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INDEX. 



Bald, Robert, Esq., his notice of the Brora coal, 



293. 

 Baiiniskirk, Caithness, fossil fish in slate of, 314. 

 Bargate stone, 101. 

 . . quantity of calcareous matter in, 



107. 

 Barytes, sulphate of, in the lias formation of 



Lyme Regis, 29. 

 Basalt, leucitic, composing the lavas of Somma, 



338. 

 Beal near Portree, Skye, cornbrash and forest 



marble of, 310. 



trap dykes at, 310. 



Beds resembling those at Kimmeridge in the 



Isle of Portland, 43. 

 Begelly, section at, 19. 

 Belemnites, Mr. J. S. Miller on, 45. 



__ chemical analysis of, 56. 



conjectures on the form of the inha- 



bitant of, 56. 



description of the species of, 58. 



efl'ects of decomposition on the shell 



of, 53. 



- generic character of, 48. 



geological position of, 45. 



structure of the sheath of, 51 . 



Ben-a.Bhraggie, Sutherland, composed of red 



conglomerate, 294. 

 Bengal, Bay of, western shores of, tertiary, 



387. 



description of fossil remains from, 393. 



Bentley and Binsted, valley under, composed of 



gault, 100. 

 Benton Castle : see Trap. 

 Bird, fosbil bone of a, in the east cliff at Hastings, 



35, 

 Bivalves in the chalk near Lyme Regis, 111. 



in the lias formation at Lyme Regis, 28. 



in the sands and sandstones beneath the 



chalk near Lyme Regis, 114. 

 Bolton Beacon : see Trap. 

 BoneSj fossil, discovered near the town of Pin- 



jore, 390. 

 found between Ava and Prome, 



Bony substance, pieces of a, in the sands and 

 sandstones beneath the chalk near Lyme Regis, 

 113. 



Braambury, hills of, and quarries, 296. 



. fossils of, 297. 



Brahro-putra river, animal remains from the, 

 393. 



Breccia of the oolitic series in contact with gra- 

 nite, at the Ord of Caithness, 306. 



. produced by upheav. 



ing of granite, 354. 

 near Wetmasut on the Irawadi, 382, 



383. 



378, 384. 



fragments of, from Bengal, 393. 



Broadford, Skye, lias of, same as that of Apple- 

 cross, 362. 



lias limestone of, 311. 



Broad-haven : see Trap. 



Brongniart, M. Adolphe, on the coal-field of 

 Iloer, describes the fronds of four species of 

 plants therein, 400. 



inferences with respect to 



climate, by, 400, 401. 



Brora, coal-field of, 293. 



coal of, described, 301. 



coal strata, section of, 326. 



coal works, history of, 324. 



coast section of, 302. 



Brown, Robert, Esq., notice of coniferous wood 

 and fossil plants, examined by, 395, ei seq. 



Buccinum, new species undescribed, Brora, 320. 



Buckland, Rev. VV.,D.D., on the formation of the 

 valley of Kingsclere and other valleys, by the 

 elevation of the strata that inclose them ; and 

 on the evidences of the original continuity of 

 the basins of London and Hampshire, 119. 



on the animal and vegeta- 

 ble remains, and rocks collected by J. Craw- 

 furd, Ksq., on a voyage up the Irawadi to 

 Ava, 377. 



his visit to Brora, 293. 



' on the Cycadeoidea;, 395. 



on the supposed power of 



the waters of the Irawadi to convert wood 

 into stone, 403. 



Buddha, marble and reddish stone used for ma> 

 king images at, 389. 



