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INDEX. 



288; Shaler on, 288; King on, 288; Hitch- 

 cock on, 290, 292; Close on, 290; Geikie 

 on, 291. 



D'Urville, Explorations of, in the Antarc- 

 tic Continent, 114. 



Dust-fogs, 409, 410. 



Dutton, Captain C. E., 498. 



Dying Glacier, 73. 



Eagle, Wis., 211, 350. 



Earthworms and loess, 418. 



Easton, Pa., 142, 634. 



Eccentricity of the earth's orbit, varia- 

 tions of, 468, 518 ; not coincident with the 

 latest epoch of giaciation, 509, 517; prob- 

 ably not influential in causing giaci- 

 ation, 518. 



Elephants, 436, 437, 624. 



Elevation of bowlders in ice, in Pennsyl- 

 vania, 197, 241, 247 etseq. ; inBritish Amer- 

 ica, 200,244; in Massachusetts, 237, 239, 

 240; in New Hampshire, 246, 247; in Ver- 

 mont, 247; in Maine, 247; explanation of, 

 250 et seq. 



Elevation probably causing giaciation, 

 497, 508 et seq.; due to removal of the ice- 

 sheet, 499, 500, 506. 



Elizabeth Islands, 137, 140, 203, 360. 



Elliott, H. W., on Alaskan glaciers, 30. 



Ells, Mr. R. W., on buried channels in 

 Canada, 312. 



Ellsmere Land, glaciers in, 102. 



Elyria, Ohio, 560. 



Emerson, Professor, on marginal lakes of 

 the Connecticut Valley, 347. 



Emmons, Mr. S. F., ascent of Mount Ta- 

 coma by, 22. 



England, 229, 534; glaciers in, 446, 448 et 

 seq.; changes of level in, 453; palseoliths 

 in, 616, 624; preglacial man in, 534, 676. 



Equador, 108. 



Erichsen, M., 99. 



Erosion by water, 226 et seq., 279, 298 et 

 seq., 372, 488, 536 et seq.; compared with 

 that of ice, 227, 355; chemical, 229, 568; 

 glacial, 230 et seq.; preglacial, 226 et seq.; 

 261,298e*seq.;post-glacial,298,536etseq. 



Eschscholtz Bay, 36, 37. 



Eskers.. See Karnes. 



Eskimos, 245, 440, 623, 641; lineal descend- 

 ants of preglacial man, 438, 706, 707. 



Essex County, Mass., 285, 289. 



Europe, existing glaciers of, 104 et seq., 110, 

 glacial erosion in, 231, 232, 254,255, 260, 

 278, 294 et seq.; transported bowlders in, 

 236, 237; drumlins in, 290, 291; kames in, 

 339, 340; glacial lakes in, 364, 365; loess in, 



410; preglacial plants of, 428; et seq.; dur- 

 ing the Glacial period, chapter on, 445- 

 459; successive Glacial periods in, 483- 

 486; interglacial man in, 623-625; Qua- 

 ternary oscillations in, 506. 



Evans, Mr., 624. 



Ewing, Professor A. L., on chemical eros- 

 ion in the Nittany Valley, 229, 230. 



Fairfield county, Ohio, glacial boundary 

 in, 169; bowlders in, 942. 



Falconer, Dr., 624. 



Fahs of Minnehaha, post-glacial, 303. 



Falls of Niagara, 575; post-glacial, 303; 

 formation of, 536; rate of recession of, 

 536 et seq., 665, 706. 



Falls of St. Anthony, 311, 575, 655; post- 

 glacial, 303, 552 et seq.; rate of recession 

 of, 557 et seq.; 665. 



Falmouth, Mass., 204 et seq. 



Fargo, Minn., 334. 



Faroe Islands, 506. 



Favorite Glacier, 74. 



Finger Lakes, New York, 206, 352, 353, 

 358, 363. 



Fiords, 501, 502, 506. 



Fisher, Rev. O., 498. 



Fisher's Island, 140. 



Fishing Creek, 148. 



Fissures in glacial ice, 8, 19, 50, 93, 95, 96. 



Flathead River, 13. 



Floods at the close of the Glacial period, 

 314 et seq., 346 et seq., 387 et seq., 558, 634- 

 638. 



Floras of Faroe Islands and Iceland, 506. 



Florence, Ky., 367. 



Fondalen Glacier, 106, 233. 



Foote , Professor H . C . , on sediment of sub- 

 glacial streams, 68. 



Forbes, Professor J. D., discovers glacial 

 motion, 2, 88, 94; on transported bowl- 

 ders in the Alps, 237. 



Forel, M., on recession and advance of 

 Alpine glaciers, 105. 



Fort Snelling, 315, 665; contrast between 

 bluffs above and those below, 553, 554. 



Fort Wrangel, 27, 39, 136, 188. 



Foshay, Mr. P. Max, on buried channels, 

 302. 



Fossiliferous marine beds overlying glacial 

 drift, 504, 505. 



Fossils at Glens Ferry, 704 et seq. 



Fosters Flats, 550. 



Four-mile Creek, Ohio, 598, 600. 



France, 487; dust-shower in, 410; palaeo- 

 liths in, 616, 623, 624; interglacial man in, 

 676. 



