INDEX. 



521 



Organic remains, Mr. James Sovverby's observa- 

 tions on tlie tertiary fossils of Hirteniberg, 403 

 note. 



— Dr. MacCulloch's statement 



that they are found in quartz rock in Scotland, 

 not correct, 155. 



traces of, in the concretionary 



magnesian limestone near Knaresborough, 92. 

 Orinoco, reference to Humboldt's account of the 



auriferous granite of the, 49 1. 

 Ornithocoprus, name apphed by Dr. Buckland to 



the Guano of Peru, 236. 

 Ortenburg, section from, to the banks of the Inn, 



380. 

 Orthocera, associated with the salt-breccia of the 



Eastern Alps, 315. 



impressions considered by Dr. Mac 



Culloch as, stated not to be organic, 156. 



Osseous breccia, description of, near Nice, 173. 

 Osteolepis, species of, found in the Caithness, 144. 

 Ostrea, casts of, occur at Whitley quarry, 119. 

 Otley, Mr. Jonathan, notice of his arrangement 



of the slate rocks of Cumberland, 2 note. 

 Outliers of magnesian limestone, description of, 53. 

 Overlying conglomerates in the West of England 



do not represent the rothe-todte-liegende, 122. 

 Oxford oolite, notice of, at Calne in Wiltshire, 



262. 



• • clay, notice of, near Bath, 260, 275. 



Oxus, notice respecting the course of the, 493. 



of the geology between the, and 



Bokhara, 494. 



Paington, Devon, description of the red conglo- 

 merate of, 163. 



. passage of old red sandstone into grau- 



wacke, 167. 



Pallion, section presented by the quarry at, 78. 



fossil fish discovered in the quarries at, 78. 



Palaeotherium, remarks on the existence of the, 

 in the Isle of Wight, 451. 



PalfEothrissum, species of, found in the magnesian 

 limestone, 117. 



species of, found in making the 



New Stockton rail-road, 77. 



Palterton and Bolsover, magnesian limestone be- 

 tween, rests upon a productive part of the Der- 

 byshire coal strata, 57. 



■ sections at, 81. 



Parallel stripes, parallel in slaty rocks to true 

 bedding, 474. 



terraces, of common occurrence in South 



Western Bavaria, 416. 



Parish, Woodbine, Esq., account of the remains 

 of the Megatherium sent to England by, 437. 



Partsch, M., notice of his survey of the Austrian 

 Alps, 320. 



section of tertiary strata near Vienna, 



402. 



Pennant, Mr., section of the great slate quarry 

 belonging to, on Bangor road, 475. 



Pensberg, notice of the lignite of, 378. 



Pentland, Mr., observations on the Caithness 

 fislies, 143. 



Firth, relations of the upper red sand- 

 stone of the, doubtful, 157. 



Penygent, section of the strata composing the 

 side of, 18. 



Phillips, John, Esq., on a group of slate rocks 

 ranging E.S.E. between the rivers Lune and 

 Wharfe, from near Kirkby Lonsdale to near 

 Malham ; and on the attendant phenomena, 1 . 



observations on his nomen- 

 clature of cleavage, 472 note. 



Pielach, notice of the strata on the banks oi' the, 

 near Molk, 405. 



Piesting, notice of the overlying deposit of, 364. 



Pissenstein, strata composing the, assigned to the 

 lias, 313. 



Plagiostoma, casts of a shell resembling the genus, 

 occur at Humbleton, 120. 



Plants, fossil, observations on tlic, found in the 

 man formations of ffiningen, 287. 



Plastic clay, fossils found in, at Castle Hill, New- 

 haven, 204. 



Plaster-pit Hill near Ferrybridge, section at, 101. 



Pleurotomaria, shells resembling, found in Hum- 

 bleton Quarry, 118. 



Pontefract, in the district south of, magnesian 

 limestone apparently conformable to the co.-i! 

 measures, 57. 



