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Neolithic era. climate of, 177 



period, possible date of, i. 295 



— implements of the, ii. 558 



Keotropical regions of animals, ii. 335 



Keptunists and Vulcanists, i. 71 



Nero, Francesco del, on eruption of 



Monte Nuovo, i. 611 

 New Madrid, sunk country of, i. 456 



— Caledonian, coral reef surrounding, 



ii. 592 



— Madrid, U.S., earthquake in, ii. 106 



. sunk country of, ii. 108 



— Zealand^ rapid spread of water-cress 



in, ii. 453 

 earthquake of 1855, ii. 82 



glaciers of, i. 211, 224 



ferns in, i. 224 



map of and site of earthquake, ii. 



84 



absence of indigenous mammalia 



in, ii. 411 



— red sandstone, various ages of, i. 114 

 Newbold, Lieutenant, on mud of Nile, 



i, 431 



Niagara, recession of Falls of, i. 359 



— view of the Falls of, i. 358 

 Nile mud, borings made in, i. 435 



— delta of, i. 431 



Nilsson, Prof., on sinking of land south 



of Stockholm, ii. 190 

 migration of eels, ii. 371 



weapons of Pre-historic man, 



ii. 558 

 Nomenclature geological, defects of, i. 

 ■ 115 

 Nordenskiold, Prof., on rise of land in 



Sweden, ii. 187 

 Norfolk, waste of coast of, i. 511 

 North Cape, rise of land at, i. 133 



whether land now rising at, ii. 195 



Northern hemisphere, former climate of, 



i. 174 

 ~ — extreme climates of the, i. 276 

 Northstrand, destruction of, by the sea, 



i. 557 

 Norway, rise of land in, ii. 195 

 Norwich once situated on an arm of the 



sea, i. 516 



Nova Scotia, distinct deposits of red 

 marl in, i. 114 



• rise of tides in, i. 560 



Nummulitic limestone, climate of, i. 209 

 Nuovo, Monte, internal talus of, i. 616 

 Nyoe, new island formed in 1783, ii. 49 



BI, Kiver, fossils on shores of, i. 181 



Obliquity of ecliptic, variation in, 

 1. 282 



Obelisks shaken by Calabrian earth- 

 quake, ii. 119 



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Obydos, valley of Amazons, freshwater* 



bivalve shells of, i. 467 

 Ocean, great depth of, a cause of slow 



geographical change, i. 265 



— Primaeval, Lamarck's belief in, ii. 

 254 



Ocidina Mrtella, ii. 582 



Odoardi on tertiary strata of Italy, i. 

 62 



(Eninghen, Upper Miocene flora of, i. 

 200 



Oersted on electro-magnetism, ii. 230 

 Ogygian deluge, i. 593 



Old red sandstone, climate of fossils of, 

 i. 230 



Olivi on deposits in Adriatic, i. 426 



— fossil remains, i. 34 



Omar on ' Retreat of the Sea,' i. 28 

 Oolite fossils, climate of, 218 

 Orang-outang, Lamarck's theory of 



change of to man, ii. 257 

 Orbigny, M. A. de, on Pampcan mud, i. 



131 



Orbit of the earth, how far excentric, 

 and why, i. 269 



Organic life, progressive development 

 of, i. 147 



remains, controversy as to origin of, 

 i. 34 



— imbedding of, in subaqueous de- 

 posits, ii. 524 



■ — imbedded in volcanic formations, 

 ii. 509 



— world-changes in the, ii. 244 

 Organisms, eventual success of higher, 



ii. 489 

 Oriental cosmogony, i. 6 

 * Origin of Species,' by Darwin, effect of 



its publication, ii. 281 

 Orkney Islands, waste of, i. 507 

 Otaheite. See Tahiti. 

 Ovid, sketch of Pythagorean doctrines, 



i. 17 



Owen, Professor, on British fossil mam- 

 malia and birds, i. 159 



— theory of progression, i. 155 



— Polar ichthyosaurus, i. 219 



— sub-classes of mammalia, i. 165 

 cited, i. 214, 219 

 on teeth of mammoth, i. 187 



— Parthenogenesis, ii. 291 



— Ichthyopterygia, ii. 478 



— rank of Dryopithecus, ii. 483 

 homologous structure of man 



and ape, li. 485 



— cerebral classification of verte- 



brata, ii. 486 



— bones of turtles, ii. 573 



— extinction of the Dodo, ii. 457 



— geographical relationship of 

 fossil to living mammalia, ii, 334 



