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INDEX. 



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Po, delta of, 423 



Poisson on heat received by earth in passin 



through space, 302 

 Polar land, now abnormal, 217 

 Pompeii, infusorial beds covering, 644 



— mass enveloping, 640 



— section of the mass enveloping, 642 



— objects preserved in, 645—647 



— skeletons buried in, 648 



Pont Gibaud, calcareous springs near, 400 

 ponzi, Professor, on fossil mammoths of 



Monte Sacro, 186 

 Port Hudson Bluff, buried forest in, 462 

 Portland, fossil ammonites of, 42 



— Isle of, wasting away, 533 



Potnocites Grantonii, monocotyledon in the 



coal, 149 



Pratt, Archdeacon, on effect of polar ice- 

 cap, 291 



Precession, four cycles of, how divided, 274 



— climate of successive phases of, 280 



— of the Equinoxes, 274 



Prejudices of man as an inhabitant of land, 



99 

 Prestwich, Mr., on Artesian wells, 389 



— on climate of drift, 192 



Prevost, M, C, on rents formed by upheaval, 



613 

 Thylacotherium, 159 



Pritchard, Dr., on Egyptian cosmogony, 12 

 Progression, theory of, bearing of fossil ani- 

 mals on, 150 



plants on, 148 



mollusca on, 151 



fish on, 153 



reptiles on, 155 



birds on, 157 



mammalia on, 158 



Progressive development of organic life, 146 — 



173 

 Purbeck, peninsula of, wasting away, 533 



— mammalia, 161 

 Pythagoras, system of, 16 



ATJADRTJMANA, fossil, 164 



^°i Queenstown, ravine of Niagara near, 

 359, 361 



Quirini on diluvial theory, 39 

 Quito, volcanos of, 582 



' "DACES/ tidal currents so called, 572 

 ■*■* Radiation impeded by snow, 284 

 Rafts of the Mississippi, 444 

 Rain, action of, 329 



— fall of, in England, Norway and India, 

 329, 330 



basin of Ganges, 330 



' Eastern Bengal, 330 



Rainfall, variations in average, 329 

 Rainless regions, 332 

 Rain-prints, recent, 333 

 Raised beaches. 290 



RIV 



Ramsay, Professor, on Miocene ice-action* 

 206 



foreign matter in Bath springs, 398 



ice-action in Permian times, 222 



of Devonian times, 230 



Raspe on new islands, 19, 62 



basalt, 71 



Ravine excavated in Georgia, 344 

 Rawlinsori, Colonel, on delta of Tigris, 484 

 Ray, his physico-theological theory, &c, 45, 



46 



Reculver cliff, action of sea on, 523 



— church, views of in 1781 and 1834, 523, 524 

 Redman on changes of English coast, 528 

 Redmann, Dr., on snow-capped mountain on 



the equator, 248 



Red marl, supposed universality of, 114 



— River, new lakes formed by, 454 

 drift wood in, 444 



juncture of, with Mississippi, 457 



— Sea, level of, 496 



Refrigeration, Leibnitz's theory of, 40 

 Revelation, theory of, applied to glaciers, 373 

 Reindeer period, possible date of, 295 



Reinhardt on migration of Greenland whales, 



286 



Rennell on oceanic currents, 495, 499 



Ganges, 471, 473 



the recipient of the gulf- water, 244 



velocity of Plate River, 497 



Reptile life, how far affected by absence of 

 mammalia, 220 



Reptiles, absence of, in the southern hemi- 

 sphere, 219 



— abundance of, implying warm climate, 219 



— as bearing on progression, 155 



— of the Chalk, 214 

 coal, 229 



* Miocene strata 200 



Rescobie, swelling up of a mound in Loch of, 



453 



Reynauld on climate affected by excentri- 

 city, 270 



Rhine, inroad of sea at mouths of the, 548 



— changes in the arms of the, 549 



— its delta, 550 

 Rhinoceros, fossil of Siberia, 183 



Rhone, deposits of, at confluence with Arve, 

 489 



— delta of, in Lake of Geneva, 417 



— marine delta of, 427 

 Richards, Captain, cited, 461 

 Richardson, Sir J., on animals buried in 



drift snow, 189 



isothermal lines, 236 



Riddell on sediment of Mississippi, 45S 

 Rink on fossil trees in arctic latitudes, 203 



— on evaporation of snow in Greenland, 287 



ice-streams in Baffin's Bay, 288 



Ritter, H., on doctrines of Anaximander, 16 

 River-ice, carrying power of, 363 



River and currents, comparative transport- 

 ing power of, 570 

 Rivers, action of, 343 



