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INDEX. 



Fishes of Old Eed Sandstone, 415. 



of Wealden, 262. 



Fissures filled with metallic matter, C21. /See- 

 Miner a\ veins. 

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

 ...., cited, 260, 293, 297,303. 

 Fleming, Dr., on scales of fiph in old red, 414 



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



, on trap-dike in Fifeshire, 557. 



Flints of chalk, 11,243. 

 Flora, carboniferous, 360. 

 ...., cretaceous, 265. 



of London clay, 216. 



, permian, 356. 



Fldtz, term explained. 90. 



Flysch, explanation of term, 231. 



Foliation, term defined, 606. 



Fontainebleau, Gr6s de, 184, 194. 



FooPprint of bird, 347. 



Footprints of reptiles, 387, 347, 898, 899, 418. 



Foraminifera, chalk, 26 ; tertiary, 179, 215, 



227, 230, 231 ; paleozoic, 409, 444. 

 Forbes, Mr. David, on foliation, 007. 

 Forbes, Prof. E., on Bembridge series, 185, 

 187. 



. , ., on Caradoc sandstone, 438. 



..., on Cystideffi, 439. 



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

 192. 



..., on Mull leaf-bed, 180. 



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



..., on cretaceous fossil shells, 254. 



..., on fossils of the faluns, 176. 



.. ., on fossils in drift in South Ireland, 137. 



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



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



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



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

 riod, 172. 



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



.., on strata at Atherfleld, 257. 

 .., on volcanic rocks of oolite period, 555, 

 ..,on depth of animal life in JEgean, 35, 

 143. 



.., on geographical provinces, 256. 

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



, on the Alps, 149. 

 Forchhammer, on scratched limestone, 127. 

 Forest, fossil, in Norfolk. 133, 136. 

 Forest marble of oolite, 305. 

 Forfarshire, old red sandstone in, 598. 

 Formation, term defined, 3. 

 Fossil ferns in carbonaceous shale, 314. 



. . . footsteps, 335, 337, 338. 



... forest in Isle of Portland, 297. 



. , . forest in Nova Scotia, 376. 



. . . forest near Wolverhampton, 374. 



. . . plants in wealden, 264. 



. . . remains in caves, 159. 



, . . shells from Etna, 523 ; near Grignon, 226. 



, . . shells of Mayence strata, 190 : of Yirginia, 

 181. 



, . . shells, passim. 



..., term defined, 4. 



. . . trees erect, 372. 



... wood, perforated by Teredina, 24. 



... wood, petrifaction of, 39. 

 Fossils, arrangement of, in strata, 5. 



..., freshwater and marine, 27. 



... in chalk at Faxoe, 238. 



... in faluns of Touraine, 176. 



... of chalk and grecnsand, 245, 247. 



... of Connecticut beds, 349. 



... of coralline crag, 171. 



... of devonian system, 421. 



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

 233. 



... oflsle of Wight, 208. 



... oflias, 317, 328. 



... of London clay, 218. 



... of lower greensand, 258. 

 . . of Ludlow formation, 434. 



Fossils of Maestricht beds, 237. 



... of mountain limestone, 403. 



... of new red sandstone, 833, 385. 



... of old red sandstone. 415. 



... of oolite, 205. 301, 308. 



... of Permian limestone, 358, 355. 



... of Purbeck, 293. 



... of red eras', 170. 



... of Eichmond, U. S., strata, 831. 



... of Soleuhofen, 302. 



... of upper greensand, 251. 



... of wealden, 261. 



. . ., petrifaction of, 89-43. 



. . ., 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. E. W., 627, on Cornish loes, 628. 

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



of Wight, 209. 

 Freshwater beds oflsle of Wight, 208. 

 .... 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, 83, 242. 

 FuJgur canaliculatus, ISl. 

 Fuller's earth of oolite, 314. 

 Fundy, Bay of, impressions In red mud of, 



846. 

 Fungia paiellaris (recent), 403. 

 FusuUna cylindrica, 409. , 



Fusris contrarius, 170; F. quadricostatm, 



181. 



Galapagos Islands, animals of, 325. 

 Galeocerdo laiidens, tooth of, 215. 

 Galerites albogalerus, 245. 

 Gallionella disians, 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. 

 Geolosy defined, 1. 

 GergoVia, Hill of, 553. 

 Germllia anceps, lower greensand, 259. 

 Giant's Causeway, columns at, 483. - 



basalt, age of, 180. 



Gibbes, E. W., cited, 233. 



Girgenti, limestone of, 156. 



Glacial phenomena, northern, origin of, 188. 



Glaciers, Alpine, 146. 



on Caernarvonshire mountains, 137. 



Glasgow, marine strata near, 154 



Glenroy, parallel roads of, 86. 



Glen Tilt, granite of, 566. 



Glyphma ? dubia, coal-measures, 385. 



Gneiss, altered by granite, 570. 



.... in Bernese Alps, 599. 



at Cape Wrath, 568. 



.... near Christiania, 570. 



.... described, 588. 



Gold, age of, in Ireland, 629. 



...., ai;e of, in Ural Mountains, 63ft 



Goldfuss, Prof, on reptiles in coal-field, 39T. 



Goniatites crenistria, G. evolutus, 408; G, 



Listeri, 386. 

 Gorgonia mfundihuliformis, 852. 

 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, 565. 

 . . . ., porptiyritic, 563. 



