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INDEX. 
Gritstones of the northern carboniferous districts of Russia 
subordinate to the carboniferous limestone, 105. 
of Smeof near Teliistopol, 161. 
Grits (carboniferous) containing goniatites, 127. 
of Artiusk, 129. 
containing whetstones, found near the 
mouth of the Ussa, 411. 
used for millstones, and carboniferous 
limestones of the Timan range, 414. 
— — and conglomerates, near Orslt, 446. 
and conglomerates (Devonian) of Akri-tau on the eastern 
flank of the South Ural, 460. 
(Permian), calcareous and fossiliferous, occurring on the 
banks of the Ufa, 358. 
(Jurassic), siliceous beds of, at Koroshovo (Moscow), 236. 
of Moscow, their geological position among the 
Jurassic rocks, 239. 
(tertiary) of Kaltehedansk, 366. 
of Verkhoturie, 395. 
Grobovo (Ural), crystalline limestone at, 355. 
, road to the east of, 358. 
Grodno, tertiary beds in the neighbourhood of, 285. 
Gromatucha, Babka, tfcc., sections of lower Permian rocks near 
these rivers, 1 42. 
Grujefka or Grugefka (Donate), anthracite of, 101. 
Grits (Kovno), grey Silurian limestone worked at, 34*. 
Gruskaya on the Yeskino, coal at, 96. 
Gruznu'shinsk (South Ural), greenstone porphyry of, 445. 
Grypham di/atata characterizes the Oxfordian beds of Russia, 
232 to 217. 
Guberlinski Hills, plutonic rocks of, 447 ; sketch of, 448, 954. 
Guiana, large boulders found in, 550. 
Gumcschefsk (Ural), copper ores of, 473. 
Gurmaya Hills, or Gourmaya (South Ural), sketch of, 450, 654 ; 
carboniferous limestone of, 132. 
— , Permian beds from Verclnii-Ozernaia to the, 
450. 
Gutbier, Capt., his account of coal-field and plants of Zwickau, 
199. 
Gypsum (Devonian) of the central members of the Devonian 
system in the Valdai llills, 44. 
1 at Diiuliof in Courland, and elsewhere on 
the Duna, 51. 
of the river Sinara (Siberia), 422. 
(Permian) with limestone and copper deposits near 
Perm, 142. 
and alabaster near Sterlitamak, 150. 
, concretionary masses of, with caverns, in the 
valley of the Ik, 156. 
, lofty cliff's of, at Bannikova, 167. 
of the Pincga and Tinga, and its relations 
with the carboniferous limestone, 172. 
, splendid gorge of, on the Dwina, 173. 
occurring west of the Timan range, 412. 
(miocene tertiary) overlying the tertiary rocks on the 
Dniester in Podolia, 295. 
> bed of doubtful age (probably Devonian) at Bagariatsk 
on the east flank of the Ural, 423. 
Hall, Mr. J., his survey and paUcozoic fossils of New York, 4*. 
, Sir James, his application of De Saussnre’s views with 
regard to striated and polished rocks, 549. 
Hardwick, General, his collection of Nepaul fossils, 257. 
Harmodites distam. See Syrinyopora distam. 
parallelus of Fischer. See Syrinyopora parallels. 
Heights marked In the Map, the authorities for and extent of 
accuracy of, 21. 
Helmersen, Colonel, obligations of the authors to. (See Preface.) 
, his observations with regard to the eleva- 
tion of the lower Silurian clay, 31. 
, bis account of inflammable bituminous 
schist alternating with fossiliferous Silurian limestones on 
the river Jemmbacli, 34. 
Helmersen, Colonel, his geological map, Preface, 245, 655. 
, his view of the igneous origin of the mag- 
netic iron ore of Nijny Tagilsk and Blagodat, 371, 379. 
, his account of the Ust Urt, Aral, &c., 325, 
652. 
, his illustrations of metamorphic action in 
the Ural, 402. 
, his discovery of palaeozoic fossils east of 
Troitsk, 442. 
and M. Hofmann, their work on the South 
Ural referred to, 445. (See Preface.) 
Ilenslow, Prof., his memoir on the Isle of Anglesea, 398. 
Herbivorous cetacean, remains of, found at Taman, 302. 
Herodotus, his account of the Borysthcncs (Dnieper) compared 
with the present condition of that river, 573. 
, his account of the state of the Black Sea in his 
time, 574. 
Herscliel, Sir John, his suggestion with regard to the cause of 
ice in certain eaves, 1 87. 
Hesse Cassel, division of the Bunter Sandstein into two bands 
in, 202. 
Heulamlite and stilbite, these minerals present in the basaltic 
rock of Tchaitzin-mis (Timan range), 415. 
Hiatus that exists iu Russia between the palseozoic and the 
Jurassic deposits, 256, 
Hills, of carboniferous limestone of a singular subconical shape, 
on the left hank of the Bielaya near Sterlitamak, 130. 
Himalaya Chain, fossils of, compared with those of the Jurassic 
rocks of Russia, 256. 
Hindoo Kush, this range formed the borders of a vast ancient 
Caspian, 298. 
Hindostan, imperfect state of our knowledge of the palseozoic 
rocks in, 6*. 
Ilisinger, M., accuracy of his descriptions, 16*. 
, his correct description of the Oland and Gothland 
beds, 19. 
, Uis description of a Gothland coral now called 
Tryplasma, 613. 
Hitchcock, Prof., his report on the geology of Massachussets, 5. 
Ilochland, porphyritic island of, its production, 24*. 
Hofmann, Prof., his description of the Isle of Ilochland referred 
to, 24*. 
• , Uis identification of the beds near Kief with 
older tertiary deposits, 285. 
and M. Helmersen, their work on the South 
Ural referred to, 445. 
, his view of the dissemination of gold in rocks, 
483. 
Hollaberg (Sweden), alum-slate seen at, 15. 
Holoptychins, remains of, at Kipet, 58. 
Hombe'rg, Mount (Gothland), fossils found at, 18*. 
Hommaire de Hell, M., his account of the salt in the southern 
steppes of the Black and Caspian Seas, 197. 
, his investigations concerning the ter- 
tiary oolites of Kichenef in Bessarabia, 295. 
, his theory of the saltness of the Caspian 
considered, 308. 
— , his observations on the level of the Cas- 
pian, 321. 
Hopkins, Mr. \V., his views concerning lines of disturbance ap- 
plied on the great scale to the northern frontier of Russia, 
24. 
, his calculations concerning the force of waves of 
translation as a transporting power, 533. 
Horizontal position of the palmozoie rocks of Russia, 25. 
Silurian beds on the banks of the Is, an exception in 
the Ural mountains, 394. 
llorizontaHty of most of the rocks ill European Russia, 583. 
Hornblende interlaminated with limestone near Zlataust, 433. 
Honibleudic rocks, presence of, in the axis of the Ural on the 
Serebrianka, 382. 
Ilumbleton llill, near Sunderland, a Product us common in the 
magnesian limestone there, found also in Russia, 165. 
