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INDEX. 



KAMSKATKA, mammoth found 

 there, 179 

 Kotzebue Sound, ice-cliffs of, 192 

 Krestowkoje, trees at, 183 



LA CELLE, tufa of, 189 

 Land-connection with the 

 Faroes, objection to, 

 199 

 ,, between Europe, Faroes, 

 and Greenland, 197 

 Land-ice theory, objections to con- 

 sidered, 246 

 Land-surface, absence of in Terti- 

 ary strata, 168 

 Langley, Prof., on temperature 

 of space, 20 

 ,, observations at 



Mount-Whit- 

 ney, 20 

 ,, remarkable con- 



clusion by, 32 

 Le Coq., Prof. H., on change of 



climate, 3 

 Lena, river, mammoth found 



there, 179 

 Leverrier's f ormulseof eccentricity, 



38 

 Liachof Archipelago, mammoth 



found there, 179 

 Life on earth, testimony of geology 

 as to age of, 266 

 „ age of, 299 

 Limax agrestis, 184 

 Limncea auricularia, 183 

 Lockyer, Mr., on evolution of the 

 planets, 307 

 ,, cited, 309 



Lyell, Sir Charles, on change of 

 climate, 3 

 ,, on geographical con- 

 ditions, 97 

 „ on Mississippi, 275 



M'CLURE, Capt., Arctic trees, 

 193 

 M'Farland, Prof., on eccentricity 



of earth's orbit, 38, 39 

 Mackenzie River, 192 

 Maak, M., shells found by, 183 



Main characteristics of Interglacial 



climate, 185 

 Mammoth in Siberia, 178 

 ,, ,, Europe, 186 



,, Interglacial, 184 



, , Glacial as well as Inter- 



glacial, 190 

 ,, Dr. Rae, on, 191 



Mars, why not under glaciation, 92 

 Mecham, Lieut., on Arctic trees, 



193 

 Meech, cited, 48 

 Melville Island, wood found at, 



193 

 Merklin, Prof., on limit of wood, 



183 

 Meyer, Dr., meteoric theory, 



265 

 Mild polar climates, 143 



Mr. A. R. 

 Wallace on, 153-157 

 ,, ,, due to inter- 



tropical water, 166 

 Miocene glacial deposits of Italy 

 172 

 ,, period, date of, 174 



Misconception, fundamental, 46 

 Mississippi, amount of sediment 



carried by, 275 

 Moisture in relation to glaciation, 



85 

 Mollusca of the tufa, evidence 



from, 190 

 Montpellier, tufa of, 188 

 Moret, in the valley of the Seine, 



deposit near, 188, 190 

 Mosley, Canon, on insufficiency of 



gravity to shear ice, 248 

 Motion in space, 291 



„ ,, primal cause of 

 sun's light and 

 heat, 287 

 Motion of stars, difficulty of 

 estimating, 313 

 ,, ,, our knowledge 



of, dependent 

 on their direc- 

 tions, 313 

 Mount-Whitney expedition, 20 

 Mountains, carved out by denuda- 

 tion, 278 

 Mousson on the lowering of the 

 melting point of ice, 215, 227 



