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635 



MAP 



Map showing position of miid-lumps of 

 the Mississippi, i. 449 



— changes in geography since the 



Eocene period, i. 252 



— present iineqnal distribution of 



hmd and sea, i. 258 



ideal, of normal distribution of land 



and sea, i. 263 

 of Calabria, ii. 114 



— Chili, ii. 91 



— Cutch, ii. 98 



— depth of ocean between Atlantic 

 islands and the mainland, ii. 407 ^ 



— Indian and Australian zoological 



provinces, ii. 347 



— Madeira Archipelago, ii. 405 



— New Zealand, ii. 84 



— Santorin, ii. 6Q 

 . Sweden, ii. 184 



Maps, ideal, showing position of land 

 and sea, which might produce ex- 

 tremes of heat and cold, i. 266 



Marine fossils, Greek theories as to, i. 



19 

 alluvium burying fossils, ii. 572 



deposits, freshw^ater species imbed- 

 ded in, ii. 569 



plants, imbedding of, ii. 571 

 reptiles, imbedding of, ii. 573 

 strata, mammalia imbedded in, ii. 



540 



— testaeea, imbedding of, ii. 574 



— upraised strata in Sweden, ii. 192 

 Marjelen See, or glacier-lake, i. 377 

 Marks cut at high-water level in Swe- 

 den, ii. 185, 188 



Marl lakes of Scotland, ii. 609 

 Marmora, Count de la, on Sardinian 



buried pottery, ii. 563 

 Marsupials of Australia, ii. 332 

 Martins on animals carried on floating 



islands, ii. 362 

 Mattioli on fossil organic shapes, i. 33 

 Mauritius, reef uplifted above the level 



of the sea, ii. 606 



Meandrina labyrinthica^ ii. 580 



Medial moraines, i. 374 



Mediterranean, depth of, at Nile delta, 

 i. 431 



depths, temperature, and currents of, 

 i. 562 



level of, compared to Eed Sea, i. 

 496 



section of basins of, i. 562 



absence of tides in, ii. 168 

 Medusa, metamorphoses of the, ii. 327 

 Meech on increase of heat by shortening 

 of minor axis of earth's orbit, i. 273 



on solar radiation, i. 284 



Megna Eiver, arm of Brahmapootra, i. 

 470 



MIS 



Melville, Dr., on extinction of the Dodo, 



ii. 457 

 Melville Island, carboniferous fossils 

 in, i. 225 



migration of musk-ox to, ii. 361 



Memphis, computation of growth of Nile 



mud at, i. 435 

 Menu s institutes, i. 7, 8 

 Mer de Glace, width of, i. 370 

 Mersey, vessel in bed of, ii. 547 

 Messina, tide in Straits of, i. 493 

 subsidence of quay of, ii. 121 

 Metallic substances changed by sub- 

 mersion, ii. 549 

 Metamorphic rocks, texture and origin 



of, i. 142 

 Metzger on modifications eflfected in 



maize, ii. 298 

 Mexico, volcanos of, i. 584 ; ii. 53 

 Meyer, H. Von, on reptiles of Trias, i. 



219 

 Meyer, Dr., on earthquake in Chili, ii. 95 



Michell, Rev. J., on earthquakes, i. 61 



• — on retreat of sea during earth quakes^ 



ii. 150, 152 

 Michelotti, M. Jean, on growth of corals, 



ii. 580 



Microlestes, discovery of, m Upper Trias, 



i. 161 



Middendorf, M., Calamites found by, 

 near mouths of Lena, i. 225 



on Siberian mammoth, i. 184-188 

 Migration of birds, ii. 364 

 _ _ fish, ii. 369 



insects, ii. 377 



quadrupeds, ii. 355-363 



reptiles, ii. 365 



Testaeea, ii. 372 



Migratory instincts, ii, 357 



Milford Haven, rise of tides at, i. 494 



Millennium, i. 32 



Miller, Dr. W. A., on spectrum analysis 



of a variable star, i. 303 

 Mineral, character of strata variations 



in, i. 309 



— springs, ingredients of, i. 397 



veins, contraction of, explained, ii. 



125 

 Minerals of Vesuvius, i. 632 

 Mineralisation of plants, ii. 532 

 Mines, heat measured by descents in, ii. 



205 

 Miocene fossil trees in arctic latitudes, 



i. 203 



— Lower, strata of, i. 202 

 Upper, warm climate of, i. 199 

 — ice-action in, i. 205 

 age of Atlantic islands, ii. 403 



— types of plants in Atlantic islands, 



ii. 418 ' ^ 



Mississippi, basin and delta of, i. 440 



