.GENEEAL INDEX. 



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plants of Australia and Europe com- 

 pared, ii. 384 

 different parts of altered by man, ii. 



298 

 effects of increase of one species in 



exterminating others, ii. 447 

 freshwater, buried in marine de- 

 posits, ii, 565 

 fertilised by insects have coloured 



corolla, ii. 309 



hermaphrodite, often not self-ferti- 

 lised, ii. 309 



Himalayan flowering, ii. 319 



hybridisation of, ii. 306 



imbedding of in subaqueous deposits, 



ii. 525 



mineralisation of, ii. 532 



number of known species of, ii. 270 

 number of species known to ancients, 



ii. 381 

 provinces of birds applicable to, ii. 



385 



stable and unstable genera of, ii. 282 

 fossil in tuffs of Etna, ii. 6 

 imbedding of marine, ii. 571 

 provinces of marine and dispersion 



of, ii. 386, 391 

 relationship of Madeiran to Europe, 



ii. 417 



— wild hybrid, ii. 324 



'Plastic virtue' of earth, theory of, i. 20, 

 40 



Platyrrhine, or New-world monkeys, ii. 

 331 



Playfair's illustrations of Hutton, i. 78, 

 83 



Plajfair on formation of Lake of Ge- 

 neva, i. 420 



— change of level of Baltic, ii. 183 

 Pliny on new islands in Mediterranean, 



i. 25 



the Elder, killed on Vesuvius, i. 603 

 the Younger, on A^esuvius, i. 603 



combustible nature of our planet, ii. 

 234 



Pliocene strata, climate of, i. 198 

 Plot on organic remains, i. 40 

 Pluche on the deluge, i. 50 



Plutarch on doctrines of Anaximander, 

 i. 15 



Plutonic rocks, texture and orimn of, i. 

 142 



Po, Eiver, frequently shifts its course, 

 i. 423 



embankment of the, i. 423 



— delta of, i. 423 



■Poisson, M., on heat received by earth in 

 passing through space, i. 302 



— consolidation of the rfobe, ii. 



207 *• ■ 



Polar land, now abnormal, i. 247 



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Pollen of plants, prepotency of natural 

 over foreign, ii. 310 



Pompeii, infusorial beds covering, i. 644 



— mass enveloping, i. 640 



— section of the mass envelopinc;, i. 

 642 



objects preserved in, i. 645-647 

 skeletons buried in, i. 648 



Pont Gibaud, calcareous springs near, i. 

 400 



Ponzi, Professor, on fossil mammoths of 



Monte Sacro, i. 186 

 Porites clavaria, ii. 582 



Port Hudson Bluff, buried forest in, i. 

 462 



Eoyal, Jamaica, subsidence of,ii. 160 

 buried houses of, ii. 553 

 Portland, fossil ammonites of, i. 42 



Isle of, wasting away, i. 533 

 Porto Santo, Madeira, denudation of 

 rocks of, ii. 425 



number of landshells peculiar to, 



li. 423 



Pothocites Gmntonii, monocotyledon in 

 the coal, i. 149 



Pottery, absence of, in caves ofEeindeer 

 period, ii. 559 



in upraised marine strata, Sardinia, 

 ii. 563 



Pratt, Archdeacon, on effect of polar ice- 

 cap, i. 291 



Precession, four cycles of, how divided, 

 i. 274 



— climate" of successive phases of, i. 280 

 of the Equinoxes, i. 274 



— as testing thickness of earth's crust, 

 ii. 203, 240 



Prejudices of man as an inhabitant of 

 land, i. 99 



Prentice, Lieut., on coral reef of Mal- 

 dives, ii. 583 



Prestwich, Mr., on Artesian w^ells, i. 

 389 



on climate of drift, i. 192 



Prevost, M. Constant, on rents formed 

 by upheaval, i. 613 



— Thylacotherium, i. 159 



— Graham Island, ii. 60 



his division of geological 

 causes, ii. 495 



on fossils in caves, ii. 520 



Prichard, Dr., on absence of mammalia 



in islands, ii. 411 



Egyptian cosmogony, i. 12 

 Progression, theory of, bearing of fossil 



animals on, i. 150 



— plants on, i, 148 



— moUusca on, i. 151 



— fish on, i. 153 



— reptiles on, i. 155 



— birds on, i. 157 



