geology, i. 

 110. 



Boue, M., his map of Europe in ter- 

 tiary period, i. 77. 



Bothrodendron, character of, i. 475. 



Bowerbank, Mr., his fossil fruits from 

 the London clay, i. 614. 



Boyle, Mr., on distinct provinces of 

 natural and revealed religion,!. 589. 



Bradford, apiocrinites found at, i. 429. 



Branchipus, how allied to trilobites, i. 

 394. 



Braun, Professor, of Carlsruhe, his list 

 of the plants of (Eningen, i. 510, 

 et seq. 



Brentford, Artesian wells at, i. 564. 



Broderip, Mr., his observations on liv- 

 ing iguanus, i. 237, 242 ; on new 

 species of brachiopoda, i. 296 ; on 

 crustaceans from the lias at Lyme, 

 i. 389. 



Brongniart, M. Alexandre, his account 

 of the basin of Paris, i. 76 ; his his- 

 tory of trilobites, i. 391 ; on erect 

 position of trees in the coal formation 

 of St. Etienne, i. 471. 



Brongniart, M. Adoiphe, his divisions 

 ofsubmarine vegetation, i. 451 ; divi- 

 sions of the fossil equisetaceaj, i. 460 ; 

 classification of fossil ferns, i. 461 ; 

 observations on fossil coniferae, i. 

 484 ; on plants of the Gres bigarr6, 

 i. 490 ; on plants of the secondary 

 formations, i. 491;onsigillaria,i.618. 



G. II. 



Brora, coal in oolite formation at, i. 75. 

 491. 



Brougham, Lord, on religious end of 

 study of natural philosophy, i. 591. 



Brown coal, character and extent of i 

 508. 



Brown, Mr. Robert, on distribution of 

 living ferns, i. 463; discovery of 

 gymnospermous structure of conife- 

 rae and cycadea^,, i. 484 ; his section 

 of a stem of cycas revoluta, i. 497 ; 

 his discoveries of fossil spiral vessels', 

 i. 499, 614 ; name of podocarya sug- 

 gested by, i. 504 ; his discovery of 



• fossil spiral vessels and traces of ex- 

 travasated gum in fossil cycadites. 

 ii. 100. 



Bruckmann, M. Von, his description 

 and application of Artesian wells, i. 

 565, 567. 



Brunei, Mr. jun., his experiment in a 

 diving bell, i. 181. 



Brussels, fossil emys at, i. 258 



Biickeberg, coal in Wealden formation 

 at, i. 600. 



Buckingham, Duke of, plesiosaunis in 

 his collection, i. 203. 



Buddie, Mr., his observations on utility 

 of faults, i. 544 ; his deposit of plans 

 and sections of coal mines in the 

 museum at Newcastle, ii. 104. 



Bude, strata of drifted sand at, i. 127. 



Buds petrified on trunks of cycadites i. 

 500. 



Buenos Ayres, megatherium found 

 near, i. 142. 



Bufonites, teeth of pycnodonts, i. 281. 



Burchell, Mr., his observations on the 

 scales of serpents, i. 268. 



Burdie House, fossil fishes and plants 

 at, i. 275. 



Burnet, his opinion on the Mosaic cos- 

 mogony, i. 9. 



Caithness, fishes in slate of, i. 256. 



Calamite, gigantic size and character 

 of, i. 460. 



Calymene, i. 391. 



Canstadt, Artesian wells at, i. 567. 



Cardomom, fossil in L Sheppey, i. 

 519. 



Cardona, salt in cretaceous formation 

 near, i. 72. 



Carlsbad, living infusoria in waters of, 

 i. 610. 



Carnivora, numerous in pliocene strata, 

 i. 92. 



Carnivorous races, benefit of to herbi- 

 vorous, i. 130, 132. 



