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INDEX. 



Insects in ooHte, 809. 

 .... in Purbeck beds, 800, 

 Invertebrate animals, period of, 453. 

 Ireland, coal strata of, 359. 



, Devonian plants of, 414. 



...., drift in, 1S7. 



Isastrcea ohlonga, I. Tisbiiriensh, SOI, 



Ischia, volcanic cones in, 525. 



. . . ., post-olioeene strata of, 118, 



Isle of Wight, freshwater beds of, 210. 



Isomorphism, theory of, 464. 



Jackson-, Dr. C. T., analysis of fossil bones, 



144. 

 James, Capt., on fossils in drift, South Ireland, 



137. 

 Java, stream of sulphureous water, 223. 



, volcanoes of, 492. 



Jobert, M., on Hill of Gergovia, 553. 



Joints, 601. 



Jorullo, lava-stream of, 574. 



Junghuhn, Dr., on Javanese volcanoes, 492. 



Jura, alpine blocks on, 148. 



.... limestone, 303. 



. . . . , structure of, 55. 



Kangaroo, fossil and recent, jaws figured, 162. 

 Kaup, Prof., on footprints of Cheirotherium, 



337. 

 Kaye, Mr., on fossils of Southern India, 255. 

 Keeling Island, fragment of greenstone in, 242. 

 Keilhau, Prof, cited, 581, 593. 

 ...., on dike of greenstone, 478. 



, on foliation, 607. 



, on gneiss near Christiania, 570. 



, on granite, 571. 



Kelloway rock, 34. 



Kentish chalk, sandgalls in, 82. 



rag, lower cfi-eensand, 257. 



Keuper, the, 333. 



Kilauea, volcanic crater of, 490. 



Killas in granite of Cornwall, 593. 



Kilkenny yellow sandstone, fossil plants of, 



414. 

 Kimmeridge clay, 300. 

 King, Dr., on footprints of reptile, 398. 

 King, Prof., on Permian group and fossils, 



350. 

 Kirkdalo, cave at, 160. 

 Kyson, in Suffolk, strata of, 218. 



Labyrinthodon J^gert, tooth of, 338, 339. 



2mchygnatJmft, outline of, 340. 



Lacustrine strata of Auvergne, 202. 

 Lagoons at moutli of rivers, 33. 



of Bermuda Islands, 240. 



Lake craters of Eifel, 540. 



crater of Laach, 543. 



Lakes, deposits in, 8. 



Lamarck on bivalve mollusca, 29, 



Lamna elegans, tooth of, eocene, 215. 



Land, rising and sinking, 45. 



Landenian, or lower eocene beds, 235. 



Lapldification of fossils, 43. 



La Eoche, estuary of, 14. 



Laterite, 471, 478, 



Lava, 469. 



current, Auvergne, 546. 



current, Madeira, view of, 518. 



. . . ., relation to trap, 486. 



stream of Jorullo, 574. 



streams, effects of, 6. 



.... of Stromboli, 574. 



Lea, Mr., footprints of reptile discovered by, 



400. 

 Leaf-bed, miocene, of Isle of Mull, 179. 



in Madeira, 515. 



Lead-veins in Permian rocks, 630. 



Leda amygdaloides, 218 ; L. Deshayesiana, 



188; L. oblong a, 1.30. 

 Lehman on classification of rocks, 90. 

 Leibnitz, theory of. 94. 

 Leidy, Dr., on supposed cetaceans of the chalk, 



2^ 



Lepidodendra, 862. 



Le%)idodendron^ stem of, from Ireland, 414. 



Sternhergii, 363. 



Lepidostrohxis ormttus, 363. 

 Lepidotus giga.% scales of, 320. 



Manielli, teeth and scale of, 262. 



Leptczna de^yresi^a, 445 ; L. Moorei, 319. 

 Leptignite, or whitestone, 564. 

 Lewes, coomb near, 276. 

 Lias, 317. 



and oolite, origin of, 828. 



.... at Lyme Eegls, 324. 



, fossil plants of, 328. 



.... in United States, 330. 



period, volcanic rocks of, 555. 



. . . ., pin tonic rocks of, 579. 

 Liebig, Prof, on conversion of coal into lignita 

 394. 



, on preservation of fossil bones in caverns, 



161. 

 Lima gigantea, 818 ; L. Boperi^ 247. 

 Lima, South America, recent strata of, 120. 

 Limagne d'Auvergne, freshwater formations of, 



197. 

 Limburg, or upper eocene strata of Belgium, 



18S. 

 Lime in solution, source of, 42; scarcity of, in 



raetamorphic rocks, 617. 

 Limestone brecciated, 851. 



..., crystalline, 351. 



..., compact, 352. 



. . ., fossiliferons, 352. 



..., hippurite, 252. 



. . ., indusial, Auvergne, 200, 



... of Jura, 303. 



..., magnesian, .350. 



. . ., mountain, fossils of, 403. 



. . ., primary or metamorphic, 589. 



... of Devonian system in Germany, 421. 

 Limulus rotundatuff, coal-measures, 385. 

 Lindley, Dr., cited, 265. 

 Lingula flags of lower Silurian, 448. 

 Lmgula Bavisii, 448 ; L. Dumortieri, 173 ; L. 



Lewisii. 433. 

 Lipari Islands, rocks altered by gases in, 595. 

 Lithodomi in beaches of North America, 78. 

 .... in inland cliffs, 73. 

 JAthostrotion hasaltiforme, L. fioriforme, L. 



striatum^ 404. 

 Lituites gignnteufi, Silurian, 434. 

 Llandeilo flags, 439. 

 Loam defined, 13. 

 Lochabar, parallel roads of, 86. 

 Lodes. See Mineral veins, 620. 

 Loess of valley of Ehine, 121. 

 . . . ., fossil land-shells of, figured, 124. 

 Logan, Mr., on coal-measures of South "Wales, 



360. 



, on footprints in Potsdam sandstone, 452. 



. . • ., on fossil forest in Nova Scotia, 383. 

 . . . ., on lower Silurian rocks of Canada, 446. 

 London clay, 216. 



Lonsdale, Mr., cited, 158; on corals, 182. 

 . . . ., on corals of Normandy, 177. 



, on fossils in white chalk, 26. 



, on old red sandstone of South Devon, 



419. 

 . . . ., on Stonefield slate, 309. 

 Lonsdaleiajloriformis, carboniferous, 404. 

 Louvain, eocene strata near, 188. 

 Loven on shells of Norway, 119. 

 Lucina serrata., eocene, 216. 

 Ludlow formation, 430. 

 Lund, cited, 164. 



Lycett, Mr., on shells of oolite, 309. 

 Lycopodium densum, (recent), 363. 

 Lyme Eegis, lias at, 327. 

 Lym-Fiord invaded by the sea, 33. 

 ....,kelp in, 242. 

 Lymnona caudata, 211 ; L. longiscata, 29, 



209. 

 Lyons, coal-mine near, 374. 



MACActrs, tooth of, Eocene, 219. 



