INDEX. 



517 



Meal Doun, Arran, description of the strata com- 

 posing the hill of, 31. 



Mechanical rocks, may appear to be crystalline, 479. 



Megatherium, account of the remains of, sent to 

 England by Woodbine Parish, Esq., 437. 



enumeration of the remains, 439. 



on the structure of the teeth, 



438 7Wte and 440. 



■ description of the vertebral co- 



lumn, 442. 



tremity, 446. 



ribs 445. 



sternum, 445. 



anterior ex- 



• pelvis, 447. 



posterior ex- 

 tremity, 448. 



Mendip Hills, on the occurrence of agates in do- 

 lomitic strata of the new red sandstone forma- 

 tion in the, 421. 



Metalliferous deposits, on the connexion of, with 

 rock formations, 494. 



veins, originated in most instances in 



mechanical action, 484. 



Metamorphic rocks, causes which may have mo- 

 dified the effects of igneous action on, 462. 



change produced in, may 



sometimes have been effected in short periods, 

 461. 



-sometimes 



in long periods, 462. 



by ic 



neous action, sometimes not, 479. 

 term not to be confined to one 



class of slaty rocks, 479. 



Meul Turach, notice of the conglomerate of, 146. 



Mexico, reference to works on the metalliferous 

 deposits in, 496 note. 



Meyersdorf, notice of the blue marl near, 365. 



Micklcbring, near Doncaster, section of the lower 

 part of the magnesian limestone series at, 110. 



— connexion of the magnesian lime- 

 stone with the coal at, 57, 110. 



Midderidge, fossil fishes found at, 116. 



and East Thickley, series of beds at 



the quarries of, 76. 



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Miller, Mr. I., notice of his collection of mountain 

 limestone coprolites, and his conjectures of their 

 true nature, 227, 231. 



notice of his opinion that the bones 



found at Stonesfield and considered to be birds, 

 belong to Pterodactyles, 219. 

 Moderer-berg, white marble of, described, 353. 

 Modiola acuminata found in great abundance 



near the Black Rocks, Durham, 119. 

 Molasse, description of, near Bregenz, 327. 

 Mollusca, notice of, found at CEningen, 287. 

 Mont Moron, notice of osseous breccia near the 



summit of, 174. 

 Mont Revel, section of the green sand strata of, 



182. 

 Moon, on the effects which the perturbations in 

 the mean distance or excentricity in the orbit 

 of, would produce on the tides, 294. 



not sufficient to account for 



any great diluvial piiaenomena, 295. 

 Moschus, animal allied to, found at Binsted, 



452. 

 Mountain limestone extensively quarried at Corry 

 in Arran, 30. 



abounds with Producta Sco- 



tica, 30. 

 resting on the slate in Kings- 

 dale, &c., contains pebbles of slate, 10. 

 Mount Rosa, reference to works on the mines at 



the foot of, 497 note. 

 Miinster, Count, fossils obtained by, from the 



Kressenberg, 344. 

 Murchison, Roderick Impey, Esq. on a fossil fox 

 found at ffiningen near Constance, with an ac- 

 count of the deposit in which it was imbedded, 

 277. 

 and Prof. Sedgwick on the geolo- 

 gical relations of the secondary strata in the 

 Isle of Arran, 21. 

 on the structure 



and relations of the deposits contained between 

 the primary rocks and the oolitic series in the 

 North of Scotland, 125. 

 on the structure 



of the Eastern Alps, with sections through the 

 newer formations on the northern flanks of the 

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