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INDEX. 
Bogoslofsk, account of the rocks in the environs of, 395. 
, cohl mine near, 482. 
Bohemia, Silurian rocks and fossils of (near Prague), re- 
sembling those of England, 3*. 
f oss ;i con tents of the cretaceous system oi, 2bl. 
Bohtling’k, M., his notice of injected greenstone in Finland and 
Lapland, 22*. , 
his account of modern glacio-nuviatde action 
in Lapland, 5(17 . 
, his proof of the excentric transport of blocks 
from the Scandinavian chain, 528. 
and M. Siljestrom, their remarks on the form 
of the mounds of detritus in Scandinavia, 555. 
Bolshaya or Volshaya Gora (Ural Pass), the height of, 360. 
Bone-bed of the Devonian series in the gorge of the Priksha 
(see Corrigenda, Priutchka), 46. 
Bones of mammoth. See also Mammoth. 
associated with gold, 478. 
in the gold detritus of Peshanka, 482. 
— with gold alluvia at Soimanofsk, 488. 
superstitious feelings of the Bashkirs and 
Samoyedes concerning, 491. 
- found in Siberia, 494. 
drifted short distances only to their present 
localities in Siberia, 497 , 498. 
found at Taganrog, 502. 
Boring necessary for determining the value of the carboniferous 
series beneath the red rocks of Bachmutli, 1 19. 
Borsk (Orenburg), Permian strata near the fort of, 149. 
Borysthenes or Dnieper, account of the changes at its mouth 
since the time of Herodotus, 573. 
Boue, M. A., his opiuion concerning the age of the Carpathian 
sandstone coincides with that of the authors, 264. 
his map of Turkey referred to, 656. 
Boulder clay of Denmark, 541. 
Boulder drift, its Scandinavian and Lappish source of, 55b. 
Boulders. Sec also Blocks, erratic. 
. — , resemblance of detached local blocks of siliceous grit 
at Moscow to, 239. 
of syenite and quart/, (local drift) on the east flank 
of Eraolski-Gora (South Ural), 430. 
, absence of (northern or erratic), on the flanks of the 
Ural, 527. 
, ages of those found in Denmark, 541. 
, found in Guiana, 550. 
Boulonnais, palaeozoic series in that district of France, 4 
, identity of the Devonian of the Don with, 62. 
Boundaries, geological, of central Russia, 20. 
Bowman, Mr., Iris investigations concerning the upper Silurian 
rocks of North Wales, 2*. . 
Brachiopodous shells, the best carboniferous and 1 crmian types, 
135, 207. . . ... 
, number of Permian species which arc 
found also in the carboniferous rocks, 216. 
Braheva (near Cargopol), carboniferous limestone at, /0. 
; erratic blocks at, 5 1 7. 
Brandt, Professor, on the Cetotherinm Ratlikii , 301. 
Braun, Prof. A., of Darmstadt, his account of the shells ot the 
Mayence basin, 382. 
Bravais, M., his memoir on the elevation of Norway, 
Breccia, loose argillaceous, auriferous, south of Miask, 488. 
, porphyntic, of Mount Sabliu, 411. 
Breslau (Silesia), pabeozoic rocks near, 3*, 39*, 6 j 2. 
Briggetten Klosler (Esthonia), peculiar mineral character ot 
the Ungulite grit at, 28. . 
Brine springs (Devonian), at Staraia Russa, 45 ; (Permian), at 
Solikamsk, 145; at Totma, 178; at Balachna, 179. 
Brittany and Normandy, Silurian and Devonian rocks of, 4. 
Brongniart, M. Ad., his remarks on the fossil plants of the Per- 
mian system, 219. (See vol. ii.) 
Bronnitzi, Jurassic fossils found near, 234. 
Brontes, a fossil genus found in the Ludlow Rocks in England, 
and in Gothland, 18*. 
Brora oolites, upheaval of solid granitic rocks through, Swedish 
analogy to, 17*. 
Brora, Suthcrlandshire, similarity of Russian contemporaneous 
beds to the oolites of, 248. 
— , markings on sandstone near, 550. 
Brown, Mr., and Mr. Binney, their list of the fossils of the red 
marls of Manchester, 215. 
Bruunow, Baron de, his services to the authors (Preface, vii.). 
Bublia ( Kovno), Silurian rocks found near, 34*. 
— - — , erratic blocks from Sweden, found at, 5 1 0. 
Bucli, Baron Leopold von, his suggestion to Mr. Murchison 
(Preface, vi.). 
his account of the erupted rocks of 
Norway referred to, 13*. 
, his theory concerning the cause of 
the fractured surface of granite hills, 16*. 
, his account of the Cystidece , a new 
family of Encriuites (Splueroniles, Ac.), 38. 
1 hi s opinion of the age of the Bogdo 
limestones, 196. 
, his view of the Jurassic rocks and 
fossils of eastern Russia confirmed, 247. 
his application of the term ‘ Medi- 
terranean type ’ to the secondary rocks of the south of 
Europe, 249. 
, his opinion concerning the age of 
the Carpathian sandstone adopted, 264. 
— , his account of the tertiary fossils 
from Butschak, near Kief, on the Dnieper, 286. 
— , his determination of Silurian and 
carboniferous rocks in the Ural by fossils, 338. 
Bnckland, Dr., the want of such an explorer of caverns in 
Russia, 506. 
, his views of glacial action in Britain, 550. 
Bucklamlite, crystals of, in granite, at Verkhoturie, 395. 
Budcvich (near llielef), Devonian fossils found at, 58. 
Bugulina, copper grits and sandstones beneath the white and 
yellow limestones of this place containing fossils of the 
Permian series, 1 56. 
Building stoue, excellent, in the carboniferous sandstone of 
Goradofka (Donetz), 97. 
, the steppe limestone useful for this purpose, 299. 
Bulanka valley (west of Zlatahst), mineral structure of, 429. 
Bulgur, basin of, the Northern Aralo-Caspiau tract so called by 
M. Jasikoff, 325. 
Bunter saudstein, exact definition of, 200. 
Burmeister, M., his work on Trilobites referred to, 4. 
Busuluk river, Pallas’s account of the chalk of, 272. 
Butera, the late Prince of, his assistance, 389. 
Butschak, eocene tertiary beds on the Dnieper at, 283. 
, list of tertiary fossils of, collected by M. Dubois and 
named by M. von Bncb, 286. 
Catamites and other plants of the coal of Russia, 112 ; of the 
siliceous (Jurassic) grits of Moscow, 240. 
Catamites ijiyas, a Russian Permian species, 160. 
Calamopora fibrosa, Eichwald. See Chtetetes Petropolitanas. 
‘ Calcaires mnets,’ limestones, at first so called, on the river 
Suchona, 178; now proved to he fossiliferous. See Table, 
222 and 651. 
Calcareous beds. See also Limestones. 
(Silurian) of the St. Petersburgh Hills, 28, 30. 
— of Russia overlying the ‘ pleta’ lime- 
stone, 34*. 
(Devonian), general character and appearance 
of those of Ottrada, 57. 
, of Voroncje, fossiliferous, 60. 
— , notice of a grit overlying the 
lower carboniferous rocks of Michaelofsk, 12S. 
(tufaceous), reposing on carboniferous strata 
at Putshiuo on the Oka, 82. 
• associated with Permian beds on the hanks 
of the Dioma, 151. 
