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GENERAL INDEX. 



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BIS 



Bisons, migrations of, ii. 356 

 Bitumen in Niagara limestone, i. 415 

 Bituminous springs, i. 414 

 Blackmore, Dr., on fossil marmot in 



drift, in posture of hibernation, ii. 563 

 ' Bluffs' of the Mississippi, i. 462 

 Boa constrictor, migrations of, ii. 366 

 Boblaye on engulfed rivers and caves 



in Morea, ii. 51 6, 518 



M., on ceramique in Morea, ii. 513 



Bog iron-ore, whence derived, ii. 501 



Bogota, earthquake of 1827 in, ii. 94 



Bolgen, blocks in llysch of, i. 210 



Bone breccias in open fissures and caves, 

 ii. 521 



' Bone-bed ' composed of fish-bones now- 

 forming in deep sea, ii. 576 

 Bonelli, Professor, cited, i. 199 



— on swarms of migratory butterflies, 

 ii. 378 



' Bore,' tidal wave called the, i. 560 



Borings, Artesian. See Artesian Wells. 



Borneo and Celebes, partial fusion of 



mammalia in, ii. 351 

 Bosphorus, deluges on shores of, i. 593 

 Botanical geography, ii. 381. See Plants. 

 Botzen, stone-capped pillars of, i. 335 

 Boucher de Perthes, M., on Gallo-Eo- 



man remains in peat, ii. 499 

 Boue, M., cited, i. 391 

 Boulders drifted by ice, i. 385 



— stranded by ice, i. 384 



Bournemouth, submarine forest at, ii. 

 529 ' 



— flint tools in drift at, ii. 5 



Boussingault, M., on volcanos in Andes, 

 i. 582 



Bowen, Lieutenant, on boulders in ice, 

 i. 365 



Boyle on agitation of sea, i. 39 

 Brace on variation of the Anglo-Ameri- 

 can, ii. 471 



Bracini on Vesuvian eruptions, i. 618 

 Brahmapootra, sediment broujrht down 

 by, i. 483 



— delta of the, i, 470-483 

 Brahminical doctrines, i. 7-12 

 Brain, comparison of Negro and Euro- 

 pean, ii. 487 



classification of mammalia with refer- 

 ence to the, ii. 486 



Brander on Hampshire fossils, i. 64 

 Bravais, M., on upraised sea-coast in 

 Norway, ii. 195 



Brazil caves, extinct animals in, ii. 333 

 Breccias in caves now forming in the 

 Morea, ii. 516 



Breeding in a:id in injurious, ii. 321 

 Bridlington, marine arctic shells of, i. 

 197 



beds, possible date of, i. 297 



BLR 



Brjeslak on Vesuvius, i. 619 



Briggs, Mr., on water-borings in Egypt, 



1. o91 



Brighton, waste of cliffs of, i. 530 

 Brine springs, i. 410 



Brine, Commander, on Santorin volcanic 



eruption, ii. 170 

 Bringier, Mr., on earthquake of New 



Madrid, ii. 108 

 Bristol Channel, currents in, i. 500 

 British and Atlantic islands, landshells 



of, compared, Ii. 426 

 Brittany, waste of coast of, i. 547 

 Broca on long persistency of negro and 



other types, ii. 471 

 Brocchi cited, i. 425, 426 

 on fossil conchology, i. 31 



dying-out of a species, ii. 268 



Broderip, Mr., on opossum of Stones- 

 field, i. 160 



extinction of the Dodo, ii. 457 



long vitality of mollusca, ii. 



374 



376 



crab covered with oysters, ii. 



Brongniart, Adolphe, cited, i, 218 



on climate of Carboniferous period, 



i. 226 



— M, Alex., on raised marine strata in 

 Sweden, ii. 192 



Bronze and stone ages, climate of, i, 

 176 



Brown, Dr. E., on plants of Africa, 

 Guiana, and Brazil, ii. 391 

 — on origin of gulf- weed, ii. 392 



— Mr. James, on fiint implements in 

 Hampshire drift, ii. 561 



Buch. See Von Buch. 



Buckland, Dr., on Indian fossils, i. 10 



landslip near Axmouth, i. 538 



fossils in caves, ii. 520 



Buffon, his theory of the earth, i. 57 



— on extinction of species, ii. 461 



— ■ — geographical distribution of ani- 

 mals, ii. 329 



' natural barriers,' ii. 331 



Bunbury, Sir C, on Brazilian plants, ii, 

 385 



Miocene flora of Madeira, ii. 

 406 



Bunsen, Prof. K., on mineral springs of 

 Iceland, i. 408 



Icelandic geysers, ii. 215, 

 219,221 



hydrogen in volcanic erup- 

 tions, ii, 224 



mud volcanos, ii. 75 

 Burchell, Mr., on dispersion of plants, 

 ii. 399 



Burckhardt on caravans buried in blown 

 sand, ii. 508 



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