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INDEX. 



Fishes of Old Eed Sandstone, 415. 



of "Wealden, 262. 



Fissures filled with metallic matter, C21. See- 



Mineral veins. 

 Fitton, Dr., on lower cretaceous beds, 25C. 

 . . . ., cited, 260, 293, 29T, 303. 

 Fleming, Dr., on scales offish in old red, 414 



, on trap-rocks in coal-field of Forth, 556. 



...., on trap-dike in Fifeshire, 55T. 



Flints of chalk, 11, 243. 



Flora, carboniferous, 860. 



...., cretaceous, 265. 



.... of London clay, 216. 



...., permian, 356. 



Flotz, term explained, 90. 



Flyscb, explanation of term, 231. 



Foliation, term defined, 606. 



Fontainebleau, Gres de, 1S4, 194. 



footprint of bird, 34T. 



Footprints of reptiles, 837, 34T, 39S, 899, 413. 



Foraminifera, chalk, 26: tertiaiy, 1T9, 215, 



22T, 230, 231 ; paleozoic, 409, 444. 

 Forbes, Mr. David, on foliation, 607. 

 Forbes, Prof. E., on Bembridge series, 1S5, 



187. 

 . . . ., on Caradoc sandstone, 433. 



, on Cystideai, 439. 



...., on Hempstead, Isle of "VFight series, 185, 



192. 



on Mull leaf -bed, ISO. 



. . . ., on shells in crag deposits, 172. 

 ...., on cretaceous fossil shells, 254. 



,on fossils of the faluns, 176. 



, on fossils in drift in South Ireland, 187. 



. . . ., on deep-sea origin of Silurian strata, 455. 

 . . . ., on echinoderms of coralline crag, 172. 

 ...., on fauna of boulder-period, 131. 

 ...., on migrations of mollusca in glacial-pe- 

 riod, 172. 

 ....,on fossils of Purbcck group, 293, 297, 



299. 



, on strata at Atherfield, 257. 



, on volcanic rocks of oolite period, 555. 



....,on depth of animal life in jEgean, 85, 



143. 

 . . . ., on geographical provinces, 256. 

 Forbes, Prof. James, on zones in glacier-ice, 



606. 



on the Alps, 149. 



Forchhammer, on scratched limestone, 127. 

 Forest, fossil, in Norfolk. 133, 186. 

 Forest marble of oolite, 805. 

 Forfarshire, old red sandstone in, 59S. 

 Formation, term defined, 8. 

 Fossil ferns in carbonaceous shale, 314 

 .... footsteps, 385, 837, 833. 



forest in Isle of Portland. 297. 



forest in Nova Scotia, 876. 



forest near Wolverhampton, 874 



plants in wealden, 264 



remains in caves, 159. 



.... shells from Etna, 528; near Grignon, 226. 

 .... 6hells of Mayence strata, 190 ; of Virginia, 



18L 

 .... shells, passim. 



term defined, 4 



trees erect. 372. 



wood, perforated by Teredina, 24 



.... wood, petrifaction of, 89. 

 Fossils, arrangement of, in strata, 5. 

 . . . , freshwater and marine, 27. 

 .... in chalk at Faxi 

 .... in faluns of Touraine, 176. 



of chalk and greensand, 245, 247. 



of Connecticut beds, 349. 



uf coralline crag, 171. 



.... of devonian system, 421. 



.... of eocene strata in United States, 232, 



233. 

 ....of Isle of Wish:. . - 

 .... oflias,Sr 

 .... of London clay, 21?. 

 .... of lower greensand, 258. 

 . . . of Ludlow formation, 434 



Fossils of Maestricht beds, 237. 



... of mountain limestone, 403. 



... of new red sandstone, 333, 3S5. 



... of old red sandstone. 415. 



... of oolite, 265, 301, 308. 



... of Permian limestone, 353, 355. 



... of Purbeck, 293. 



... of red crag, 170. 



... of Bichmond, U. S., strata, 331. 



... of Solenhofen, 302. 



... of upper greensand, 251. 



... of wealden, 261. 



.. ., petrifaction of, 39-43. 



. . ., test of the age of formations, 97. 

 Fossiliferous strata, tabular view of, 456. 

 Fournet, M, on mineral veins of Auvergne, 



624 



on disintegration of rocks, 594 



...., on quartz, 563. 



Fox, Mr. B."W., 627, on Cornish loes, 62S. 



Fox, Eev. Mr., on extinct quadrupeds of Isle 



of Wieht, 209. 

 Freshwater beds of Isle of Wight, 20S. 

 .... deposits in valley of Thames, 152. 

 . . . ., land-shells numerous in, 27. 

 Freshwater formations of Auvergne, 197. 

 Freshwater formations, how distinguished from 



marine, 27, 28, 30, 32. 

 .... associated with Norfolk drift, 132. 

 Freshwater shells in brown-coal near Bonn, 



539. 

 Fucus vesiculosus, 33, 242. 

 Fulgur eanaliculatus, 181. 

 Fuller's earth of oolite, 314. 

 Fundy, Bay of, impressions in red mud of, 



346. 

 Fungi a patellaris (recent), 403. 

 Fusulina cylindrica, 409. 

 Fusus contrarius, 170; F. quadrieostatus, 



1S1. 



Galapagos Islands, animals of, 825. 

 GaUocerdo latidetis, tooth of, 215. 

 ffal&ritea albogalerus, 245. 

 GaUioTiella distane, G.ferruginea, in tripoli, 



25. 

 Ganges, buried soils in delta of, 384 

 Garnets in altered rock, 480. 

 Gases, subterranean rocks altered by, 595. 

 Gault of upper cretaceous, 250. 

 Gavarnie, flexures of strata near, 59. 

 Geoloey defined, 1. 

 Gergovia, Hill of, 553. 

 GervilUa ancepa, lower greensand, 259. 

 Giant's Causeway, columns at, 483. ■ 



basalt, age of, ISO. 



Gibbes, E. "W., cited, 233. 



Girgenti, limestone of, 156. 



Glacial phenomena, northern, origin of, 138. 



Glaciers, Alpine, 146. 



.... on Caernarvonshire mountains, 137. 



Glasgow, marine strata near, 154 



Glenrov, parallel roads of, 86. 



Glen Tilt, granite of, 566. 



Glyph&a r dtibia, coal-measures, 885. 



Gneiss, altered by granite, 570. 



in Bernese Alps, 599. 



.... at Cape "Wrath, 56S. 



near Christiania, 570. 



described, 5S8. 



Gold, age of, in Ireland, 629. 



age of, in Ural Mountains, 630. 



Goldfuss, Prof., on reptiles in coal-field, 897. 

 Gon iatites crenistria, G. evolutue, 405 ; G. 



LUteri,3S6. 

 Gorgonia infundibuU/ormU, 352. 

 Goppert, Prof., on beds of coal, 360. 



on petrifaction, 40. 



Gradual increase of strata, 22. 

 Graham's Island, 488, 529. 

 Grampians, old red conglomerates in. 47. 

 Granite described, 7, 560. 



, passage of, into trap, 5C5. 



, porphyritic, 563. 



