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INDEX. 



Odier, M., his discovery of chitine, or 

 elytrine, in wings of insects, i. 41 1. 



Oeland, orthoceratites in limestone of, 

 i. 364 ; lituite found in the same, i. 

 365. 



Oeningen, plants of, 510, etseq. ; fossil 

 fishes of, i, 266, 285 ; description of 

 fossil plants at, by Professor Braun, i. 

 511 — 5 1 4 ; plants in brown coal for- 

 mation at, i. 510 ; fossil salamander 

 of, i. 514. 



Ogyges, i. 391. 



Onchus, i. 289. 



Opal from Bilin, and other places, con- 

 tains infusoria, i. 612. 



Opossum, remains of, in secondary and 

 tertiary strata, i. 72 ; bones of, in 

 oolite at Stonesfield, i. 250. 



Organic remains, best summaries of, i. 

 38 ; argument from absence of, i. 53 ; 

 general history of, i. 106 ; afford evi- 

 dence of design, i. 107 ; important 

 inferences from, i. 109; study of, 

 indispensable to geology, i. Ill ; 

 successive stages of deposition, i. 

 113; best groundwork of geological 

 divisions, i. 113 ; supply deficient 

 links in the existing animal kingdom, 

 i.ll4. 



Orodus, i. 288. 



Ornithichnites, in new red sandstone of 

 Connecticut, ii. 39. 



Ornithorhynchus, sternal apparatus like 

 that of ichthyosaurus, i. 181, 185 ; 

 Mr. R. Owen's papers on, i. 181. 



Orthoceratite, character and extent of, 

 i. 363. 



Osseus breccia, in fisures of limestone, 

 i.94. 



Osier, Mr., on proboscis of buccinum, 

 i. 298. 



Owen, Mr., on peculiarities of marsu- 

 pialia, i. 73 ; on comparative organi- 

 zation of ornithorhynchus and rep- 

 tiles, i. 181 ; on bones of land tor- 

 toises, i. 235 ; on nautilus pompilius. 

 i. 315, 322, 328, 329, 332. 



Pachydermala, existing genera of, in 



pliocene strata, i. 92. 

 Pain, aggregate of, diminished by the 



agency of carnivora, i. 129. 

 Palaeotherium, remains of in Calcaire 



Grossier, i. 80 ; character and place 



of, i. 81. 

 Paley, his notice of spiral intestine of 



shark, i. 196 ; defect arising from his 



want of knowledge in geology, i. 



572 ; his argument for the unity of 

 the deity, i. 583. 



Palms, in brown coal of Germany, i. 

 509, 512; geological extentof,i.513, 

 514, 515 ; number and distribution 

 of existing and fossil species, i. 515 ; 

 fossil trunks of, i. 515, 516 ; leaves, 

 localities and species of, i. 517; lo- 

 calities of fossil fruits of, i. 518. 



Pampas, megatherium found in, ii. 20. 



Pandanese, character and extent of re- 

 cent species, i. 503 ; fossil fruit of, 

 in inferior oolite, i. 504 ; functions 

 of, 505. 



Pandanus, fruit of recent species, i. 

 504, 505. 



Pandanocarpum, in tertiary formation, 

 i. 507. 



Pangolin, armed with horny scales, i. 

 162. 



Pander, his description of megatherium, 

 i. 142. 



Paradoxus, i. 391. 



Paraguay, megatherium found in, i. 

 161. 



Parish, Woodbine, esq., his discovery of 

 megatherium, i. 143, 161. 



Parkinson, Mr., his theory respecting 

 chambers of nautilus, i. 331 ; his 

 observations on the lily encrinite, i. 

 422 ; his description of the fossil 

 fruits of Sheppey, i. 518. 



Parry, Capt., on the long preservation 

 of human footsteps, i. 262. 



Patterson, Mr., on artificial crystals of 

 galena, i. 551. 



Peat bogs, local formations of, ii. 11. 



Pens, recent and fossil of loligo, i. 305, 

 306 ; structure of fossil described, i. 

 308,309. 



Pentacriuite, character and habit of 

 living species, i. 433 ; Briarean, 

 described, i. 434 ; vertebral column 

 of, i. 435 ; attached to lignite at 

 Lyme, i. 437 ; side arms, i. 438 ; 

 stomach, of, i. 439 ; body, arms, and 

 fingers of, i. 440 ; number of bones 

 prodigious, 441 ; concluding consi- 

 derations on, i. 441. 



Perfection consists in adaptation of or- 

 ganization to the functions of the spe- 

 cies, i. 107. 



Pericardial fluid, its mode of action, i. 

 326, 332. 



Perpignan, Artesian wells in basin of, 

 i.566. 



Perranzabulo, village buried by sand 

 flood, i. 127. 



