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GENERAL INDEX. 



EAR 



Earthquake of Calabria, 1783, ii. 113 

 Lisbon, 1755, ii. 147 



— New Zealand, ii. 82 

 wave, rate of movement of, ii. 149, 



151 



waves, complicated action of, ii. 139 



— focus of how determined, ii. 136, 



138 



origin and mode of action of, ii. 



135, 140 



- changes caused by, ii. 162 



- chronologically described, ii. 82 et 



seq. 



' deficient accounts of ancient, ii. 80 



- deficiency of historical records of, ii. 



164 



- elevation of land during, ii. 82, 94 



- eflfects of, in the 19th century, ii. 110 



- excavation of valleys aided by, ii. 129 

 -intimately connected with volcanos, 



ii. 198 

 of 17th century, ii. 158 



— 19th century, ii. 80-111 



18th century, ii. 112-158 



- phenomena attending, ii. 81 



- radiation of, from a deep-seated cen- 

 tre, ii. 119, 129 



and volcanos, recapitulation of causes 



of, ii. 240 

 Earth's axis of rotation, hypothesis of 



change in, i. 504 

 — primitive heat, gradual diminution 



of, i. 303 

 cooling from a state of fusion, ii. 



226 



- shifting of axis of, ii. 208, 241 

 thickness of the crust of, ii. 203, 206 

 flexibility of the criist of, ii. 227 



Eccles church buried in blown sand, i. 

 513 



views of, taken in 1839, 1862, i. 



514 



Ecliptic, variation in obliquity of, affect- 

 ing climate, i. 282 



Edmonstone island, i. 476 



Egerton, Rev. W. H., on Indian fossils, 

 i. 213 



Eggs of mollusca attached to floating 



wood, ii. 377 

 • I^gyP^» towns buried by sand in, ii. 507 

 Egyptian cosmogony, 12, 13 

 — mummies identical with living 



species, ii. 263 

 Ehrenberg on infusoria in tuff*, i. 645 



ashes enveloping Pompeii, i. 644 

 origin of bog iron-ore, ii. 501 

 growth of corals, ii. 580, 581, 



591 



Eifel, hot springs of the, i. 396 

 Electricity a source of volcanic heat, ii. 

 230, 242 



ETN 



Elephant, covering of fur on, i. 184 



vegetation required for food of the 

 i. 190 



possible rate of increase of the, ii. 

 317 



remains of extinct, in Sicily and 

 Malta, ii. 342 



Elephants, carcasses of, when imbedded 

 in ice, i. 296 



now a waning group, ii. 337 



Elevation craters, hypothesis of, i. 633 ; 

 ii. 13 



and subsidence of land, causes of, ii. 

 234, 242 



areas of, and of subsidence in Pacific, 

 ii. 603 



Elizabeth or Henderson Island, upraised 

 atoll of, ii. 598 



Elsa, P., travertin formed by the, i. 400 

 Embankments of Po and Adige, i. 423 

 England, w^aste of west coast of, i. 546 

 Eocene fauna and Flora, climate of, i. 

 204 



— period, ice-action in, i. 209 



map showing geographical changes 

 since the, i. 251 



Epochs, geological, comparative dura- 

 tion of, i. 300 



Epomco, Mount, in Ischia, i. 601 

 Equatorial current, course of, i. 498 

 Equinoxes, precession of, i. 274 ; ii. 203, 

 240 



Equivocal generation, theory of, i. 22 

 Erdmann, Prof. Axel, on rise of land in 

 Sweden, ii. 186 



Erie, currents of Lake, i. 561 

 Erratics, absence of, in equatorial re- 

 gions, i. 109 

 and ice-action, 108 

 Eruption of Monte Nuovo, i. 608-615 

 Escher, von der Linth, on flood in the 

 Val de Bagnes, i. 353 



Habkeren blocks, i. 210 



glacier motion, i. 370 

 Eschricht on migration of Greenland 



whales, i. 286 

 Essex, inroads of sea on coast of, i. 521 

 Estuary deposits, imbedding of fresh- 

 water species in, ii. 569 

 Estuaries, silting up of, i. 516 



— formation of, i. 566 



Ethiopian character of some N. African 

 mammalia, ii. 341 



— region, mammalia of the, ii. 343 

 Etna, rent made in cone of, i. 578 



— a glacier under lava on, ii. 38 

 — ' ancient valleys of, ii. 40 



antiquity of cone of, ii. 42 

 double axis of eruption of, ii. 9 

 fossils in lavas of, ii. 510 

 greenstone dikes in, ii. 9 





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