INDEX TO THE PROCEEDINGS. 



length of the day, cxxix ; Col. James 

 and Capt. Clarke on the density of 

 the earth, cxxix ; the researches made 

 by the coast survey of the United 

 States, and by Prof. A. D. Bache on 

 the distribution of temperature in 

 and near the Gulf-stream, cxxxi ; no- 

 tice of Mr. Poole's visit to the Dead 

 Sea, cxxxii ; the reports by Consul- 

 General Miller on the eruption of 

 Mauna Loa in Hawaii, cxxxii ; Mr. 

 Babbage's paper on oceanic sedi- 

 ments, cxxxii ; Mr. Poulett Scrope's 

 views on the formation of craters and 

 on the nature of the liquidity of lava, 

 cxxxii ; Mr. James Gay Sawkins's 

 visit to the Friendly Islands, cxxxiii; 

 papers on minerals by Dr. Rubidge, 

 Mr. Dick, the Rev. R. H. Cobbold, 

 and the Rev. W. S. Symonds, cxxxiii ; 

 notice of the coal-formation of the 

 neighbourhood of Sydney, by Mr. J. 

 S. Wilson, cxxxiv; Mr. S. H. Beck- 

 les's description of a cliff-section 

 from Hastings to Cliffend, cxxxiv ; 

 Mr. Bunbury on a peat-deposit near 

 Wretham Hall, Norfolk, cxxxiv ; ana- 

 lysis by Dr. Richardson and Mr. 

 Browell of mineral waters brought 

 from the borders of Persia bv Mr. 

 W. K. Loftus, cxxxv; Mr. J.'Wol- 

 ley's notice of an ice-carried boulder 

 at Borgholm, cxxxv ; Mr. Cleghorn 

 on the origin of the potholes on the 

 surface of the rocks of Wick, cxxxv ; 

 Mr. H. G. Bowen's sketch of the 

 geology of Trinidad, cxxxv ; ]Mr. H. 

 J. Moyle's notice of the occurrence 

 in Siam of various metalliferous ores, 

 cxxxv ; the Rev. W. B. Clarke's note 

 on volcanic bombs in the alluvial 

 drift of Victoria and Tasmania, cxxxv ; 

 Mr. Morris on allophane at Charlton, 

 Kent, cxxxv ; Prof. Owen's papers 

 on the Stereognathus ooliticus from 

 the Stonesfield slate, cxxxvi; Gastor- 

 nis Parisiensis from the lower eocene 

 of Meudon, near Paris, cxxxvi ; mam- 

 mahan fossils from the red crag of 

 Suffolk, cxxxvi ; a Irrge serpent from 

 Capt. Spratt's collection of Greek 

 freshwater tertiaries, cxxxvii ; Mr. 

 Salter on organic remains found in 

 the Longmynd, cxxxvii ; on Diploce- 

 ras, cxxxviii ; on a new species of 

 Ascoceras from Ludlow, cxxxviii; Mr. 

 Salter's and Mr. W. H. Baily's notice 

 of the fossils found in the chalk-flints 

 and greensand of Aberdeenshire, 

 cxxxviii ; Mr. J. W. Kirkby on the 

 occurrence of a minute malacostra- 



cous crustacean and other fossils in 

 the magnesian limestone of Durham, 

 cxxxviii ; Mr. S. P. Woodward's de- 

 scription of the appearance of some 

 Orthocerata from China, cxxxviii ; 

 Mr. Binney on footprints in the mill- 

 stone-grit of Tintwistle, Cheshire, 

 cxxxix ; Mr. Rupert Jones's notice 

 that some of the minute species of 

 Posidonomya should be removed from 

 the mollusca, and classed with the 

 bivalved phyllopoHous entomostraca, 

 cxxxix; observations on the Museum 

 of Practical Geology and the School 

 of Mining Science associated with 

 it, cxl ; thoughts on creation, and 

 conclusion, cxliii. 



Pot-holes at Wick, 231. 



Prado, C. de, on the Geology of Spain, 

 noticed, lxx\Ti. 



Prestwich, J., on some fossiliferous 

 ironstone occurring on the North 

 Downs, 212 ; on the correlation of the 

 eocene tertiaries of England, France, 

 and Belgium ; Part II. The Paris 

 group continued, 89 ; noticed, xcix. 



Proboscidea, Dr. Falconer on the, 310. 



Prosoponiscus problematiciis, 214. 



Purbeck, Dr. Falconer's description of 

 two species of the fossil mammalian 

 genus Plagiaulax from, 261. 



Pygocephalus Cooperi, 363. 



Quartzites of the north-west of Scot- 

 land, 17. 



Rain-prints in the Cambrian rocks, 201. 



Recent and fossil ophidian vertebrae, 

 197. 



Red sandstone and conglomerate, and 

 the superposed quartz-rocks, lime- 

 stones, and gneiss of the N.W. coast 

 of Scotland, Prof. Nicol on the, 17. 



Report, Annual, of the Council, i; of the 

 Library and Museum Committee, iii. 



Rhodes, Mr. Campbell on the occur- 

 rence of an earthquake at, 1 76. 



Richardson, T., and E. J. J. Browell, on 

 the analysis of waters from theTurko- 

 Persian frontier, 184. 



Ripple-marks in the Cambrian rocks, 

 201. 



Rock-basins of Dartmoor, 231. 



Rubidge, R. N., on the copper-mines of 

 Namaqualand, 233 ; noticed, cxxxiii. 



Sables moyens, 107. 



Salonika, Capt. Spratt on the fresh- 

 water deposits of, 177 ; fossil verte- 

 brae of a serpent (Laophis crotaloides, 

 Ow.) discovered by Capt. Spratt at, 

 183, 196. 



Salter, J. W., on annehde-burrows and 

 surface-markings from the Cambrian 



