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INDEX. 



Beautiful, idea of the, correlated to Na- 

 ture, 374. 



Beginuing of terrestrial order, 397. 



Behring's Straits crossed by man, 362. 

 " " ouce au isthmus, 369. 



Beliefs, popular, in general catastrophes, 

 380. 



Beneficence in glacier action, 227, 336. 



Beneficence in continental submerg- 

 ences, 232. 



Beneficence in arrangement of springs, 

 233, 234, 335. 



Beneficence in terrestrial disruptions, 

 333. 



Beneficence in disclosure of mineral val- 

 ues, 333. 



Beneficence in Nature correlated to man, 

 374. 



Beneficence and wisdom in coal-making, 

 160. 



Big Canon of the Colorado, 346. 



Bigsby, Dr., on Huronian, 67. 



Bill-fish, 166, 320. 



Billings, E., on St. John's Group, 75. 

 " " Lower Helderberg, 126. 



Bipedal footprints, 182. 

 " reptiles, 182, 191. 



Bird-tracks of Connecticut, 182. 



" " not ornithic, 185. 



Birds later than the tracks, 182. 



Bison in Europe, 360. 



Bitterns in salt-making. 302. 



Black Hills of Dakotah, 78. 



Black shales, 165. 



Blowing oil wells, 284, 285. 



Blue-grass region, geology of, 82, 344. 



Bogs of Denmark, 253. 



Bon Air, Tenn., situation of, 343. 



Bones, fossil, of Bad Lands, 207. 



Bothwell oil region, 288, 289. 



Boucher de Perthes on primeval man, 356. 



Boulder at University of Michigan, 220. 

 " " Bradford, Mass., 220. 



Boulders as rock specimens, 63. 

 " origin of, 220. 

 " utility of, 265. 



Boussingault on vegetable accumulation, 

 155. 



Brachiopods, 81. 



Brachyural crustaceans, 326. 



Bradford boulder, 220. 



Brasseur on Aztec cosmogony, 387. 



Brazil, glacier phenomena of, 221. 



Brewster, Sir David, on nebular hypothe- 

 sis, 435. 



Brahma, 3S3. 



Brahmins on ether, 418. . 



Brine of the ocean, its origin, 60. 



Brines, see Salt. 



British Museum, 186. 



Brorseu's comet, 418. 



Bronze Age, 353. 



Brown stone of Connecticut Valley, 180. 



Buckland, Dr., 182, 321. 



Buffalo, N. Y., geology of, 126, 165. 



Bulletins of creation, 319. 



Burial customs of primeval man, 366. 



Buried vegetable germs, 250. 



Burkesville oil region, 280. 

 Burlington, Iowa, geology of, 129. 

 Burning of the prairies, 266, 271. 



Cabot's Head, 124. 



Caesar on cave-dwellers, 363. 



Cage in mining, 139. 



Cahawba, Alabama, reptiles of, 190. 



Calamary, 116. 



Calamites, 136. 



Calcareo-fragmental rocks, 136. 



Calcareous rocks, 58, 133. 



Calciferous sandstone, 82. 



California, no glacial drift in, 335. 



Caly'mene senaria, 80. 



Cambrian rocks, 67. 



Camel formerly in America, 210. 



Cane and prairies, 266. 



Cannel coal a source of petroleum, 281. 



288. 

 Canons of the Colorado Biver, 345. 

 Carbonic acid in the atmosphere, 151,166. 

 " " the food of plants, 154, 166. 



Carboniferous reptiles, 169. 

 Carpenter, Dr.W.B., on Eozoon, 69. 



" " " mummied wheat, 



261. 

 Carpenter, Dr. W. B., on vitality of seeds, 



261. 

 Cartesian "vortices," 418. 

 Caspian Sea, why salt, 295. 

 Cassander on the great year, 383. 

 Catastrophes, beliefs in, 380, 390. 

 Catskill Mountains and rocks, 129, 895. 



" group, 131, 439. 

 Caudal elongation, 324. 

 Causation in endless series, 395. 

 Cave-Bear, 354. 

 Cave-Bear Epoch, 353. 

 Cave-Hyena, 354. 

 Cave-Lion, 354. 



Caves with human remains, 352. 

 Cedar in New Jersey swamps, 257. 

 ' on shores of great lakes, 259. 

 Celts on secular revolutions, 386. 

 Cemeteries of extinct animals, 205, 206, 



340. 

 Cenozoic Time, 201. 



" animals, 202. 

 Centemodon, 176. 

 Centre of earth still molten, 50. 

 Central heat, doctrine of, 433. 



" " references on, 435. 



Cephalaspis, 99. 

 Cephalopods, 110, 316. 

 Cereals introduced from the East, 362. 

 Chaldeans on the order of Nature, 382. 

 Chambered shells, 114. 

 Chambers in mining, 143. 

 Champlain Lake, geology of, 225, 230. 



" epoch, 239. 



Chance precluded, 334. 

 Changes in the human period, 369. 

 Chapel, " Pictured Rocks," 91. 

 Chapel Falls, 92. 

 Chatham, Ontario, 241. 

 Chattanooga, Tenn., 343. 

 Chemical geology, 58. 



