620 



GENEKAL INDEX. 



CHE 



Chepstow, rise of tides at, i. 494 

 Cheshire, waste of coast of, i. 546 

 Chesil Bank, formation of, i. 534 

 Chili, rainless coast regions of, i. 332 



— volcanos of, i. 579 

 upheaval of coast in, i. 580 ; ii. 96 

 upheaval of rock, 1822-35, i. 133 



— earthquakes in, ii. 89, 94, 154, 190 



— map of, ii. 91 



Chilian Andes, lakes of lava in, i. 118 



Chillesford, marine arctic shells of, i. 197 



Chillingham cattle, ii. 321 



Chimborazo, height of, i. 249 



China, climate of, i. 239 



Chinese deluge, i. 10 



Christy, Mr., on implements of the 



Eeindeer period, ii. 559 

 Cimbrian deluge, i, 65S 

 Cisterna on Etna now formed, ii. 19 

 Cities, engulfed, ii. 553-555 

 Clarke, Dr., on lava in motion, i. 623 



— Eey. W. B., on Bournemouth sub- 

 marine peat, ii. 531 



Cleavage, or slaty structure, i. 142 

 Climate, as aifected by former geogra- 

 phical change, i. 260 



astronomical causes of change of i. 



268 



causes of change of, i. 233 

 concluding remarks on, i. 231 

 former vicissitudes of, i. 174 



^how affected by obliquity of ecliptic, 

 i< 283 



of Carboniferous period, i. 224 



— Bronze and Stone age, i. 176 



— Devonian period, i. 229 



— European drift and cave deposits, 

 i. 192 



— Eocene strata, i. 204 



— Lower Miocene strata, i. 202 



— Oolitic and Triassic periods,!. 218 



— Permian period, i. 222 



— Silurian period, i. 231 



— successive phases of precession, i, 

 280 



Glacial epoch, i. 194 

 Interglacial, i. 195 

 Pliocene period, i. 198 

 Miocene period, i. 199 

 the Chalk period, i. 213 



— three causes affecting, i. 275 



— slow change of, owing to great depth 

 of ocean, i. 265 



— effect of, on Himalayan plants, ii. 319 

 Climates, map of distribution of land 



which might produce extreme, i. 266 



— extreme, caused by excentricity, i. 

 270 ^ 



Coal, reptiles of, i. 229. See Car- 

 boniferous. 



Coast-ice, i. 383 



COS 



Codrington, Mr. T., on flint implement 

 m gravel, Isle of Wight, ii. 562 



Coins, &c., sunk in the bed of the sea 

 ii. 551 ' 



Cold of southern hemisphere, causes of 

 i. 277 ' 



Colebrooke, Mr. H. T., on crocodiles of 

 Ganges, i. 473 



472 



sediment of Ganges, i. 



. age of Vedas, i. 6 

 Lollmi on igneous rocks of Ehine, i 71 



Colonna, Eabio, on fossil shells, i.' 35 



Conception Bay, elevation of, ii! 155 



animals drowned during earth- 

 quake at, ii. 540 



Cone of Vesuvius, structure of, i. 620 



— ■ — Etna, truncated, ii. 19 

 Cones, lateral, of Etna, ii. 2 



— growth of volcanic, like exogenous 

 trees, ii. 44 



Conglomerates, formation of, i. 491 

 Continental extension not applicable to 



Atlantic islands, ii. 406, 428 

 Continents, antiquity of existing, i. 253 

 Conybeare, Eev. W. D., on Lister, i. 40 



■ landslip near Axmouth, 



i. 538 



Coode, Mr., on shingle moved by a 

 storm, i. 535 



Cook, Captain, on climate of South 

 Georgia, i. 240 • 



the cause of antarctic cold, i. 



242 



drifting of canoes, ii. 467 



Coral islands, absence of, in Atlantic, 

 ii. 608 



— • — downward movement, slow and 

 uniform, ii. 601 



origin of the circular form of, ii. 

 589, 590 



■ rate and mode of growth of, ii. 581, 

 686, 604 

 reefs, formation of, ii. 579 



Corals of Carboniferous period, i. 228 



— West Indian, proving former sub- 

 mergence of isthmus of Panama, i. 

 254 



Cordier, M. on temperature of earth's 



interior, ii. 205 

 Cornwall, waste of coast in, i. 543, 545 



— drift sand in, ii. 508 



Corolla, coloured, in flowers fertilised by 



insects, ii. 309 

 Coromandel, inundations of sea on coast, 



ii. 512 

 Corona Borealis, increased brightness 



of a star in, i. 303 

 Correlation of growth, ii, 314 

 Coseguina volcano, great eruption of, i. 



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