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INDEX. 





CG5 



MAC 



MacClelland, Dr., on volcanic line in Kay of 



.Bengal, 590 

 McClintock, Captain, oolitic fossils near the 



pole, 218 

 Mackenzie River, floods of, 188 

 M'Nab, Mr. J., his sketch of an iceberg, 77, 



SSI 

 Madrid, New. See New Madrid. 



Magellan, Straits of, tides in, 493 

 Magnesia deposited by springs, 397 

 Magnetism, solar, 303 

 Mahomet, his cosmogony, 28 

 Majoli on volcanic ejection of shells, 35 

 Mallet, Captain, on Trinidad petroleum, 414 

 Mammalia, absence of, how far affecting rep- 

 tile life, 220 



— fossil, as bearing on progression, 158 



— of Mississippi loess, 465 



— successive appearance of higher, 163 

 Mammifer fossil of trias, 158 

 Mammoth, climate of the, 178 



— Siberian, 181 



— found fossil on Yenesei, 1866, 1S5 



— probable food of, 187 



Man, introduction of, and its effects, 167—173 



— durability of bones of, 166 



Manetho, 92 



Map of changes on the coast of Holland, &c, 



549 

 the Ealtic, 557 



Ganges and Brahmapootra, 471 



— — isothermal lines, 239 

 Mississippi delta, 448 



— - Siberia, 182 



volcanic district of Naples, 559—579 



volcanos from Philippine Islands to Ben- 

 gal, 5S6 



— showing position of mud-lumps of the 



Mississippi, 449 

 changes in geography since the Eocene 



period, 252 



present unequal distribution of land 



and sea, 258 



— ideal, of normal distribution of land and 



sea, 263 

 Maps, ideal, showing position of land and 



sea, which might produce extremes of heat 



and cold, 266 

 Marine fossils, Greek theories as to, 19 

 Marjelen See, or glacier-lake, 377 

 Mattioli on fossil organic shapes, 33 

 Medial moraines, 374 



Mediterranean, depth of, at Nile delta, 431 



— depths, temperature, and currents of, 562 

 — - level of, compared to Red Sea, 496 



— section of basins of, 562 



Meech on increase of heat by shortening of 

 minor axis, 273 



— on solar radiation, 284 



Megna River, arm of Brahmapootra, 470 

 Melville Island, carboniferous fossils in, 225 

 Memphis, computation of growth of Nile 

 mud at, 435 



Menu's institutes, 7, 8 



HXTR 



Mer do Glace, width of, 370 

 Messina, tide in Straits of, 493 

 Motamorphic rocks, texture and origin of, 142 

 Mexico, volcanos of, 584 

 Meyer, H. Von, on reptiles of Trias, 219 

 Michell, Rev. J., on earthquakes, 61 

 Microlestes, discovery of, in Upper Trias, 161 

 Middendorf, M., cited, 225 



— — on Siberian mammoth, 184—188 

 Milford Haven, rise of tides at, 494 

 Millennium, 32 



Miller, Dr. W. A., on spectrum analysis of a 



variable star, 303 

 Mineral, character cf strata variations in, 309 



— springs, ingredients of, 397 



Minerals of Vesuvius, 632 



Miocene fossil trees in arctic latitudes, 203 

 —- Lower, strata of, 202 



— Upper, warm climate of, 199 

 ice-action in, 205 



Mississippi, basin and delta of, 440 



— ' bluffs' of the, 462 



— colour of, caused by sediment, 310 



— diagram of banks of, 443 



— sediment carried down by, 458 



— curves of the, 442 



— cuts-off of the, 346 



— delta and alluvial plain of, 457 

 growth of, 461 



— section of valley of, 464 



— Valley, loess of, 463 



— mud-lumps at mouths of, 447 



— sunk country of, 456 



— velocity of current of, 441 



Moel Tryfaen, recent marine shells on, 195 

 Mollusca, fossil, as bearing on theory of pro- 

 gression, 151 

 Moluccas, volcanos of the, 585 

 Monkeys, grades of Eocene and Miocene, 164 

 Monte Bolca, fossil fish of, 65 



— Nuovo, formation of, 606 



— Sacro, fossil mammoths of, 186 



— Somma, small range of dikes in, 636 

 Montlosier on volcanos of Auvergne, 73 

 Moore, J. C, calculations of climatal effects 



of excentricity, 293 



on AVest Indian corals, 254 



effect of polar ice-cap, 291 



Moraines of glaciers explained, 374 



Morlot, M., on subsidence of bed of Adriatic, 



425 



two glacial periods, 196 



Moro Lazzaro, his geological views, 51 — 56 



Mountain-chains, doctrine of sudden rise of> 



121—131 

 upheaval and subsidence of, 131 — 138 



Mozambique current, course of, 498 



warming effects of, 247 



Mud-lumps of the Mississippi delta, 447 



— views of, 450, 451 



Murchison, Sir R., on Hartz Mountain, 71 



map of Russia, 251 



on Habkeren blocks, 209 



cited, 112, 251, 253 



