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INDEX. 



Paris, Eocenes of, 205, 227. 

 Peach, Mr. B. N., 15, 21, 34, 37, 



67. 

 Pebble Beds, 3. 



of Trias, 119, 129. 



of Eocene, 201, 218. 



Pennine chain, 81, 106, 108, 309. 

 Permian system, 102. 

 Permanence of continents, &c., 



324. 



Phillips, Mr. J. A., 4, 119. 

 Plateaux gravels, 268. 

 Pleistocene epoch, 261. 



geography, 291, 320. 

 Pliocene epoch, 236. 



geography, 248, 318. 



Portraine, rocks of, 35. 

 Portland Beds, 142. 



epoch, geography of, 159, 312. 



Post-glacial deposits, 261, 264. 

 Pourtales, Mons., 328. 

 Prestwich, Professor, 195, 196, 204, 



207, 218, 220, 221, 224, 227, 



236, 243, 255, 259, 323, 333. 

 Purbeck Beds, 144. 

 geography, 160. 



R. 



Raised beaches, 268, 275, 302. 

 Ramsay, Sir A., 26, 46, 59, 112, 



127, 128, 148, 265. 

 Reade, Mr. T. M., 265, 268, 274. 

 Reading Beds, 200, 218. 

 Red Chalk, 171. 

 Red Crag, 242, 255. 

 Reid, Mr. Clement, 212, 237, 242, 



245, 248, 250, 259, 266, 268, 286. 

 Rhsetic Beds, 133, 146. 

 Richmond, boring at, 123, 140, 



169, 198. 



Ricketts, Dr. C., 215. 

 River-gravels, 264, 271, 291, 293. 

 Rupelien, 213. 



S. 



Sables de Cuise, 205. 



Saffron Walden, boring at, 169. 



Sandstones, 3. 



Scandinavia, Cambrian of, 22, 23, 



24. 



Carboniferous of, 85. 



Scotland, Cambrian of, 21. 



Carboniferous of, 70, 82. 



Chalk of, 177, 178. 



Eocene of, 209, 216. 



Glacial beds of, 262. 



Lias of, 136. 



Oolites of, 140. 



Ordovician of, 32. 



Old Red of, 51, 58. 



Pleistocene of, 262. 



Silurian of, 42. 



Trias of, 124. 



Sedgwick, Professor, 27. 

 Shallow-water deposits, 3. 

 Shanklin Sands, 166. 

 Sheppey, London clay of, 224. 

 Shotover Beds, 168. 

 Shropshire, section through part 



of, 29, 



Silica, soluble, 329. 

 Silurian period, 40. 



geography, 45. 



Skertchly, Mr. S. B. J., 271. 



Skiddaw slates, 31. 



Sorby, Dr. H. G., 119, 171. 



Southwold, boring at, 256. 



Spitzbergen, rocks of, 88, 149. 



St. Erth Beds, 242, 250. 



St. George's Channel, formation 



of, 292, 317. 



