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INDEX. 



Potsdam, interglacial deposits at, 280. 



Pozzuoli, raised-beaches of, 355. 



Preglacial and Glacial Period, identity of, 

 with Pleistocene Period, 539. 



Preglacial deposits, 261. 



Preglacial man, 545. 



Prehistoric Period, Later, commencement 

 of, 534. 



Preservation of beds under till, 2SS, 316, 

 356. 



Peestwich cited, 3, 11, 12 ; on shells in 

 river-drifts, 63 ; cited, 65 ; on succes- 

 sion of changes evinced by phenomena 

 of Brixham Cave, 88 ; on loss at high 

 levels in France, 154 ; on river-drifts, 

 124 ; on geological position of Thames- 

 valley river-drifts, 125 ; confirms obser- 

 vations of B. de Perthes, 126 ; on fiuvia- 

 tile origin of river-drifts of Southern 

 England and Northern France, 127 ; 

 on origin of brick-earth and loss, 130 ; 

 on flooded condition of Pleistocene 

 rivers, 132 ; on evidence of river-ice in 

 Pleistocene gravel-beds, 133 ; on clim- 

 atic conditions under which river-drifts 

 were deposited, 133 ; cited, 222, 234 ; 

 on "head" of Weymouth, 224; on 

 origin of "head," 225; objections to 

 his views, 225. 



Privet, 302. 



Provence, tufa of, 45, 47. 



Prunus mahalcb, 50. 



Psamviobia ferroensis, 384. 



Pteris aquilina, 49. 



Pubescent oak, 47. 



Puggaaed on glacial phenomena of Moen, 

 200. 



Pumiceous conglomerate of Mont Perrier, 

 318. 



Pumpellt, on dust-storms, 167; on Corsi- 

 can moraines, 213. 



Pupa cinerca, 64 ; P. columella, 152 ; 

 P. doliolum, 57, 152 ; P. marginata, 

 302 ; P. muscorum, 57, 59, 61, 64, 

 148, 152, 155, 238 ; P. parcedentata, 

 61 ; P. pygmcca, 238 ; P. quadridens, 

 64 ; P. secale, 302. 



Purging buckthorn, 494. 



Purple boulder-clay, 264. 



Pueves cited, 256. 



Puy de Dome, glaciation of, 211. 



Pyrenees, caves of, 20, 21, 377 ; ancient 

 glaciers of, 212 ; two glacial epochs in, 

 323. 



Pyrus acerba, 49 ; P. aria, 47. 



Quateepages, De, on types of Palaeolithic 

 man, 22 ; on Miocene and Pliocene 

 man, 346 ; on ethnical affinities of 

 Paleolithic races, 552. 



Quercus ilex, 47, 49 ; Q. mammouthii, 

 53 ; Q. pedunculata, 53, 494 ; Q. 

 pubesccns, 47 ; Q. robur, 52, 299, 448 ; 



Q. sessiliflora, 486, 515. (See also 

 Oak.) 



Rabbit, 31, 32, 87, 113. 



Races, Paleolithic, 23, 552. 



Raised-beaches, or strandlinier of Nor- 

 way, 271 ; of Gibraltar, 326 ; of Medi- 

 terranean, 355 ; of Scotland, 383, 402, 

 417, 418, 428, 525 ; of England, 453 ; 

 of Ireland, 460 ; of Sweden, 473 ; 

 absence of, in north of Scotland, 524. 



Ramsay, A. C, on flint implements, 78 ; 

 on glaciation of Anglesey, 191 ; on 

 Gibraltar breccias, 216, 324 ; on two 

 periods of glaciation in Wales, 253. 



Rance, De, cited, 191, 432 ; on post- 

 glacial deposits of Lancashire, etc., 434 ; 

 on sand-dunes of old coast-line in Lan- 

 cashire, 435 ; on Neolithic implements 

 in Lancashire, 436. 



Raspberry, 48. 



Rat, 480. 



Reade, T. Mellard, cited, 432. 



Red-deer or stag, 31, 32, 40, 87, 91, 103, 

 107, 108, 113, 138, 151, 262, 367, 

 373, 426, 438, 449, 463, 480, 496. 



Reindeer, 17, 24, 29, 32, 36, 55, 87, 91, 

 103, 107, 108, 133, 147, 148, 150, 

 151, 279, 427, 449, 456, 463. 



Reindeer migrations, 36, 41. 



Reindeer period, 101, 112, 116 ; stations 

 of, in Central France, 320. 



Reindeer, rarity of, in postglacial deposits, 

 458. 



Reneviee on frontal moraine of ancient 

 Rhone glacier, 208 ; cited, 324. 



Reusch cited, 195. 



Rhamnus catharticus, 494. 



Rhine valley, Palaeolithic remains in loss 

 of, 22 ; fauna in Pleistocene of, 63 ; 

 loss of, 145, 159. 



Rhinoceros, 28 ; Rhinoceros etruscus, 28 ; 

 R. hemitcechus, 28, 33, 304 ; R. leptor- 

 hinus, 28, 33, 97, 138, 309, 317, 320 ; 

 R. megarhinus, 28, 33, 134, 309 ; 

 R. Merekii, 28, 33, 299 ; R. tichorhimis, 

 28, 62, 103, 107, 108, 151 (see also 

 Siberian Rhinoceros). 



Rhodes, raised-beaches of, 355. 



Rhone glacier, volume of water and amount 

 of mud discharged from the ancient, 

 231. 



Rhone valley, interglacial deposits in the, 

 321. 



Rhus cotinus, 49. 



Rhynconella psittacea, 466. 



Ribeieo, C, discovers Pliocene and Mio- 

 cene implements, 345. 



Richthofen, Baron v., dust-storm theory 

 of loss, 165 ; objections to his theory, 

 244. 



Rink cited, 501. 



River-deposits of Pleistocene Period, 121 ; 



