INDEX. 



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Mud in glacial rivers, 232. 

 Muggendorf Cave, 112. 

 Mulgcdium alpinum, 353. 

 Mukchison on Russian Tchernozera, 158, 



163, 242 ; cited, 203. 

 Murex laviellosus, 502. 

 Musk sheep, 17, 24, 25, 29, 32, 39, 40, 



134. 

 Mya, 284 ; M. truncata, 334, 466, 475. 

 My odes lemmus, 148 ; M. obensis, 62 ; 



M. torquatus, 62, 149. (See also 



Marmot. ) 

 Myriophyllum, 485, 492. 

 Myrtillus uliginosa, 493. 

 Mytilus edulis, 284, 399, 469. 



Natn (N. America), range of temperature 

 at, 39. 



Nancy, Pleistocene lignite near, 54. 



Nantes, range of temperature at, 39. 



Nar-valley beds, 268. 



Nassa, 502 ; N. reticulata, 278, 281. 



Natica gromlandica, 467. 



Nathorst on arctic flora of Pleistocene 

 deposits, 55 ; on arctic flora below 

 peat, 54, 485, 491 ; on plants of Nor- 

 folk forest-bed, 262, 335 ; on Swedish 

 interglacial beds, 270 ; on postglacial 

 flora of Bovey Tracey, 456 ; on raised- 

 beaches of Scania, 475. 



Naumann detects striated rocks in Sax- 

 ony, 198. 



Necera cuspidata, 467 ; iV. rostrata, 502. 



Neanderthal cranium, 21, 23. 



Neckar valley, loss of, 145, 151. 



Nehring on loss-beds of Thiede and 

 Westeregeln, 147 ; cited, 245. 



Neolithic Age, contrasts between, and 

 Pakeolithic, 11, 13, 23, 378 ; difficulty 

 of ascertaining relative antiquity of 

 relics of, 363 ; kitchen-middens of, 

 365 ; lake-dwellings of, 369 ; imple- 

 ments of, 372 ; fauna of, 373 ; cereals 

 of, 373 ; passage from, into Bronze Age, 



374 ; people of, 374, 376 ; rude stone 

 monuments of, 375 ; long barrows of, 



375 ; caves of, 376 ; traces of canni- 

 balism in, 377 ; in Denmark, 487 ; 

 commencement of, in postglacial period, 

 534, 535 ; duration of, 557. 



Neolithic and Paleolithic deposits, break 

 between, 446, 449, 481, 496, 547, 553. 



Neolithic implements below Jaravallen, 

 473 ; in Flemish peat, 480 ; in peat of 

 Somme valley, 480 ; in Danish peat, 

 487 ; in peat cf Troyes, 493. 



Neolithic man in Scotland, 428. 



Neolithic remains, relative position of, in 

 cave-deposits, 75, 119, 120. 



Newcastle, range of temperature at, 39. 



New Stone Age. (See Neolithic Age.) 



Nilsson on Jaravallen, 473. 



Nithsdale, drums of, 183. 



Nordenskiold, Prof., cited, 497. 



Norfolk, great erratics in, 193. 



North America, extremes of temperature 

 in, 34 ; migrations of mammals in, 36 ; 

 temperature of east coast of, 39; Glacial 

 Period in, 228. 



Northern Asia, extremes of temperature 

 in, 34 ; migrations of mammals in, 36. 



Northern field-vole, 62. 



Northern France, loss of, 153. 



Northern Germany, interglacial deposits 

 of, 276. 



North Sea, path of mer de glace in, 192, 

 203 ; depths of, 204, 339 ; dry land 

 during interglacial epochs, 340 ; dry 

 land in early postglacial times, 509. 



Northumberland, glaciation of, 191. 



North-west Europe, former geographical 

 changes in, 339. 



Norway, glaciation of, 195 ; carry of er- 

 ratics in south of, 204 ; strandlinier of, 

 271 ; postglacial shell-beds of, 465, 

 466 ; glacial shell-beds of, 466 ; unfos- 

 siliferous postglacial deposits of, 466, 

 471 ; peat-bogs of, 487; former wooded 

 condition of, 488. 



Norwegian lemming. (See Lemming.) 



Nova Scotia, southern colonies round 

 coasts of, 502. 



Novaia Zemlia, 41, 340. 



Nucula tenuis, 467. 



Nussdorf, shells in loss of, 237. 



Oak, 47, 52, 53, 148, 320, 420, 432, 435, 



436, 438, 448, 461, 469, 480, 486, 



487, 494. 

 Obliquity of the ecliptic, 560. 

 Ochils, 178, 179 ; flood-gravels from, 



387. 

 Odostomia albella, 467 ; O. plicata, 467. 

 Oerzenhofs, peat with arctic-alpine plants 



at, 492. 

 Olbers on tiers of trees in peat of 



Sweden, 528. 

 Oldham cited, 190. 



Old Stone Period. (See Pala;olithic Age.) 

 Olive, 48, 51. 

 Olmo, human cranium in Pleistocene of, 



22, 318. 

 Omalids, D\ cited, 346. 

 Onega, height of, above sea, 471. 

 Ontario, Lake, glacial and interglacial 



deposits on shores of, 293. 

 Ophiura Sarsii, 467. 

 Orkney Islands, 188. 

 Orne, river, submerged trees at mouth of, 



481. 

 Oronsay, raised-beaches of, 418. 

 Orth cited, 283. 



Osterfjord, strand-lines of, 273, 275. 

 Ostrea cochlear, 502 ; O. edulis, 399, 



468 ; 0. virginiana, 503. 

 Otter, 31, 32, 367, 449, 494. 



