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INDEX. 



MUR 



PO 



Murchison, Sir ~R», on extension of Siberia, 



188 

 marine strata of Devonian, 320 



travertin of Tivoli, 407 



Murray, Mr., on Silver Pits and Dogger 



Bank, 569 

 Myrmecobiusfasciatus, 159 



NAPLES, coast of, raised by an eruption, 

 44 



— volcanic district of, 599 

 Needles of the Isle of Wight, 531 

 Neolithic era, climate of, 177 



— period, possible date of, 295 

 Neptunists and Vulcanists, 71 



Nero, Francesco del, on eruption of Monte 



Nuovo, 611 

 Newbold, Lieutenant, on mud of Nile, 431 

 New Madrid, sunk country of, 456 



— red sandstone, various ages of, 114 



— Zealand, glaciers of, 211, 224 



ferns in, 224 



Niagara, recession of Tails of, 359 



— view of the Palls of, 353 

 Nile mud, borings made in, 435 



— delta of, 431 



Nomenclature, geological defects of, 115 

 Norfolk, waste of coast, 511 

 North Cape, rise of land at, 133 

 Northern hemisphere, former climate of, 174 



extreme climates of the, 276 



Northstrand, destruction of, by the sea, 557 

 Norwich once situated on an arm of the sea, 



516 

 Nova Scotia, distinct deposits of red marl in, 



114 



rise of tides in, 560 



Nummulitic limestone, climate of, 209 

 Nuovo, Monte, internal talus of, 616 



ABI, River, fossils on shores of, 181 

 ^ Obliquity of ecliptic, variation in, 282 

 Obydos, freshwater bivalve shells of, 467 

 Ocean, great depth of, a cause of slow geo- 

 graphical change, 265 

 Odoardi on tertiary strata of Italy, 62 

 (Eninghen, Upper Miocene flora of, 200 

 Ogygian deluge, 593 



Old red sandstone, climate of fossils of, 230 

 Olivi on deposits in Adriatic, 426 



fossil remains, 34 



Omar on ' Iletreat of the Sea,' 28 



Oolite fossils, climate of, 218 



Orbigny, M. A. de, on Pampean mud, 131 



Orbit of the earth, how far excentric, and 

 why, 269 



Organic life, progressive development of, 147 

 Organic remains, controversy as to origin of, 

 34 



Oriental cosmogony, 6 



Orkney Islands, waste of, 507 



Ovid, sketch of Pythagorean doctrines, 17 



Owen, Professor, on teeth of mammoth, 1S7 



maui- 



Owen, Professor, on British foreign 

 malia and birds, 159 



theory of progression, 155 



Polar ichthyosaurus, 219 



sub-classes of mammalia, 165 



cited, 214, 219 



PALEOLITHIC, or older stone age, cli- 

 - 1 - mate of, 177,193 



— period, possible date of, 296 

 Palestine shaken by earthquakes, 596 

 Palissy on animal origin of fossils, 35 

 Pallas on Caspian Sea, m 



— on fossil bones of Siberia, 181—183 



— on mountains of Siberia, QQ 



Palmer, Mr., on shingle beaches, 531 



Panama, former submergence of isthmus of, 

 254 



— tides in bay of, 496 

 Papyrus rolls in Pompeii, 650 

 Paradise, Burnet on seat of, 48 

 Paris, Artesian well near, 390 



Paroxysmal energy of ancient causes con- 

 troverted, 145 



Peat-bed, submerged, containing E. primi- 



genius, 545 

 Peat in delta of Ganges, 478 

 Penzance, loss of land near, 543 

 Perihelion, its effect on climate, 275 

 Permian fossils imply warm climate, 222 



— period, supposed ice-action in, 222 

 Pengelly, Mr., on waste of Devonshire coast, 



538 



history of St. Michael's Mount, 542 



Pennant on migration of animals, 179 

 Perry, Alexis, on volcanic eruptions, 588 

 Peru, volcanos in, 581 

 Peruvian tradition of a flood, 11 

 Petroleum springs, 413 

 Pl\ascolotherium Bucklandi, 160 

 Phillippi, Dr. A., on gradual change of species 



in Sicily, 312 

 Phillips, Professor, on waste of Yorkshire 



coast, 510 

 Phlegrsean Fields, volcanos of, 608, 616 

 Pietra Mala, inflammable gas of, 18 

 Pini on height and size of Monte Nuovo, 607 

 Pitch-lake of Trinidad, 414 

 Plants, fossil, their bearing on progression, 



148 



of Carboniferous period, 224 



1 Plastic virtue' of earth, theory of, 20, 40 

 Playfair's illustrations of Hutton, 78, 83 

 Pla'yfair on formation of Lake of Geneva, 420 

 Pliny on new islands in Mediterranean, 25 



— the Elder, killed on Vesuvius, 603 



— the Younger, on Vesuvius, 603 

 Pliocene strata, climate of, 198 

 Plot on organic remains, 40 

 Pluche on the deluge, 50 



Plutarch on doctrines of Anaximander, 15 

 Plutonic rocks, texture and origin of, 142 

 Po, River, frequently shifts its course, 423 

 embankment of the, 423 



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Pratt, Arc 



cap. 291 

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Prejudices 



99 



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613 



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