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INDEX. 
Lithostrotionfloriforme, Fleming, description of Russian speci- 
men, G08. 
compared with the proposed sub-genus Caninia, 
620. 
Livonia, triangulation and survey of, by Struve, 21, 657. 
, Devonian roclcs of, 50. 
Lobva (North Ural), palaeozoic limestone near the, 396. 
Local drift, how mixed with northern in Russia, 25*, 511, 520 
et seq. 
Local origin exclusively of the Uralian drift, 476, 527. 
Longitude, great change of blocks in changing the meridian of, 
523. 
Lonsdale, Mr. VI. , bis suggestion with regard to the corals of the 
Devonian rocks, 1*. 
, his account of the palseozoic corals of Russia, 
591 et seq. 
, his determination of the corals of the Permian 
system, 206. 
Loss, its relation to the tebornozem or black earth of Russia, 561. 
Loven, Prof., his services rendered to the authors, 15 ; his ob- 
servations on deep sea shells, 552 ; his determination of 
the carboniferous limestone at Spitzbergen, 582. 
Low steppe of the Caucasus, 319. 
Lower greensand (Neocomian), development of, in different parts 
of Europe, 260. 
, its presence in Russia, Crimata, &c., 279, 280. 
Lower new red sandstone, resemblance of the Permian sands 
and marls to, 176, 202. 
of England, its rocks form part 
of the Permian system, 202, 204. 
Lower Volga, cretaceous and tertiary rocks of, 273, 275, 277. 
Lublino, white carboniferous limestone of Moscow at, 83. 
Ludlow rocks, psammite of Akri-tau resembles, 460. 
Lugan, foundries of, supplied with coal from the mines of Us 
pensk and Lissitchia-ilalka, 107, 109. 
, no upper J urassic rocks at, 249. 
, borings through the white chalk at, 266. 
Lugnos (Sweden), section at, exhibiting the lowest Silurian 
strata overlying and derived from the Azoic rocks, 16. 
Lukovka (North Ural), greenstone protruded at, 382. 
Lutsk, older tertiaries on the Styr near, 285. 
Lydian stone in the earhoniferons district of the arctic Ural, 410. 
at Kuvashi (South Ural), 432. 
Lyell, Mr., his work on North America alluded to, 5. 
_ j hi s observations on Uddevalla and other parts of 
Sweden, 328, 546. 
-, his views of the habitation and entombment of the 
Siberian mammoths, 496. 
, his view of the agency of icebergs in producing drift, 
509, 538. 
Machnufka (Poland), nuocene deposits at, 294. . 
Macintosh, Mr., his memoir on the supposed evidence of glaciers 
in North Wales, 556. . , 
Maclaren, Mr Charles, his observations on groovings of rocks, 
549 m 
Magdalenski mine, near Bogoslofsk, t'nc old produce of, 477. 
Magnesian limestone (Devonian) at Orel, &C., no et seq. 
_ (carboniferous) on the Stolobna rivulet, 
(Valdai), 72. 
v at the base of the car- 
boniferous group near Vitegra, 75. . 
- at the quarries of Miatch- 
kova (Moscow), 81 ; at Kolomna, 83. 
- character of carboniferous limestone at Kizilsk, 440. 
- limestone, the name wholly unfitted to characterize 
the Permian system, 139. 
(Permian), zone of, belonging to this 
system on the west flank of the Ural mountains, 147. 
, between llugulma and Sa- 
•, section at the Taischoffski 
mara and at Sergiefsk, 157. 
zavod (Kazan), 160. 
Magnesian limestone (Permian), at Teplova west of Arzamas, 
164. 
, true position as a member of 
the great palaeozoic series asserted, 202. 
Magnesite of the Guberlinski hills, 448. 
Magnetic iron, crystals of, west of the Ural and at Ekaterin- 
burg, 360, 361. 
in masses at Nijny Tagilsk, 370. 
with porphyry at Magnituaya, 445. 
ore, M. le Play’s remarks on the origin of, 380. 
. of Nijny Tagilsk, its igneous origin shown, 
377. 
. largely extracted from the hill of Blagodat 
(North Ural), 378. 
■ of Blagodat shown by Helmersen to be erup- 
tive, 379. 
— — — of the Katchkanar, 393. 
Magnets, natural, very powerful ones found in the Katchkanar 
peak (North Ural), 392. 
Magnitnava (South Ural), magnetic iron associated with por- 
phyry, at this place, 445. 
Makaricf, on the Unja, red marls (Permian) appearing at, 178. 
, shales (Jurassic) occurring at, 233. 
Makarofka, Mount (South Ural), mineral composition of, 429. 
Malachite, a cupriferous stalagmite, 374. 
found rarelv in the copper grits of the Permian series, 
144. 
, occurs in a great mass at Nijny Tagilsk, 373. 
Malayoraslovetz, Avicula antique found in the carboniferous 
rocks at, 209. 
Malmadisb, east of Kazan, flaggy limestones subordinate to the 
red rocks of the Permian series, 160. 
Malmisli, east of Kazan, red marl and pebbly rock (Permian) at, 
160. 
Malmoe Oen aud Malmoe Kalv (Christiania), Silurian fossils in, 
12*. 
Malton oolite, its identity with the Jurassic white limestone of 
Cracow and the Donetz, 253. 
Mammoth, habitation aud destruction of the, in Siberia, 492. 
, the former existence of this animal in northern Eu- 
rope in a cold climate, 495. 
, food of this animal (see Owen), 497. 
, bones of, associated with gold in the Berezof rivulet 
near Ekaterinburg, 478. 
, in the gold detritus of Peshanka (North 
Ural), 482. 
, associated with auriferous alluvia at Soi- 
manofsk (South Ural), and south of Miask, 488, 491. 
, superstitious feelings of the Bashkirs and 
Samoyedes regarding, 491. 
, probably drifted to some of the northern- 
most points of Siberia, 497, 498. 
, drift containing, at Taganrog, 502. 
Mamniskaya (Issetz), flagstones and schaalsteins of, 363. 
Man, changes effected by him in the course of the river Oxus, 
577 ; in diminishing other streams, 578. 
Mantell, Dr., names a Jurassic ichthvolite of Russia Gyrodiu 
Murchisoni, 240 ; his opinion on J urassic plants, 241 . 
Mantrica (Kalmiuss), fossils of the carboniferous limestone at, 
96. 
Maps, geological. See Strangways, Helmersen, Erman, Ivanitski, 
Le Play, Olivieri, Karpinski, Lissenko, &c. 
of the sea of Aral, corrections in the outline of, 327. 
of Russia aud the Ural mountains (Plate VI. and VII.). 
For authorities consulted by the authors, see Preface , 348, 
and description of plates, 655. 
of the Ural mountains, reference to, and to the coloured 
sections of, 348 et seq. 
Marble, crystalline, of Kushvinsk, 381. 
, enerimtal, at Syrostan (South Ural), with eruptive 
rocks, 434. 
, granular, with the granite of the steppes of the Ui, 
441 . 
