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INDEX. 





Brachiopods, number of Si- 



luiran, 249. 

 range of, in time, 386,* 494. 

 structure and subdivisions 

 of, 169* 

 Brachymerus interplicatus, 



JS26,* 229. 

 Brachymetopus, 308. 

 Brachyurans, 122, §* 475. 



first species of, 372. 

 Bracklesham beds, 512. 

 Bradley, F. H., Carboniferous 

 erosion, 359. 

 consolidation of gravel, 755. 

 geyser action, 750. 

 Lake Michigan outlets, 541, 



556. 

 miocene climate, 713. 

 Petrodus, 343. 

 Quebec group, 184. 

 Brains of Mammals, 508. 

 Branchiae, 123.§ 

 Brandon Lignite and fruits, 



494, 498.* 

 Brazil, mountains of, 24. 



buman relics in, 578. 

 Breaks in the geological record, 



602. 

 Breccia, 65.§ 



Brewer, W. H., life in hot 

 springs, 611. 

 Sierra Nevada, 453. 

 Bridger beds, 490. 

 British America, Cretaceous in, 

 455. 

 terraces in, 549. 

 Tertiary in, 493. 

 Brixham Cave, 564. 

 Broadhead, G. C, Missouri 

 Coal, 321. 

 St. Louis artesian well, 665. 

 Bromelia, 450. 



Brongniart, or Tertiary vegeta- 

 tion, 515. 

 Bronteus, 204, 249. 

 Brontotherium, 495, 506, 508. 



gigas, 511. 

 Brontozoum giganteum, 413, 



417. 

 Bronze Age, 574. 

 Brooks, T. B., on New York 



Primordial, 167, 

 Brooks & Pumpelly, on Mar- 

 quette iron region, 160. 

 Brown, B,., on Joggins section, 



319. 

 Brown coal, 61, § 361. 

 Bruxellian group, 512. 

 Bryozoans, 127,§* 199,303, 621. 

 number of Silurian, 249. 

 range of, in time, 387.* 

 Bubo leptosteus, 500. 

 BucanelJa trilobata, 223,* 228. 

 Bucania rotundata, 191.* 

 Buccinum Groenlandicum, 553. 



undatum, 553. 

 Buckler, 123,§ 174. 

 Buff limestone, 377. 

 Buffalo, American, 567, 582. 

 Buhrstone, 71. § 

 Carboniferous, 311. 

 Tertiary, 493. 

 Bulimella, 303. 

 Bullimus elipticus, 519. 

 Bulla, 475, 508. 

 Bulla speciosa, 461,* 467. 

 Bumastis Barriensis, 248, 

 Bumelia, 515. 

 Bunker Hill Monument, 720. 



Bunter Sandstein, 424. 

 Buprestis, 441*449. 

 Burlington limestone, 294, 305, 

 377, 378. 



crinoids of, 303. 

 Busycon incile, 511. 

 Buthotrephis gracilis, 198.* 



succulosus, 198.* 

 Butterfly, 121. § 



Cainozoic. See Cenozoic. 

 Cadent series, 375. 

 Caking coal, 315. 



analyses of, 316. 

 Calamaries, 119,* 125,§ 441. 

 Calamites, 270,*§ 280, 296, 297, 

 323, 327, 328, 331, 348, 349, 

 351, 353, 356, 370, 409, 426. 

 arenaceus, 429. 

 cannseformis, 271, 327,* 330. 

 Cistii, 330. 

 gigas, 370. 

 Mougeoti, 429. 

 nodosus, 330. 

 pachyderma, 330. 

 radiatus, 283, 307. 

 Suckowii, 297. 

 transitionis, 270,* 271. 

 Calamocladus, 348. 

 Calamodon simplex, 510. 

 Calamopsis. 497. 



Dana;, : 97,* 498. 

 Calamopora spongites, 766. 

 Calamostachys, 348. 

 Calatbium, 190. 

 Anstedi,190. 

 pannossum, 190. 

 Calaveras skull, 578. 

