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INDEX. 



ATJS 



Austen. See Godwin-Austen. 

 Australia, animals of, 159, 163 

 Auvergne, calcareous springs of, 399 

 Auvergne, carbonated springs of, 411 



— Desmarest on volcanos of, 72 



— red sandstone of, distinct in age from Eng- 

 lish, 114 



Ava, fossils of, 43 



Avernus, Lake, 602 



Avicenna on cause of mountains, 27 



Axis of the earth's orbit, variation in the 



minor, 269 



— changes in obliquity of earth's, 282 



Axmouth, landslip, drawing of, 537 

 Azores, icebergs drifted to, 246 



— siliceous springs of, 408 



— volcanic region of the, 591 



BACHE, Professor, on width of Gulf- 

 stream, 244 

 Bachmann cited, 210 

 Baffin's Bay, icebergs in, 246 

 Bagnes, flood in the valley of, 352 

 Bagneres de Luchon, hot springs of, 395 

 Baker, Colonel, on artificial canals in India, 



477 

 Bakewell on Niagara Falls, 361 



Baldassari on Siennese fossils, 57 



Balize, salt springs in the island of the, 



450 



Baltic, ice-drifted rocks of, 385 



— waste of coast on, 556 



Banks of Mississippi, 443 



Barnham, Dr., on Ictis being same as St. 



Michael's Mount, 542 

 Barrancos of Somma, 634 

 Basalts, early opinions on, 71 

 Bates on delta of the Amazons, 466 



landslips of the Amazons, 469 



Bath, thermal waters of, 398 



Baths, hot, of San Filippo, 402 



Bayfield, Admiral, on ice-borne boulders, 366, 



depth of Lake Superior, 421 



Beaches, raised sea, 290 



Beachey Head, landslip at 529 



Beaumont, M. E. de, on change of level m 



Holland, 531 . , „ 

 hypothesis of elevation craters, 



J*2 _ _ on moving sand-dunes of Holland, 



514 

 mud filling laguues, 424 



rents in volcanos, 61 4 



origin of mountain-chains, 121, 



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direction of mountain-ranges, 



130 



Beche, Sir H. See De la Beche. 



Belcher, Sir Edward, on polar ichthyosaurus, 



219 



Bell-rock, stones thrown up in storms on, 



509, 



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Bengal, Bay of, depth and deposits of, 483— 



485 



Bies Bosch formed, 552 



Birds, fossil, as bearing on theory of pro- 

 gression, 157 



Bischoff, Professor, on carbonic acid in cra- 

 ters, 412 



Biscoe, Captain, on cold of antarctic regions, 



242 

 Bitumen in Niagara limestone, 415 



Bituminous springs, 414 



' Bluffs ' of the Mississippi, 462 



Bolgen, blocks in flysch of, 210 



Bonelli, Professor, cited, 199 



1 Bore,' tidal wave called the, 560 



Borings, Artesian. See Artesian Wells. 



Bosphorus, deluges on shores of, 593 



Botzen, stone-capped pillars of, 335 



Boue, M., cited, 391 

 Boulders drifted by ice, 385 



— stranded by ice, 384 



Boussingault, M., on volcanos in Andes, 582 

 Bowen, Lieutenant, on boulders in ice, 365 

 Boyle on agitation of sea, 39 

 Bracini on Vesuvian eruptions, 61S 

 Brahmapootra, sediment brought down by, 



483 



— delta of the, 470—483 

 Brahminical doctrines, 7—12 

 Brander on Hampshire fossils, 64 

 Brandt on Wiljui rhinoceros, 183 

 Bridlington, marine arctic shells of, 197 



— beds, possible date of, 297 

 Brieslak on Vesuvius, 619 



Briggs, Mr., on water-borings in Egypt, 391 



Brighton, waste of cliffs of, 530 



Brine springs, 410 



Bristol Channel, currents in, 500 



Brittany, waste of coast of, 547 



Brocchi cited, 425, 426 



— on fossil conchology, 31 



Broderip, Mr., on opossum of Stonesfield, 



160 

 Brongniart, Ad., cited, 218 

 on climate of Carboniferous period, 226 



Bronze and stone ages, climate of, 176 



Buch. See Von Buch. 



Buckland, Dr., on Indian fossils, 10 



landslip near Axmouth, 538 



Buffon, his theory of the earth, 57 

 Bunsen, Mr. R., on mineral springs of Ice- 

 land, 408 

 Burrampooter. See Brahmapootra. 



Burnes, Sir A., on colour of rivers, 310 

 Burnet, his theory of the earth, 47 

 Butler, his satire on Burnet, 47 



pALCAREOTJS springs, 399 



Vv — precipitates, 404 



Calcutta, Artesian well at, 478 



Caldera of the Atrio, 634 



Campania, populous in spite of volcanic erup 



tions, 654 





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