INDEX. 



317 



Antarctic ice-sheet, little affected 

 by transmitted heat, 

 218 

 ,, mean temperature 



of, 221 

 ,, interior of, warmer 



than surface, 217 

 Antarctic regions, 69 



Sir Wyville Thom- 

 son on, 203 

 ,, Wilkes and Ross on 



snowfall of, 79 

 Aphelion, influence of winter in, 39 

 ,, effect of winter solstice 

 in, 83 

 Aqueous vapour as a "trap" for 

 heat, 31 

 ,, as a "screen," 32 



,, an important result 



from, 34 

 ,, influence on snow- 



line, 47 

 Arctic America, ice-cliffs of, 192 

 , , during interglacial 



times, 192 

 ,, why interglacial de- 



posits so seldom 

 found in, 193 

 Arctic flora, Prof. J. Geikie on 



distribution of, 97 

 Arctic mild climates, Sir W. Thom- 

 son on, 148-150 

 ,, Mr. A. R. Wallace 



on, 153-157 

 ,, accounted for, 147 



Atlantic, North : its three sources 



of heat, 259 

 Atmosphere, heat cut off by, 37 

 Awamka, shells at the mouth of, 

 183 



BALTIC filled with ice during 

 Glacial Epoch, 247 



Banks's Land, wood found at, 193 



Belgium, mammoth remains found 

 at, ISO 



Belt, Mr., cited, 184 



Berendt, Prof., on German inter- 

 glacial beds, 133 



Bodies, non-luminous in space, 310 



Boulder-clays of Germany, 133 



Brandt, M., cited, 182 



Boussingault on lowering of melt- 

 ing point of ice, 215 

 Brown, Dr. Robert, on Greenland 

 ice, 64-66 

 cited, 67, 69 

 Buried forests, climatic condition 

 of, 117-119 

 ,, under Carse- clays, 



117 



CAITHNESS, glaciation of, by 

 land-ice, 170 



Canary Islands, 188 

 laurel, 188 



Canstadt, in Wurtemberg, tufa of, 

 189, 190 



Carse-clays of Scotland, 115 



,, " flour of rock," 115 



,, winter temperature of, 



period, 115 

 ,, sea-level higher than at 

 present, 117 



Cataclysmic Theories of geological 

 climate, 11 



Cause, Sir W. Hamilton's defini- 

 tion of, 103 



a Centauri, illustrations from dis- 

 tance of, 314 



Chambers, Robert, on moraines on 

 raised beach, 116 



Chart of path of ice, 133 



Chukchi, peninsula of, mammoth 

 found there, 179 



Climate, evidence of alterations of, 

 160 



Cold, storage of, 83 



Collisions between stellar bodies, 

 effects of described, 302 



Combustion theory of sun's heat 

 untenable, 264 



Conduction, influence of, on ice, 

 216 



Continental ice must of necessity 

 be thickest at centre, 234 



Continental ice, difference of from 

 a glacier, 202 



Continental ice at present on low 

 lands, 88 



Credner, Prof., on German inter- 

 glacial beds, 133 



Cyclas calyculata, 183 



Cyrena fluminalis, 131, 134, 1S4 