 Calcaire coquillier, 424. 

 grossier, 512, 513. 

 lacustre, 513. 

 marin, 513. 

 pisolitique, 470. 

 siliceux, 513. 

 Calcareous deposits, 708. 

 mica schist, 68.§ 

 rocks, 63.§ 

 Calceola, 174.* 

 sandalina, 173,* 284. 

 schist, 284. 

 Calcite, 55,§* 197, 222, 627, 



777. 

 Calciferous sandrock, 163, 182. 

 epoch, 163, 182. 

 flags, 245. 

 California, artesian wells in, 

 664. 

 Carboniferous in, 293. 

 Cretaceous in, 455, 457. 

 " geysers ,; of, 611, 753. 

 hot springs in, 611, 753. 

 human relics in, 577. 

 in the Cretaceous, 580, 520. 

 in the Tertiary, 520, 521, 523. 

 Jurassic in, 431, 432. 

 Quaternary in, 528. 

 Subcarboniferous in, 296. 

 terraces in, 549. 

 Tertiary in, 491, 492, 495, 



501, 508, 510. 

 Triassic in, 406. 

 Callianassa, 475, 477, 684. 



first of, 477. 

 Callipteris, 271, 331, 348. 

 pilosa, 271. 

 Sullivanti, 297. 

 Calista imitabilis, 509. 

 Sayana, 495, 500 * 510. 

 sobrina, 509- 



Callitris, 515. 



Callocystites Jewettii,117,*229. 

 Callovian group, 435. 

 Calophyllum, 230. 

 Calymene, 174,§ 240, 247. 

 Blumenbachii, 120* 202* 

 204, 206, 208, 228, 247, 248, 

 253. 

 Blumenbachii var. Niagaren- 



sis, 229. 

 crassimarginata, 261. 

 senaria, 201. 

 range of, in time, 387.* 

 Cal3 ptrophorus velatus, 509. 

 Camarophoria, 171, 372, 373. 

 crumena, 373. 

 Schlotheimi, 372, 373. 

 superstes, 372. 

 last of, 373. 



range of, in time, 386.* 

 Cambrian period, 163, 166, 179. 

 Camel, 495, 506, 507, 508. 

 Camelus, 506, 520. 

 Camelopardalis, 519, 520. 

 Camerella, 171,190, 203. 

 antiquata, 177. 

 calcifera, 189, 192. 

 varians, 192. 

 Campbell, on the Appalachi- 

 ans, 785. 

 Campophyllum torquium, 341. 

 Camptonectes, 431. 



lens, 449. 

 Campylodiscus clypeus. 635.* 

 Canada, Archaean in, 150, 154, 

 157, 159. 

 Calciferous in, 182, 183, 184. 

 Chazy in, 182, 184. 

 Cincinnati in, 196, 197- 

 copper mines in, 186. 

 Hamilton in, 266. 

 Huronian in, 159. 

 iron mines, 154, 186. 

 Laurentian in, 151. 

 Lower Helderberg in, 237, 



238. 

 Lower Silurian in, 211- 

 Niagara in, 221. 

 oil wells in, 256. 

 Oneida in, 220. 

 Oriskany in, 241. 

 Potsdam in, 167, 181. 

 Quaternary in, 528, 531, 537. 

 Quebec in, 182, 184. 

 Salinain,233, 234. 

 terraces in, 548. 

 Trenton in, 195. 

 uplifts in, 289. 

 Upper Helderberg in, 255, 



256. 

 Utica shale in, 196. 

 Canadian period, 163, 182, 192. 

 Cancellaria costellifera, 519. 

 Cancer, 120.*§ 



Caninia bilateralis, 224,* 228 

 Canis, 506, 511 519. 



Parisiensis, 518, 519. 

 Cannel coal, 68, § 315. § 

 coal, analyses of, 316. 

 coal, formation of, 359. 

 Canon of the Colorado, 644,* 



646. 

 Cape Girardeau limestone, 237 

 Cape Hatteras, 42. 

 Capelin, 553. 

 Capillary attraction, 629. 

 Capitosaurus, 428. 

 Caprina, 469, 

 adversa, 476. 



