﻿INDEX TO THE PROCEEDINGS. 



relation with the theory of successive 

 development, li ; remains of fish in 

 the Silurian rocks, lii ; Silurian rocks 

 of the Himalaya, investigated by 

 Captain Strachey, lii ; probable quiet 

 deposition of the Silurian rocks, liii ; 

 their purely marine character, liii ; 

 the results of sea dredging, liii ; ab- 

 sence of land shells in the older 

 rocks, liv ; rarity of freshwater shells 

 in the coal, liv ; insects of the coal, 

 lv ; Prof. Heer on the insects of the 

 carboniferous period, lv ; Agassiz on 

 the fish of the coal, lv ; Sauroid fish, 

 lvi ; H. v. Meyer on Apateon pedes- 

 tris, lvi ; Prof. v. Dechen's discovery 

 of reptiles in the coal, lvi ; Dr. King's 

 discovery of fossil reptilian foot- 

 prints in the carboniferous sandstone 

 of Pennsylvania, lvii; Mr. I. Lea's 

 discovery of carboniferous reptile- 

 tracks, lvii; invertebrata of the se- 

 condary formations, lvii; Rev. Mr. 

 Brodie's insects and freshwater ani- 

 mals of the lias, lviii; Dr. Dunker's 

 and Prof. E. Forbes's discovery of 

 pulmoniferae in the Wealden, lviii; 

 Forbes and Austen on the relations 

 of the Wealden to the oolitic and 

 the cretaceous epochs, lix ; vertebrata 

 of the secondary rocks, lix; the 

 Iguanodon, lix; footprints of birds 

 in the trias of North America, lix ; 

 Mr. Redfield, Prof. Hitchcock, Dr. 

 Deane and Prof. Owen, researches 

 and remarks on the bird-tracks, lx,lxi; 

 Mr. Dana on coprolites accompany- 

 ing the bird-tracks, lxi; absence of 

 remains of birds in the ancient triassic 

 rock and in the recent foot-marked 

 clays of the Bay of Fundy, and the 

 marl of Scotch Lakes, lxi and lxii ; 

 probable presence of bird-remains in 

 the Stonesfield slate and the Wealden, 

 lxii ; pterodactyles, lxiii ; tertiary re- 

 mains of birds, lxiv ; the Stonesfield 

 mammalia, lxiv ; Prof. Owen on Ara- 

 phitherium Prevostii, lxiv ; fossil ce- 

 tacea, lxvi ; value of negative evidence, 

 lxvii ; reasons why fluviatile and la- 

 custrine deposits may be rare in the 

 older rocks, lxviii; tertiary mam- 

 malia, lxix; cavern-remains, lxix; 

 the Aralo-Caspian formation, lxxi; 

 fluviatile deposits of the Rhine and 

 Mississippi, lxxi; cavern-remains of 

 Brazil, lxxi ; rare occurrence of hu- 

 man remains even in the most recent 

 tertiary, lxxi; recent appearance of 

 man on the earth, lxxiii; creation 

 and extinction of species, lxxiii; 



great age of the existing fauna and 

 flora of Europe, lxxiv ; note on the 

 tortoise-tracks brought from Lower 

 Canada by Mr. Logan, lxxv; Prof. 

 Owen on the Canadian footprints, 

 lxxvi. 



Lyell, Sir C, on fossil rain-marks of 

 the recent, triassic, and carboniferous 

 periods, 238. 



Macacus eocenus, noticed, lxix. 



Macclesfield, erratics at, 203. 



Macculloch's Geological Map of Scot- 

 land, noticed by Sir R. I. Murchison, 

 139. 



Mackie, Mr. S. J., on a deposit at 

 Folkestone containing bones of mam- 

 malia, 257. 



Maclurea, sp., 176. 



Maidstone, the drift at, 382. 



Mammalian remains at Betchworth,380 ; 

 at Brighton, 365, 366; at Dover, 

 384 ; at East Bourn, 355 ; at Folke- 

 stone, 261, 385 ; at Maidstone, 382 ; 

 at Marden, 383 ; at Peasemarsh, 281, 

 288; from Tibet, 307 ; in the Upper 

 Punjaub, 40, 44 ; in the Valley of the 

 Wey, 287 ; of the Pleistocene period, 

 131, 134; of the Siwalik Hills, no- 

 ticed, lxxii; of the Stonesfield slate, 

 noticed, lix; of the Thames Valley, 

 25, 33; in Kent, 379, 382; on the 

 North Downs, 378; on the South 

 Downs, 367; near Vichy, 76; second- 

 ary, noticed, lxvi; tertiary, noticed, 

 lxix. 



Maramaliferous crag, Mr. Austen on 



the, 129. 

 Manchester, erratics at, 204. 

 Mantell,Dr., on the Iguanodon, noticed, 



lxv. 



Marchantia Sezannensis, noticed, 1. 

 Massachusetts, fossil footprints of, no- 

 ticed, lx. 



Meneghini and Savi on the Verrucano, 

 noticed, xlviii. 



Metamorphism of rocks, Mr. J. R. Lo- 

 gan on the, 340. 



Meteorological conditions of Singapore, 

 328. 



Mever on Apateon pedestris, noticed, 

 lvi. 



Miller, Mr. Hugh, on progressive deve- 

 lopment, noticed, xxxiv. 



Mississippi, absence of land-shells in 

 the alluvia of the, noticed, liv. 



Molluscs, Silurian, noticed, lii ; Weald- 

 en, noticed, lviii. 



Montpereux, M. F. Dubois de, notice 

 of, xxvii. 



Mull, the Duke of Argyll on tertiary leaf- 

 beds in the Isle of, 89. 



