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ABBOT, Gen., on Mississippi, i. 442, 

 445, 452, 458 

 Abich on Yesuvian eruptions, i. 629; 



ii. 224 

 Adams, TVIr., on fossil elephant, i. 184 

 Adams and Mnrie, Messrs., on shells of 



Nile delta, i. 438 

 Adhemar on recession of glaciers before 



1248, i. 278 



attraction of ocean by ice, i. 272 



Adige, delta of, i. 423 

 Adria, formerly a seaport, 425 

 Adriatic, depth of, and deposits in, i. 

 426; ii. 577 



— fossils of, i. 54, 57 

 -^gean sea, Professor Forbes' dredging 



in, ii. 372 



Africa, S., extreme heat of soil in, i. 277 

 African sands, drifting of, ii. 507 

 Agassiz on delta of the Amazons, i. 467 



— — G-len Eoy roads, i. 377 

 — ■ — Lake Superior, i. 421 



motion of glaciers, i. 369, 370 



coral reefs, ii. 588 



coincidence of human races and 



zoological proA'inces, ii. 473 



— glacier of Amazons, i. 468 



— multiple origin of the human race, 

 li. 475 



Air-breathers, scarcity of, in primary 

 rocks, i. 155 



Airthrey, fossil whale found at, ii. 573 

 Airy, Professor, cited, i. 291 



— — on shifting of earth's axis, ii. 208 

 Alaska, volcanos in, i. 587 



Aldborough, incursions of the sea at, i. 

 521 



Alderney, Pace of, i. 500 



Alessandro degli Alessandri, his theory, 

 i. 48 



Aletsch glacier damming up a lake, i. 

 378 



Aleutian Isles, volcanos of, i. 585 



Allan, Dr., on coral in Madagascar, ii. 



584 ^ 



Alluvial plain of Mississippi, i. 457 

 --' deposits, fossils in, ii. 511 

 Alluvium, volcanic, i. 642 

 ^Ips, height of fossil shells in, i. 144 



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Alps, how much raised during Tertiary 

 epoch, i. 253 



— two glacial periods of, i. 196 

 Alternate generation, ii. 327 

 Amazons, delta of, i. 466 



— landslips on the, i. 469 



— animals floated down on driftwood 

 by, ii. 361 



America, North, floods of, i. 351 



inroads of the sea in, i. 559 



South, slow rise of land in, i. 131 

 probable date of first peopling of, ii. 

 474 

 - — rapid spread of domestic animals 



over, ii. 457 

 Amoorland, quadrupeds common to Eu- 

 rope and, ii. 341 

 Ampere on electro-magnetism, ii. 230 

 Ampliitherium in Oolite of Stonesfield, 



i. 159 

 Anaximander on origin of men from 



fish, i. 15 

 Ancon sheep, origin of the, ii. 312 

 Andes, changes of level in, i. 132 



— height of fossil shells in, i. 144 

 slow volcanic action of, i. 130 



— volcanos of the, i. 579 



Animals, aptitude to domestication of, 



ii. 301 

 ■ — buried in peat, ii. 502, 505 

 - — dispersion of by man, ii. 366 



— distribution of plants by, ii. 393 



— drifted on floating islands, ii. 362 



— drifting on ice-floes of, ii. 360 



- — effects of some, in exterminating 

 others, ii. 447 



extinct, found with Palseolithic im- 

 plements, ii. 563 



■ extirpated by man in Great Britain, 

 ii. 454 



freshwater buri ed in subaqueous 

 strata, ii. 565 

 hybridisation of, ii. 305 

 imbedding of in new strata, ii. 536- 



539 



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rapid spread of domestic, over Ame- 

 rica, ii. 457 



■ six principal provinces of, ii. 335 

 tameness of unpersocuted, ii. 303 



