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INDEX. 



Kilroot, Neolithic implements at, 461. 



Kinahan cited, 190 ; on Irish peat-bogs, 

 461 ; on rate of growth of Irish peat, 

 490 ; cited, 528. 



Kincardine Moss, 422, 424. 



King, Clarence, cited, 243. 



Kingsmill cited, 168. 



Kirkdale Cave, 94. 



Kitchen-middens, Danish, 365 ; men of 

 Danish, 368 ; in Scotland, England, 

 Ireland, and France, 369 ; in Carse of 

 Falkirk, 400 ; in Ireland, 461. 



Kjeeulp cited, 195 ; on Norwegian 

 strandlinier, 271 ; on heights reached 

 by Norwegian glacial shell-beds, 271 ; 

 on postglacial shell-beds of Norway, 

 465 ; on nnfossiliferous postglacial clay 

 of Norway, 471. 



Klein, shells of Canstadt tufa, 46, 59. 



" Knick," 477. 



Kolbermoor, peat of, 493. 



Konigsberg, range of temperature at, 39. 



Korzistka cited, 146. 



Krapotkin, on postglacial beds of Fin- 

 land and Northern Russia, 470. 



Kreuzberg, interglacial deposits of, 279. 



Kunth on German glacial deposits, 277. 



Labrador current, 39. 



La CeUe, tufa of, 50, 56. 



Lacuna divaricata, 385. 



Lacustrine alluvia, postglacial, 425. 



Lago d'Iseo, ancient glacier of, 303. 



Lagomys, 108, 113, 149. (See also Tailless 

 Hare.) 



Lagomys corsicanus, 30 ; L. pusillus, 

 30 ; L. sardus, 30. 



Lahn, river, loss of, 145. 



Lake district (Northern England), glacia- 

 tion of, 190. 



Lake-dwellings, 369. 



Lake, former, in bed of Irish Sea, 511. 



Lake of Bienne, silting up of, 558. 



Lake of Onega, height of, above sea, 471. 



La Madelaine Mountains, glaciation of, 

 212. 



Lamanon cited, 172. 



Lamplugh on interglacial beds near Brid- 

 lington, 264. 



Lancashire, glaciation of, 190 ; lower 

 boulder clay of, 265 ; submerged peat 

 of, 431, 432 ; postglacial beds of, 451. 



Land - connections between Europe and 

 Africa in Pleistocene times, 337 ; dis- 

 appearance of, 523, 533. 



Land, great extension of, in early post- 

 glacial times, 505, 509, 513, 518. 



La Pique, glacier of, 212. 



Larch, 54. 



Largo, submarine peat at, 401. 



Larix europcea, 309. 



Lartet cited, 21, 29, 49, 111, 552. 



Lasard cited, 283. 



Late glacial deposits in Tay and Earn 



valleys, 386. 

 Laurus nobilis (laurel), 46, 47, 49 ; var. 



Canariensis (Canary laurel), 46, 47, 



49, 50. 

 Laurustinus, 47. 

 Leda arctica, 281, 387, 403, 471 ; L. 



pernula, 467. 

 Lee-seite, 177. 

 Leffe, lignites of, 306. 

 Lehm. (See Loss.) 

 Leipzig, striated rocks near, 198. 

 Lemming, 30, 32, 40, 42, 62, 87, 108, 



147, 149. 

 Leopard, 27, 32, 40, 113, 325. 

 Lepidoptera, distribution of alpine species 



of, in Britain, 511. 

 Lepus timidus, 510. (See also Hare.) 

 Leuchars, raised-beach at, 418. 

 Lewis, island of, 268. 

 Letdig cited, 237. 

 Lignite, of Steinbach, 152 ; interglacial, 



298, 303. 

 Lillemose, peat-bog of, 485. 

 Lima excavata, 467. 

 Limax agrestis, 61. 

 Lime-tree, 48, 53. 

 Limnoza, 425, 449 ; L. Umosa, j8 ovata- 



normalis, 475, B 493 ; L. minuta, 302 ; 



L. ovata, 57, 470 ; L. peregra, 264. 

 Limon grossier (Limon biefeux), 154, 



163. 

 Limon hesbayen, 155, 507. 

 Lincolnshire, submarine peat of, 431, 



450. 

 Lentdeberg on successive tiers of trees in 



bogs of Sweden, 488. 

 Lindsay, Lauder, cited, 518. 

 Lindstrom cited, 195. 

 Linth, E. v., cited, 206. 

 Lion, 26, 32. (See Cave-lion.) 

 Liparis barbatus, 171. 

 Lipari, tufa of, 45, 47. 

 Liquidambar europozum, 46. 

 Lithuanian bison, 31. 

 Littel cited, 150. 

 Little Sole Banks, trace of submerged 



littoral deposits at, 509. 

 Littorina, 284 ; L. litorea, 399, 469, 



497. 

 Littorinella, 284. 



Loamy deposits of Pleistocene Period, 143. 

 Local glaciers, postglacial, 526 ; in Scot- 

 land, 398, 411 ; deflection of, 415. 

 Locard on shells in Pleistocene at Lyons, 



63 ; on shells in Corsican breccias, 64 ; 



on breccia of Bonaria, 65. 

 Loch Skene, moraines at, 412. 

 Looes, submerged peat near the, 431. 

 London, submerged peat at, 431. 

 "Longheads," Neolithic, 375. 

 Lory cited, 208. 

 Loss, human remains in, 22 ; composition 



