﻿INDEX TO THE PROCEEDINGS. 



Award of the Wollaston Medal to Prof. 

 Sedgwick, xix. 



Aymestry rock, fish-remains in the, 267. 



Ayrshire, Mr. Salter on the Silurian 

 fossils of, 170. 



, Sir R. I. Murchison on the Silu- 

 rian rocks of, 137. 



Baggy Point, the raised beach at, no- 

 ticed by Mr. Austen, 126 ; noticed by 

 Sir R. I. Murchison, 368. 



Baiera gracilis, 182. 



Balmae Head, Sir R. I. Murchison on 

 the upper Silurian rocks of, 158. 



Barrande, M. Joachim, award of the 

 Donation Fund to, xxi. 



, on the Silurian fauna, noticed, 



xxiii, lii. 



Basalt of Ardtun Head, the Duke of 

 Argyll on the, 94 ; compared with 

 that of Staffa, 101. 



Basement beds of the inferior oolite in 

 Gloucestershire, Rev. P. B. Brodie 

 on the, 208. 



Beaches, old raised, of Cornwall and 

 Devon, Mr. R. A. C. Austen on the, 

 127 ; Sir R. I. Murchison on the, 368. 



Beach, old, at Brighton, Mr. R. A. C. 

 Austen on the, 127 ; Sir R. I. Mur- 

 chison on the, 364. 



Beaumont, E. de, on the fossil plants 

 of Petit-Cceur, noticed, xlvi. 



Beckles, Mr. S. H., on supposed casts 

 of footprints in the Wealden, 117. 



Belgium, M. Delesse on the porphyry 

 of, 6. 



Beudant, M., notice of, xxv. 



Bigsby, Dr. J. J., on the erratics of 



Canada, 215. 

 Birds, absence of the remains of, in 



some recent deposits, noticed, lxii. 

 , coprolites of, Mr. Dana on the, 



noticed, lxi. 

 , foot-tracks of, in the trias of N. 



America, noticed, lix. 



, , in the Wealden, 117. 



, remains of, in the Stonesfield 



slate, noticed, lxii. 



, , in the Wealden, noticed,lxii. 



, tertiary remains of, noticed, lxvi. 



Bituminous shale with fish-remains, 



from the Deccan, 272. 

 Blainville, M., notice of, xxvi. 

 Bogang limestone, fossils of the, 170. 

 Bone-bed of the inferior oolite, 211. 

 at Folkestone, Mr. S. J. Mackie on 



the, 258. 



Bone-beds, Rev. P. B. Brodie on, 211. 



Boulder-clay of Caithness, Mr. J. Cleg- 

 horn on the, 200. 



of Cheshire, Mr. J. Trimmer on 



the, 201. 



Boulder-clay of Elgin, Capt. Brickenden 



on the, 289. 

 of Norfolk, Mr. J. Trimmer on 



the, 19. 



Bowerbank, Mr., on the Pterodactyles 



of the chalk, noticed, lxiii. 

 Brentford gravel, Mr. Trimmer on the, 



26, 33. 



Brickenden, Capt. L., on the occurrence 

 of the boulder-clay in the limestone 

 quarry at Linksfield, Elgin, 289. 



Brighton, Mr. Austen on the raised 

 beach at, 127. 



, the drift at, 363. 



, Sir R. I. Murchison on the raised 



beach at, 365, 396. 



, outlier of plastic clay at, 267, 396. 



Brodie, Rev. P. B., on the basement 

 beds of the inferior oolite, 208. 



, on the insects of the lias, noticed, 



Iviii. 



Brongniart, M. Adolphe, on the anthra- 

 cite plants of Petit-Cceur, noticed, 

 xliii, xlv ; on the coal flora, noticed, 

 xl ; on fossil plants, noticed, xxxv. 



Bronn, Prof., on fossil animals and 

 plants, noticed, xxxvi, li. 



Brora beds, Prof. E. Forbes on the, 107. 



Brussa, notice of the occurrence of an 

 earthquake at, 19. 



Bubble- prints, on recent mud, 241, 247. 



Bunbury, Mr. C. J. F., on some fossil 

 plants from the Jurassic strata of the 

 Yorkshire coast, 179; on the fossil 

 plants of Petit-Cceur, noticed, xlvi. 



Caithness, Mr. Cleghorn on the Till of, 

 200. 



Calais, Mr. Prestwich on the drift near, 

 274. 



Calamite, Mr. J. S. Dawes on the, 196. 

 Calamites arenaceus, Mr. C. J. F. Bun- 

 bury on, 190; noticed, xlv. 

 Beanii, 189. 



, Mr. Dawson on upright, 194. 



Calcareous grit, Mr. H. C. Sorby on 



the microscopical structure of the, 1. 

 Canada, Dr. J. J. Bigsby on the erratics 



of, 215. 



, Lower, Mr. W. E. Logan on fossil 



footprints in the Potsdam sandstone 

 of, 247. 



Cape Breton, fossil rain-prints from, 

 245. 



Carboniferous fossils from India, 39, 

 45. 



rain-prints, Sir C. Lyell on, 244. 



rocks of Ayrshire, Sir R. I. Mur- 

 chison on the, 141. 



of the Sichon, Sir R. I. Mur- 

 chison on the, 15. 



. See Coal-formation. 



