INDEX. 



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the 



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associated 



134 

 ■iou of, 230 



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ian delude, 



id Pompeii, 



$ near, 203 

 ,569 



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, of cli& in, 

 isothermals, 



the eartb in 



516 



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Duncan, Dr., on West Indian corals, 254 

 Panes, hills of blown sand, 514 

 Punwich, destruction of, by the sea, 519 

 Dwarfs Tower, near Viesch, 312 



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EARTH, antiquity of the, 32 

 Earth's axis of rotation, hypothesis of 



change in, 301 

 Earth-pillars formed by rain, 335 



— — in Switzerland, 340 



diagram of formation of, 337 



Earth's primitive heat, gradual diminution 



of, 303 

 Earthquake at Yisp destroyed earth-pillars, 



311 

 Eccles church buried in blown sand, 513 



views of, taken in 1839, 1862, 514 



Ecliptic, variation in obliquity of, affecting 



climate, 282 

 Edmonstone Island, 476 

 Egerton, Rev. W. H., on Indian fossils, 213 

 Egyptian cosmogony, 12, 13 

 Ehrenberg on infusoria in tuff, 615 

 ashes enveloping Pompeii, 644 



Eifel, hot springs of the, 396 



Elephants, carcasses of, when imbedded in 



ice, 29a 

 Elephant, covering of fur on, 184 



— vegetation required for food of the, 190 

 Elevation craters, hypothesis of, 633 

 Elsa, travertin formed by the, 400 

 Embankments of Po and Adige, 423 

 England, waste of west coast of, 546 

 Eocene fauna and flora, climate of, 204 



— period, ice-action in, 209 



map showing geographical changes 



since the, 251 

 Epochs geological, comparative duration of, 



300 

 Epomeo, Mount, in Ischia, 601 

 Equatorial current, course of, 498 

 Equivocal generation, theory of, 22 

 Erie, currents of Lake, 561 

 Erratics, absence of, in equatorial regions, 



109 



— and ice-action, 108 



Eruption of Monte Nuovo, 603—615 



Escher, von der Linth, on flood in the Val 



de Eagnes, 353 



Habkeren blocks, 210 



glacier motion, 370 



Eschricht on migration of Greenland whales, 

 286 



Essex, inroads of sea on coast of, 521 

 Estuaries, silting up of, 516 



— formation of, 566 



Etna, rent made in cone of, 57S 

 Euphrates, delta of, advancing rapidly, 484 

 Europe, Southern, volcanic system of, 596 

 Evaporation, currents caused by, 496 

 Everest, on climate of fossil elephant, 180 

 ■ on earthy matter brought down by Gan- 

 ges, 480 



FOR 



Excavation of valleys, 356 



Excentricity, computations of variations of, 



292 

 — of the earth's orbit, 269 

 Eyre Sound, glacier of, 208 



"THALCONER, Dr., on peat near Calcutta, 475 

 _L range of elephant, 1 86 



mammalia of Siwalik Hiils, 201 



Falkland Isles, fauna of, 220 



Falloppio on fossil concretions, 33 



Palls of Niagara, 358 



Faluns of Touraine, 200 



Faraday, Mr., on water of Geysers, 409 



re gelation, 373 



Parquharson on formation of ground-ice, 367 



— Rev. J., on Scotch floods, 350 

 Faults, gradual formation of, 120 

 Featherstonhaugh on Red River swamps, 45 

 Felspar, decomposition of, 410 

 Fergusson,Mr., on * the Swatch of no ground,' 



476 



formation of j heels, 478 



Perns, preponderance of, in Coal period, 226 



Ferruginous springs, 410 



Fife, destruction of coast in, 509 



Fish, Fluviatile fossil, of Vicksburg, 464 



— fossil, their bearing on progression, 153 



— number of British species in Devonian, 154 



— found alive in Artesian wells, 393 

 Fitton, Dr., on English Geology. 61 

 Flamborough Head, waste of, 509 

 Fleming, Dr., on fossil elephant, 187 

 range of animals as proofs of climate, 



178 

 supposed evidence of former tropical 



climate, 215 

 Floods by bursting of lakes, 454 



— of Scotland, 349 



N. America, 351 



Bagnes valley, 352 



Tivoli, 354 



Flysch, blocks enclosed in, 209 

 Folkestone, encroachments of sea at, 52S 

 Forbes, J. D., on motion of glaciers, 370 



rainfall in Norway, 330 



thickness of lava in Pompeii, 641 



snow-line in northern hemisphere, 



240 

 heat of Gulf-stream, 245 



fluid lava, 625 



— Edward, on climate of the drift, 193 



exceptional species, 150 



extension of arctic fauna, 297 



present distribution of animals and 



plants proving a glacial period, 198 

 Forchhammer, Dr., on boulder drifted by 



ice, 335 

 Forests submerged, 462 — 544 



whether by attraction of ice, 290 



Forshey on curves of Mississippi, 443 



— on area of Mississippi delta, 458 

 mud-island of Mississippi, 450 



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