INDEX. 



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Beetle, converted to calcedony 

 front Japan, ii. 78. 



Beetle stones, from coal shale, near 

 Edinburgh, i. 155. 



Beginning-, meaning of the word in 

 Gen. i. 1. i. 25, 26 ; proofs of in 

 phenomena of primary stratified 

 rocks, i. 53; conclusions respect- 

 ing necessity of, i. 54 ; existing 

 and extinct species shown to have 

 had, i. 50, 51. 54; geological evi- 

 dences of, i. 455, 436. 



Belcher, Captain, his observations 

 on iguanas, i. 186. 



Belcher, Captain, ammonites found 

 by, in Chili, 254. 



Belemnites, geological extent of, i. 

 280; writers on the subject of, i. 

 280; structure and uses of, i. 281 ; 

 a compound internal shell, i. 281; 

 chambered portion of, allied to 

 Nautilus and Orthoceratite, i. 281 ; 

 ink-bags connected with, i. 282; 

 causes of partial preservation of, 

 i. 285; its analogy to shell of 

 Nautilus and to internal shell of 

 Sepia, i. 285; large number of 

 species of, i. 286. 



Belemno-sepia, proposed new fa- 

 mily of cephalopods, i. 282. 



Bentley, his contradiction of the 

 epicurean theory of atoms, i. 431. 



Bermudas, strata formed by the ac- 

 tion of the wind in, 104. 



Berkeley, Bishop, on sensible de- 

 monstaation of the existence of 

 an invisible God, i. 443. 



Bible, reveals nothing of physical 

 science, i. 22. 



Birds, extent of fossil remains of, i. 

 74 ; fossil footsteps of, in Con- 

 necticut, ii. 39. 



Blainville, M., his memoir on be- 

 lemnites, i. 280 ; his reasoning 

 respecting belemnites confirmed, 

 i. 283. 



Blomfield, Bishop, on connexion of 

 religion and science, i. 437. 



Bohemia, plants preserved in coal 

 mines of, 344, 345. 



Bonn, brown coal formation near, 

 i. 381. 



Botany, its importance to geology, 

 i. 92. 

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

 tiary period, i. 67. 



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Bothrodendron, charac'er of, i. 357. 



Boyle, Mr., on distinct provinces of 

 natural and revealed religion, i. 

 438. 



Bradford, apiocrinites found at i. 

 323. 



Branchipus how allied to trilobites, 

 i. 297, 298. 



Braun, Professor of Carlsruhe, his 

 list of the plants of CEningen, i. 

 383, et seq. 



Brentford, Artesian wells at, i. 421. 



Broderip, Mr., his observations on 

 living iguanas, i. 182, 186; on 

 new species of brachiopodo, i. 

 225 ; on crustaceans from the 

 lias at Lyme, i. 293. 



Brongniart, M. Alexandre, his ac- 

 count of the basin of Paris, i. 67 ; 

 his history of trilobites, i. 295 ; 

 on erect position of trees in the 

 coal formation of St. Etienne, i. 

 353, 554. 



Brongniart, M. Adolphe, his divi- 

 sions of submarine vegetation, i. 

 340 ; divisions of the fossil equi- 

 setacex, i. 346 ; classification 

 of fossil ferns, i. 347 ; observa- 

 tions on fossil conifers, i. 364 ; 

 on plants of the Gres bigarre, i. 

 368 ; on plants of the secondary 

 formations, i. 369. 



Brora, coal in oolite formation at, 

 i. 66, 369. 



Brougham, Lord, on religious end 

 of study of natural philosophy, 

 i. 440. 



Brown coal, character and extent 

 of, i. 381. 



Brown, Mr. Robert, on distribution 

 of living ferns, i. 348 ; discovery 

 of Gymnospermous structure of 

 conifers and cycadeje, i. 363 ; 

 his section of a stem of cycas 

 revoluta, i. 373 ; his discovery of 

 fossil spiral vessels, i. 375 ; name 

 of podocarya suggested by i. 

 378 ; his discovery of fossil spiral 

 vessels and traces of extravasated 

 gum in fossil cycadites, ii. 100. 



Bruckmann, M. Von, his descrip- 

 tion and application of Artesian 

 wells, i. 421, 423. 



Brunei, Mr. jun., his experiment 

 in a diving bell, i. 142. 



Brussels, fossil emys at, i. 197. 



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