804 
nexion of the eastern and western 
chalk denudations, 349; notice of, in 
Russia, 404, 728. 
Chantrey (Sir Francis), notice of, in the 
President’s obituary for 1842, 637. 
Chartres (Capt.), on greenstone trap in 
Southern Africa, 102. 
Chatfield (Consul), notice of an earth- 
quake at San Salvador, 179. 
Cheirotherium footsteps, account of, from 
Storeton quarries, 12, 14; from Che- 
shire, 14; comparative measurement 
of, from Hessberg, Storeton and Tar- 
porley, 155; notices of, at Chester, 
100. 
Chelones, Mr. Owen on six species of, 
from the London clay, 570. 
Chester, notices of a slab of stone with 
Cheirotherium footsteps at, 100. 
Chiloe, Mr. Darwin on the erratic 
bouldersand contemporaneous deposits 
in the island of, 425. 
Christiania, Mr. Lyell on the Silurian 
strata near, 465. 
Cintra, notice of the neighbourhood of, 
32 et seq. 
Clarke (Rev. W. B.), on showers of ashes 
off the Cape de Verde Islands, 145 ; 
on the geology of the vicinity of Cape 
Town, 418. 
Clyde, observations on the relative ages 
of the tertiary and post-tertiary de- 
posits in the basin of the, 149. 
Coal, Mr. Buddle’s account of depressions 
produced by excavating seams of, 147 ; 
notice of the modes of working, 148; 
Mr. Bowman on the formation of, 
by gradual subsidence, 270; on a pro- 
bable origin of, by Mr. Logan, 276. 
Coal conglomerate, notice of, in South 
Wales, 276. 
Coal-field, Mr. Beaumont, origin of the 
vegetation of, 152; Mr. Williamson 
on the fishes of Yorkshire and Lanca- 
shire, 153; Mr. Logan on some fea- 
tures in the, of South Wales, 275, 
of Pennsylvania, 707, of Nova Scotia, 
711; Prof. Sedgwick and Mr. Mur- 
chison on the, of Westphalia, 301, 
of Belgium, 306; Mr. Lyell’s account 
of the Pennsylvanian, 554; Mr. Mur- 
chison, M. de Verneuil and Count Key- 
serling’s, of the Donetz, 721. 
Coddon Hill grits, accounts of, 116, 159, 
Colthurst (J. Esq.), account of the con- 
tortions and faults produced in strata 
by the Brent embankment, 590. 
Comrie, evidences of glaciers near, 335. 
Coniston limestone, Mr. Sharpe’s notice 
of the, 602. 
Connecticut, on fossil foot-prints of birds, 
INDEX. 
and impressions of rain-drops in the 
valley of the, 793. 
Conrad (Mr.), notices of his labours in 
American paleontology, 735-741. 
Contortions, account of, produced by the 
Brent embankment, 590. 
Conway, Dr. Buckland on glacial action 
in the valley of the, 579. 
Cook (Rev. Dr.), notice of, in the obitu- 
ary of the President’s Address for 1841, 
522. 
Coomb Hill, near Tewkesbury, section of 
the lower lias strata, 585. 
Corals, fossil, notices of, by Mr. Lyell, 
from Galloway, 28; by Prof. Sedg- 
wick and Mr. Murchison, from the 
Rhenish provinces and Belgium, 303 
et seg.; by Mr. Maclauchlan, from 
Pembrokeshire, 449; Mr. Henwood, 
from New Brunswick, 455 ; Mr. Lyell, 
from the neighbourhood of Aymestry, 
463, of Christiania, 466. Lists of, from 
the Silurian system, 559; notice of, 
found in Russia by Mr. Murchison, M. 
de Verneuil and Count Keyserling, 
719 et seq. 
Cornwall, Mr. Williams on the grey- 
wacke of, 115, 158; Prof. Sedgwick 
and Mr. Murchison on the classifica- 
tion of the older rocks of, 121. 
Cotentin, Mr. Lyell’s comparison of the 
fossils of the newer tertiary strata in 
the, with those of the faluns -of the 
Loire, 437. 
Council, list of, and officers for 1839, 
60; 1840, 268; 1841, 387; 1842, 
636. 
Crag, Mr. Lyell on the age of, in Norfolk 
and Suffolk, 126 ; comparison of fossils 
of the, with the organic remains of 
faluns of Touraine, 180; on the rela- 
tive age of the faluns and Suffolk, 437. 
Craig (J. Esq.), on boulder deposits 
near Glasgow, 415. 
Cretaceous system, notices of, in Euro- 
pean Russia, 404, 728; observations 
on the connexion of the, with the ter- 
tiary formations of Virginia, &c., 735. 
Creuze (Mr.), on the timbers of the Royal 
George, 289. 
Cromartie, Mr. Miller on the old red 
sandstone in the neighbourhood of, 
124. 
Cromer, Mr. Lyell’s account of the neigh- 
bourhood of, 171. 
Crustacea, fossil, notices of, by Herr 
Roemer, from the Wealden of Ger- 
many, 121; by the Rey. P. B. Brodie, 
from the Wealden strata, 184, 780 ; by 
Mr. Murchison, M. de Verneuil and 
Count Keyserling, from Russia, 400, 
