INDEX. 



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the loess of the Rhine, 83 ; conclu- 

 sions respecting that deposit, 84 ; on 

 fossil vertebrae of the shark family in 

 the loess, 221; on the cretaceous and 

 tertiary strata of the Danish islands 

 of Seeland and Moen, 191, 



Lyell (C.Esq. ), address on announcing 

 the award of the WoUaston Me- 

 dal to M. Agassiz, 354 ; of £9.5 to 

 ]\I. Deshayes, 355 ; of Wollaston 

 Medals to Capt. Cautley and Dr, 

 Falconer, 476. 



Lyell (C. Esq.), Anniversary Address, 

 1836, 357 ; notice of Fellows de- 

 ceased during 1835, Mr, Goodhall, 

 Mr. Mammett, 357 ; notice of Mr. 

 De la Beche's appointment of Ord- 

 nance Geological Surveyor, 358 ; 

 observations on Dr. Macculloch's 

 Geological Map of Scotland and 

 System of Geology, 358 ; remarks on 

 Prof. Sedgwick's paper on changes 

 of structure produced in stratified 

 rocks after deposition, 359; on Mr. 

 Blurchison's Silurian System, 361 ; 

 on Mr. De la Beche's trap rocks, 

 contemporaneous with the new red 

 of Devonshire, 363; on the Faxoe 

 beds, and comparison of them with 

 the Bermuda strata, 365; account 

 of the cliffs of Moen, 366; remarks 

 on M. Agassiz's discoveries in fossil 

 ichthyology, 371 ; observations on 

 the crag, and Mr. Charlesworth's 

 subdivisions, 372 ; on the earthquake 

 in Chili, 1835, 373; in 1S22, 376; 

 on the subsidence of part of the coast 

 of Greenland, 379 ; on tlie rise of 

 part of the coast of Sweden, 379 ; on 

 the proI)able cause of, 380 ; remarks 

 on Mr. Babbage's theory, 380; no- 

 tice of Dr. Beck's paper on Den- 

 mark, and of the beds of recent 

 shells near Uddevalla, &c., 380 ; on 

 the transport of boulders by ice, on 

 the coast of the Baltic, 381, 383; on 

 the lakes of Canada and the St, 

 Lawrence, 382 ; off Newfoundland, 

 382 ; remarks on the boulders of the 

 Alps, 382 ; on M, Charpentier's and 

 M. Venetz's theory, 382; notice of 

 the occurrence of icebergs in low 

 latitudes, 383 ; observations on the 

 process by which the Baltic blocks 

 were detached from the parent 

 rocks, 383 ; on the supposed power 

 of earthquake waves and hurricanes 

 in moving large boulders, 384 ; on 

 the effects of insensible elevatory 

 movements in raising above the level 

 of the ocean, boulders deposited from 

 icebergs, 384 ; remarks on Mr. Mur- 

 chison's distinction between local 



drift and northern drift, 385 ; on 

 changes in relative level of land and 

 sea in modern times, 386 ; on the 

 loess of the Rhine, 387 ; on the dirt 

 bed of Portland, 388 ; on the level 

 of the Caspian, 389 ; on the rapid 

 growth of geological researches, 390, 

 Lyell (C. Esq.), Anniversary Address, 

 1837, 479; notice of Fellows de- 

 ceased, Dr, Henry, 479; Prof, Hoff- 

 mann, 479 ; Baron D. de Ferussac, 

 481 ; remarks on papers read during 

 the past year. Home geology, 482 ; 

 carboniferous series, 483, 490 ; on 

 the irregular direction of grooves 

 in slickensides, 483 ; the effects pro- 

 duced by vibrations in fissured walls 

 during earthquakes, 484; the causes 

 which may produce alternately fresh- 

 water and marine strata, 484 ; obser- 

 vations on Dr. Fitton's explanation 

 of the effects of dome-shape masses, 

 486; Mr. Hopkins' theory of trans- 

 verse faults, 487 ; notice of Prof, 

 Pliillips' second part of the Illus- 

 trations of Yorkshire, 488 ; remarks 

 on the structure of Devonshire, 489; 

 on the coal-measure plants found in 

 the Biddeford culm, 491; on Mr. 

 De la Beche's views respecting the 

 age of the culm, 493 ; on the occur- 

 rence of coal-measure plants in rocks 

 older than the coal measures on the 

 continent, 493; observations on Prof, 

 Studer's map of the Bernese Higli- 

 lands, 495; on the occurrence of 

 keuper in England, 496 ; on the 

 classification of the plastic clay, 496; 

 on mineral veiris, 497 ; respecting 

 I\I. Fournets treatise on, 498 : Fo- 

 reign geology, 499 ; remarks on Mr. 

 Strickland's and iVIr. Hamilton's dis- 

 coveries in Asia Minor, 499 ; on Mr. 

 Clarke's paper on the Cotentin, 501 : 

 Proofs nf modern elevation and sub- 

 sidence, notices respecting memoirs 

 treating on, 501, in England, 50], 

 South America, 505, Sweden, 506; 

 argument that beds of gravel called 

 diluvium were not accumulated by 

 any violent flood, 507 : Organic re- 

 mains, observations on papers con- 

 nected with, 508 ; on the discoveries 

 of Captain Cautley and Dr. Falconer, 

 508; Mr, Darw'in, 510; on the 

 range of fossil shells, 513; on the 

 , stale of fossil plants, 514; account 

 of the experiments of Prof. Gcippert, 

 515; of Prof. Ehrenberg's disco- 

 veries in fossil Infusoria, 5)6; re- 

 marks on Dr. Buckland's Bridge- 

 water Treatise, 517 ; objections to 

 the doctrine that, by the aid of geolo- 



