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Progression, theory of, bearing of fossil 



mammalia on, i. 158 

 Progressive development of organic life, 



i. 146-173 



held by Lamarck, ii. 257 



in man chiefly cerebral, ii. 485, 



487 

 Protean or polymorplious genera, ii. 



• 327 



Provinces of animals coincident witli 

 marked human races, ii. 473 



- — Zoological. See Kegions. 



Pumice, eggs of MoUusca transported 

 in, ii. 376 



Pumiceous strata of White Island, ii. 68 



Purbeck, peninsula of, wasting away, i. 

 533 

 oolitic mammalia of, i. 161 



Puzzuoli, marine upraised deposit at, ii. 

 165 



temple of Serapis near, ii. 165 

 section of marine strata near, ii. 167 



Pythagoras, system of, i. 16 



nUADEUMAKA, fossil, 164 



483 



gradational extinct forms of, ii. 



V 



Quadrupeds. See Mammalia. 

 Quaggas, migrations of, ii. 358 

 Quatrefages on varieties of silkworms, 



ii. 297 

 Queenstown, ravine of Niagara near, i, 



359, 361 

 Quirini on diluvial theory, i. 39 

 Quito, volcanos of, i. 582 



earthquakes of 1797, ii. 112, 159 



RABBITS, Peral, modified in Porto 

 Santo, ii. 313 

 * Eaces,' tidal currents so called, i. 572 

 ■ — antiquity of some artificially formed, 

 ii. 282 



of man, their distribution, ii. 464 

 distribution of human, coincident 

 with zoological provinces, ii. 473 

 fertility when crossed of domestic, 

 ii. 305 



tendency to herd apart of domestic, 

 ii. 311 

 Eadiation impeded by snow, i. 284 

 Eailles, Sir S., on earthquakes in Java, 



ii. 105 

 Eafts of the Mississippi, i. 444 

 — floating, carrying animals, ii. 361 

 Eain, action of, i. 329 



fall of, in England, Norway, and 

 India, i. 329, 330 



basin of Ganges, i. 330 



— — . — Eastern Bengal, i. 350 



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Eainfall, variations in average, i. 329 

 Eainless regions, i. 332 

 Eain-prints, recent, i. 333 

 Eaised beaches, i. 290 

 Eamsay, Professor, on Miocene ice- 

 action, i. 206 . 



i. 398 

 i. 222 



foreign matter in Bath springs, 



ice-action in Permian times, 



of Dev^onian times, i, 230 

 Easpe on new islands, i. 19, 62 



basalt, i. 71 



Eat, introduced by man into America, 



ii. 367 

 Eats, migrations of, ii. 357 

 Eavine excavated in Georgia, i. 344 

 Eawlinson, Colonel, on delta of Tigris, 



i. 484 



Eay, his physico-theological theory, &c., 

 i. 45 



Eeaumur on multiplication of insects, 



ii. 439 

 Eecapitulation of causes of earthquakes 



and volcanos, ii. 240 

 Eeculver cliff, action of sea on, ii. 523 



— church, views of in 1781 and 1834, i. 

 523, 524 



Eecupero on flood in Val del Bove, ii. 



37, 39 

 Eed marl, supposed universality of, i, 



114 

 Eiver, new lakes formed by, i. 454 



■ drift wood in, i. 444 



— juncture of, with Mississippi, i. 



457 



— Sea, level of, i. 496 



Ehrenberg on corals ofj ii. 583- 



591 



— Indian, his unity of type throughout 

 America, ii. 473 



Eedman on changes of English coast, i. 



528 

 Eedmann, Dr., on snow-capped moun- 

 tain on the equator, i. 248 

 Eeefs, formation of barrier, ii. 601 

 Eefrigcration, Leibnitz's theory of, i. 40 

 Eegelation, theory of, applied to glaciers, 



i. 373 

 Eegions, botanical, ii. 382 



of mammalia and birds, ii. 335 



neotropical of mammalia, ii. 335 



nearctic of mammalia, ii. 340 



— — Palsearctic of mammalia, ii. 341 



■ Ethiopian of mammalia, ii. 343 



Indian of mammalia, ii. 346 



Australian of mammalia, ii. 347 ' 



' Eeign of Law,' by Duke of Argyll, criti- 

 cisms on Darwin in the, ii. 489 



Eeindeer period, possible date of, i. 

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