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INDEX. 



Concretions in the tertiary beds of the 



Isle of Man, 8. 

 Coniston flagstone, account of, 579. 

 Coniston or Furness grits, account of, 



580. 

 Coniston limestone, account of, 23, 578. 



compai'ed with the limestones 



of North Wales, 261. 



Connecticut, U.S., on ornithoidichnites 

 at, 22. 



Cooper, Mr. J. H., on fossil bones found 

 in Georgia, U.S., 33. 



Corals, fossil, from the cretaceous beds 

 of Timber Creek, New Jersey, de- 

 scribed by Mr. Lonsdale, 311. 



Corax, description and figures of teeth 

 of two species from Pondicheriy, 

 384. 



Corfu and Vido, Capt. Portlock on the 

 white limestone of, 355. 



Cotteswold Hills, Messrs. Brodie and 

 Buckman on the Stonesfield slate 

 of, 437. 



Council, annual report of, for 1843, 41 ; 

 for 1844, 335; for 1845, 527. 



' Crackers,' Isle of Wight, (lower green- 

 sand) fossils of, 200. 



Crag, account of concretions in, at 

 Felixstow, 281. 



Creseis, account of two extinct species 

 of, by Prof. E. Forbes, 362. 



Creseis flagstone, described, 264. 



Cretaceous deposits. See Greensand, 

 Lower and Upper, and Chalk. 



Cretaceous fossil fruits, 34. 



Cretaceous fossils from Southern India, 

 325, 381. 



from Santa Fe de Bogota, 391. 



from New Jersey, U.S. (shells), 



307; (corals), 311. 



Cretaceous rocks of the Caucasus, 109,. 



in the south-east of Sui-rey, 168. 



of New Jersey, U.S., described by 



by Mr. Lyell, 301. 



Cretaceous system, new facts concern- 

 ing, 89. 



Crimea, divisions of the cretaceous rocks 

 in. 111. 



Crinoidea, on the locomotive powers of, 

 159. 



Cristellaria, notice of a species of, from 

 the New Jersey cretaceous beds, 310. 



Crustaceous remains in carboniferous 

 rocks, described by Mr. Ick, 416. 



Crystalline rocks of Scandinavia and 

 Russia, 602. 



Cumberland palaeozoic rocks, classifica- 

 tion of, 70. 



Cumberland and N. Wales palaeozoic 

 strata, comparative classification of, 

 by Prof. Sedgwick, 576. 



Cunliffe, Mr., and Mr. Kaye, account 



of remains of fishes collected by 



them at Pondicherry, 381. 

 Cyclobatis oligodactylus, 442. 

 Darlaston, Mr. J. S. Dawes on a fossil 



tree found in the coal at, 292. 

 Daubeny, Dr., and Capt. Widdring- 



ton, on the phosphorite of Estrema- 



dura, 298. 

 Dawes, Mr. J. S., account of a fossil 



tree from the coal of Darlaston, 



292. 



■ remarks on Sternbergise, 359. 



Dawson, Mr., memoir on the lower 



carboniferous rocks or gypsiferous 



formations of Nova Scotia, 272. 

 ■ on the newer coal formation of 



the eastern part of Nova Scotia, 



504. 

 Dead Sea, its depth below the level of 



the Mediterranean, 139. 

 De la Beche, Sir H. T., his address on 



receiving the Wollaston medal for 



MM. Dufrenoy and E. de Beaumont, 



63. 

 Delta of the Ganges, Lieut. R. Baird 



Smith on, 4. 

 Denbigh flagstone, 217. 

 and sandstone, fossils from, 267, 



3S3. 

 Detrital phaenomena, notice of, in the 



President's speech, 91. 

 Devonian rocks of the Scottish border, 



79. 

 of Nova Scotia, notice of, by Dr. 



Gesner,187. 

 Dicynodon, Prof. Owen's account of 



fossil crania of, from S. Africa, 499. 

 Dinornis, notice of the establishment 



of the genus, 142. 

 Donations to the museum in 1842, 49; 



in 1843, 341 ; in 1844, 534. 

 Dredging, notice of Prof. E. Forbes's 



operations in the Mediterranean, 69. 

 Drift, northern, Mr. Trimmer on cliflTs 



of, in Norfolk, 435. 

 Dubois, M. de Montpereux, his work on 



the geology of the Caucasus, 108. 

 Dufrenoy, M. , and M. Elie de Beaumont, 



award of the Wollaston medal to 



them, 62. 

 Dunottar Castle (N.B.), Mr. Trevelyan 



on fractured boulders found at, 364. 

 Dunse, old red sandstone of, 80. 

 Dykes of marble and quartz in Argyle 



county, N. S. Wales, Mr. Clarke on, 



524. 

 Ear-bones of Balaena found fossil in the 



red crag, 283. 

 Echinodermata, fossil, of the Miocene 



tertiary strata of N. America, 425, 



