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INDEX. 



Nummulitic formation, i. 264. 

 fossils, i. 266. 



Oak found in the lignite, ii. 160. 



Oaks, Miocene, i. 343. 



Oceanic deposits increased by plants and 



animals, i. 112. 



zones, i. 111. 



Odinland, i. 168. 

 Odontopteris, i. 10, 13, 17. 

 (Eningen, Compositae from, i. 352. 



, dragonflies of, ii. 24. 



, dung-beetles of, ii. 17. 



, fish-fauna of, ii. 57, 59. 



in Miocene times, ii. 118. 



, mollen-stone of, ii. 122. 



, number of species of plants and 



animals discovered at, up to 1865, ii. 



124. 



, spiders of, ii. 11. 



, volcanic eruption near, i. 303. 



CEningian insect-fauna compared with 



that now existing, ii. 17. 



stage, i. 294. 



Oidium Tuckeri, i. 21. 

 Oligostegina laevigata, i. 206. 

 Oliver, Prof., ii. 226. 

 Oolite or roestone, i. 159. 



, Great, i. 159. 



, lower ferruginous, i. 159. 



Ooster, W. A., i. 183. 



Opalinus-clays, i. 158. 



Ophioderma, i. 71, 72. 



Ophiurida, Liassic, i. 72. 



Opsipedon gracilis, i. 77. 



Orbit, changes in the earth's, ii. 270. 



Orbitolina lenticularis, i. 213. 



Organic life commences with minute 



structures, i. 24. 



life in the Glacial epoch, ii. 204. 



nature, ii. 274. 



remains found in the Matt slates, 



i. 239. 

 Organisms, Prof. Ehrenberg on marine 



microscopic, i. 109. 

 visible in See wen limestone, i. 



204. 



Organization, progress in, ii. 287. 

 Origin of Molasse and marls in firm sand 



and mud, i. 305. 



of species, on the, ii. 280. 



Ornat us-marls, i. 160. 

 Orographic lakes, ii. 244. 

 Orotava, the dragon-tree of, ii. 279. 

 Orthoptera, Liassic, i. 82. 



, Miocene, ii. 20. 



Osmunda Heeri, i. 323. 

 Osseous fishes, Miocene, ii. 106. 

 Ostracodes, Miocene, ii. 5. 

 Otters, Miocene, ii. 80. 

 Oysters, Miocene, ii. 89, 99. 



Pachydermata, Eocene, i. 275. 



, Miocene, ii. 72. 



Palaeorhynchum glaronense, i. 243. 

 Palaeotherium magnum, i. 276. 



, Miocene, ii. 72. 

 Palaeozoic strata, early, ii. 233. 

 Palms, Miocene, i. 334. 



of Switzerland restored from their 



leaves, i. 335. 

 Paludina, ii. 5. 

 Panchlora Maderae, i. 20. 

 Paper-coals or lignites of Diirnten, i. 30; 



ii. 148, 200. 



Papilionaceas, Miocene, i. 314, 364. 

 Paris basin, analogy between the mam- 

 malian fauna of the Swiss Jura and 



that of the, i. 280. 

 Partnach shales, i. 59. 

 Pea-ore, i. 271. 



pits in the Bernese Jura, i. 273. 



Pearl-mussels, Miocene, ii. 100. 

 Pearly Nautili, Cretaceous, i. 217. 

 Peat-bogs of Gonten and Oberburgen, i. 



26. 

 Peat, causes of, i. 29. 



, formation of, i. 25. 

 Peat-mosses, Miocene, i. 300. 

 the resources of coal-deposits, i. 



24. 

 Pebble-beds, section of the paper-coal 



deposit and, at Diirnten, ii. 150. 

 Pecopteris, i. 10, 13, 14, 48, 53, 54. 

 Pecten, i. 74, 75. 

 Pectinacea, Miocene, ii. 99. 

 Peltidae, Miocene, ii. 39. 

 Pemphix Sueurii, i. 43. 

 Penaeus Kasicus, i. 77. 

 Pennino-Oarnic island, i. 296. 

 Pentacrinus angulatus, i. 70. 

 Pentatomidas, Miocene, ii. 48. 

 Perch, Miocene, ii. 57, 61. 

 Percoidei, Eocene, i. 244. 

 Permian formation, i. 37. 

 Peronospora infestans, i. 21. 

 Petroleum in the Lias marls, i. 101. 

 Pfaffikon lake, i. 28. 

 Phsenogamous plants, i. 312. 

 Phanerogamia, Carboniferous, i. 4. 

 Phenomena, glacial, in Scandinavia, ii. 



198. 

 , , of the southern slope of the 



Alps, ii. 196. 



Phoenicites spectabilis, i. 337. 

 Pholadida, Miocene, ii. 1 03. 

 Pholidophorus, i. 78, 79. 

 Phryganidaa, Miocene, ii. 25. 

 Physopoda, Miocene, ii. 22. 

 Phytophaga, Miocene, ii. 46. 

 Piassava palm of Brazil, i. 337. 

 Pictet, Prof. F. J., i. 183, 192, 274. 

 and Humbert, MM., ii. 61. 



