INDEX. 



599 



Von Buch, M., notice of his opinion that the Rhenish 

 strata are not of very high antiquity, 260 note. 



Von Dechen, Prof., notices respecting the geological 

 map of Westphalia, &c. by, 225, 227, 230 note, 

 234', 239 and 241 notes. 



W. 



Warstein, description of Devonian strata at, 240. 



Warwick, account of remains of the Labyrinthodon 

 from the lower sandstone of, 503, 515. 



Watcombe, account of the recent fault near, 483. 



Water, remarks on the supposed action of running 

 water on lava, 34 and note. 



Weald, remarks on the connexion of the physical 

 phaenomena of the, with those of the Boulonnais 

 and other parts of France and England, 566. 



Wear, description of the trap rocks near, 475. 



Webster, Thos. Esq., notice of his section in Alum 

 Bay, 171. 



copy of the section, 171. 



Weingarten, description of the phaenomena presented 

 by a section between Miinster-Eifel and Wein- 

 garten, 277. 



Weipperfeldt, notice of the Devonian limestone near, 

 237. 



Weiss, Prof., notice of his description of remains of 

 the Megatherium, &c., 82. 



Western Asia Minor, physical structure of part of, 3. 



classification of the rocks, 4. 



description of the sedimentary 



rocks, 5. 



— igneous rocks, 



22. 



general conclusions, 37. 



comparison of the formations of, 



with those in North-Western Europe, 38. 

 West Down, notice of intrusive trap near, 471. 

 Westphalia, description of the carboniferous rocks 



of, 228. 



coal-measures, 228. 



lower portion 



of, resembles the culm series of Devon, 229. 

 . carboniferous lime- 



stone with the associated Kiesel-schiefer and bitu- 

 minous limestone, 229. 

 changes in the cha- 



racters of the limestone in its range eastward from 

 Ratingen, 231. 



Westphalia, description of the lithological charac- 

 ters of, 233. 

 groups below the 



carboniferous system, 235. 



Devonian 



rocks, 235. 



mann, Elberfeldt, &c., 235. 



chede and Brilon, 238. 



near Mett- 

 near Mes- 

 near Bens- 



berg, 241. 



Silurian rocks of. 



252. 



Wetzlar, section of Devonian strata on the left bank 

 of the Lahn, near, 250. 



White Cliff Bay, account of the strata above the 

 chalk in, 170. 



Whitstable, observations on the coast near, 213 note. 



Williams, Rev. D., notice of a mass of trap exposed 

 in the railway cutting at the western extremity of 

 Bleadon Hill, 561. 



Williamson, W. C- Esq., on the distribution of or- 

 ganic remains in the strata of the Yorkshire coast 

 from the upper sandstone to the Oxford clay in- 

 clusive, 143. 



Wissenbach, black schists of, described, 245, 253. 



lists of fossils from, 



255 note. 



— ^— — equivalent of the shale 



under the Eifel limestone, 256. 



Wrangell, M., extract from his account of the action 

 of drifting ice off the coast of Siberia, 421. 



Y. 



Yalberton, notice of the limestone of, 469. 



Yealm Bridge, section of cleavage in curved strata 



near, 481. 

 Yorkshire coast, distribution of fossils in the upper 



sandstone, Kelloway rock, and Oxford clay on 



the, 143. 



Zeuglodon, Harlan, R., M.D., on the discovery of 

 the remains of the Basilosaurus or Zeuglodon, 67. 



. . reasons why the re- 

 mains were assigned to an extinct Saurian, 67. 



