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INDEX. 



i. 128 ; size, character, and 

 habits, i. 129; further disco- 

 veries of, ii. 20. 



Meisner, lignite of, near Cassel, i. 

 381. 



Metals, advantageous dispositions 

 of, i. 84, 413 — 415; important 

 properties of, i. 414, 415. 



Meyer, Herman Von, notice of ink 

 bags with fossil internal shells of 

 sepia, ii. 52; on ink bag in con- 

 tact with belemnite, ii. 69 ; his 

 description of fossil mammalia 

 of Georgensgemund, i. 78 ; his 

 notices of fossil crustaceans, i. 

 293. 



Mineral bodies, proofs of design in, 

 i. 426. 



Milan, bones in museum at, i. 80. 



Miller his Natural History of cri- 

 noidea, i. 314,315, 321,322, 325, 

 328. 



Milliola, vast numbers in strata 

 near Paris, i. 290. 



Minerals, proofs of design in com- 

 postion and adaptations of, i. 426. 



Miocene division of tertiary strata, 

 i. 68 ; period, mammalia of, i. 

 77. 



Mississippi, drifted trees in Delta 

 of, i. 382. 



Mitscherlich, his production of ar- 

 tificial crystals by fire, i. 42. 



Molasse, localities of lignite in, i. 

 382. 



Molusca, many genera of, in tran- 

 sition strata, i. 56. 



Mollusks, fossil remains of, i. 224 ; 

 naked, fossil remains of, i. 230. 



Monitors, character of recent spe- 

 cies, i. 167; type of, enlarged 

 in fossil saurians, i. 170. 



Monpezat, granite enclosed in lava 

 at, ii. 7. t 



Molecules, successive condition o 

 in crystalline bodies, i. 428, 429, 

 430. 



Monte Bolca, vast accumulation of 

 fossil fishes at, i. 101 ; fishes pe- 

 rished suddenly, i. 101 ; fossil 

 fishes of, i. 203, 216 ; fishes of, 

 rearranged by Agassiz, i. 217.| 



Mont Mart re, list of vertebrata found 

 at, i. 73 ; fishes of, i. 217. 



Morton, Dr., mosasaurus found by, 

 in America, i. 167. 



Moses, his cosmonogy reconcileable 

 with geology, i. 26; object of his 

 account of creation, i. 35. 



Mosaic history in accordance with 

 geology, i. 21. 



Mosaic cosmogony, attempts to re- 

 concile with geology, i. 23. 



Mosasaurus, great animal of Maes- 

 tricht, i. 167; allied to monitors, 

 i. 167, 168 ; described by Cam- 

 per and Cuvier, i. 167; coeval 

 with the cretaceous formation, i. 

 167; remains of where found, i. 

 167 ; length and character of, i. 

 168 ; teeth, peculiar character 

 of, i. 169 ; vertebra, number of, 

 i. 169 ; extremities, character of, 

 i. 169; character, predicted by 

 Cuvier, i. 170 ; a link between 

 the monitors and iguanas, i. 170 ; 

 habit, aquatic, i. 170. 



Moscow Bulletin Soc. Imp. de, 

 observations on coprolites in, i. 

 156. 



Moschus pygmseus, tendons in back 

 of, i. 175. 



Muller, on eyes of insects, &c. i. 

 299. 



Multilocular shells, extinct genera 

 of, i. 238. 



Munster, Count, foraminiferes dis- 

 covered by, in Maestricht stone, 

 ii. 64 ; his discovery of mamma- 

 lia at George nsgemund, i. 78 ; 

 pterodactyle described by, i. 

 173 ; his figures of horny sheaths 

 of belemnites, i. 283 ; his col- 

 lection of crustaceans from So- 

 lenhofen i. 292. 



Murchison, Mr., his discovery of 

 fishes in old red sandstone, i. 

 211 ; Silurian system established 

 by, i. 394 ; fishes, &c. found in 

 Wolverhampton coal field by, ii. 

 43. 



Myliobates, fossil plates of, i. 221. 



Nacre, causes of preservation of, i. 

 283. 



Natural religion, addition to its 

 evidences by geology, i. 22 ; 

 links in evidences of supplied by 

 geology, i. 436. 



Nautilus, fossil species peculiar to 

 certain formations, i. 235; de- 

 scription of, i. 242 ; mechanical 



