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Index. 



MER 



Merionethshire, glaciation of, 406 



Mersey ice-grooves, 400 



water of, 554 



Metamorphic rocks and theory of, 



40-54 

 Microlestis antiquus, and Mendip 



Hills, 163 

 Middle Oolites, 183-186 



Hebrides, 199 



Midland of England, character of, 



315 



Millepore bed, Yorkshire, 194 

 Millstone grit, 120 

 escarpments of, Derbyshire, 



&c., 324, 325 



waters of, 554 



Miocene Alpine strata, deposition 



and disturbance of, 508 



and Pliocene, 352-360 



epoch, 259-269 



epoch, mountains of, 263 



fauna fragmentary, 267 



fauna probable in British area, 

 264, 267-269, 274, 275 



flora and fauna, 353-357, 456 



flora and insects, Switzerland, 

 263 



floras, northern types of, 263, 

 264, 268 



lake of Khine valley and fauna, 

 268 



lakes, Switzerland, 263 



rocks, and volcanos, 354- 

 356 



strata, Bovey Tracey, 260 

 Mississippi, area of drainage, 



560 

 Mo-el Tryfan shell-beds and 



moraines, 414-416 

 Moraines, 364-369 

 Moraine profonde, 395 

 Moselle, and tablelands of, 499, 



525, 526, 533, 535 

 Mountain chains, old glaciers of, 



375 

 Mountains of Europe, of pre- and 



post-Wealden epoch, 210, 211 

 Mud and clay, how formed, 10 

 Mull, Miocene flora of, 264 

 Muschelkalk, 152 



OCH 



NANT-FFRANCON glaciers, 

 407, 408, 423 



Nant-Gwynant glacier, 422 

 Neocomian strata, 201, 212 

 Newberry, Dr., on American lakes, 



454 

 Newcastle coal-field, 126 



on-Tyne, glacial, 387 



New Bed Series, 152, 154, 308, 309, 



330, 331 



and Lias plains, 333 



Marl, fossils of, 155, 156 



and Lower Lias, transition 



to, 160-165 

 Sandstone and Marl, 152- 



158 



New Zealand, glaciers of, 375 

 Niagara Falls and denudation, 31 

 Nith and Annan, Permian breccias, 



142-143 

 Nordenskiold, Professor, on lakes 



of Finland, 445 

 North America, glaciation of, 372 



table-land of, 499 



Northampton, Inferior Oolite and 



Sands of, 192 

 Northamptonshire to Yorkshire, 



Lower Oolites of, 191-200 

 Northern Counties, Old Red Sand- 

 stone of, 110 

 Northmore, Mr., and Kent's Hole, 



476 

 North Staffordshire, Cheshire, and 



Lancashire coal-fields, 125, 126 

 Permian strata, 142 



Wales, coal-fields, 124 



glaciers of, 401-411, 419-428 



volcanic rocks of, 75 



of England, glaciated, 382 

 Northumberland coal-field, 127 

 Norwich Crag, and fossils of, 270, 



275, 276 

 Norway and Scotland, fiords of, 



448 

 Nottingham, Derbyshire, and 



Yorkshire coal-field, 126 







,CEAN currents, 378 



Ochil and Campsie Hills, 528 



