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INDEX. 
Mines, Imperial Administration and Corps of, great obligations of 
the authors to many of its officers, Preface et passim. (See 
Cancrine and Tcheffkine). „ 
, copper and magnetic iron, at Nijny Tagilsk, 373. 
magnetic iron ore at Blagodat, 37J. 
, copper and garnets near Bogoslofsk, 39.1. 
iron, at Bakalski (South Ural), 429. 
gold, at Berezofsk near Ekaterinburg, 476. 
., at Chrestovodsvisgensk, 480. 
, at Peshanka near Bogoslofsk, 482. 
south of Miask, 488. 
Mining establishments in the Ural, general account of, 337. 
( terms, use of English words in the southern coal dis- 
trict of Russia, 107. 
Miocene tertiary deposits in Russia, abundant examples of them 
in Podolia, Volliyuia, Bessarabia, &c., 283 et seq. 
South Russia, 294. 
-, general accountof, 283 el seq. 
in Southern Russia, 293. 
of oolitic structure in certain parts of 
, section of, at Taganrog, 296. 
, the oceanic deposits of Ust-Urt belong 
to this group, 325. , , on 
Miuss and Krinka rivers, sections of carboniferous rocks at, 9J. 
, hand of chalk near, 266. 
Milva (Tinian range), carboniferous rocks on the, 415. 
Modiola limestone (Permian) of Itshalki, 167. 
Modinla abundant in the Permian beds of Russia and England, 
209, 217. 
Moldavia and Wallachia, humus of, 564. 
Mollusca, absence of fossil remains of, ill the sandy and argilla- 
ceous Devonian beds near Lake Onega, 48. .... 
0 f Devonian rocks of Russia, many of them identical 
with published Devonian species, 63. 
Montieularia Sternbvrgii (lly Anaphora Stembcrgii of Fischer), 
description of, 624. 
Moraines, heaps of detritus on the flanks of the Alps believed 
by Agassiz to be, 508. 
' , the resemblance of the Swedish marine-formed 
“ osar” to such heaps, 543. 
7 disbelief of the authors in their presence in countries 
where glaciers have never existed, 534 et seq. 
Morgnnnof, Permian rocks covered up between Kongur and 
this place, 353. , ,, 
Mor-kohl, Heltucrsen s name for coal of \ a dai hills, 71. 
Morris, Mr., description of Permian plants, 219 ; on Polish mio- 
cenc fossils, 292 
Moscow, limits of the great carboniferous basin °y°> ' 7 ; 
, white limestone of, the central division of the carbo - 
niferous limestone of Russia, 79. 
■, described, 80. 
exposed on the banks of the Oka, 81. 
section of, on the Unja, a tributary 
Msta, river, sections on its banks of Devonian and carboniferous 
rocks, 45, 70, 71. 
Mtzensk, on the Zueha, grotesque, calcareous Devonian strata, 
57. 
Muchty (South Ural), serpentine of, 45.i. 
Mudstones, resemblance of the Silurian blue clay of St. Peters- 
burg to the, 26*. 
Mud volcanoes, changes produced by, 575. 
Multik (Tchussovaya), cliffs of carboniferous limestone of, 386. 
Munster, Count, his account of the fossils of St. Cassian, 39* ; 
of some fossils of the kupfer scliiefer, 215. 
Murchison, Mr., the origin and progress of liis researches in 
Russia (Prefaee). 
, liis work, “ the Silurian System,” applied to 
different parts of the world and referred to, 1 et passim. 
, his memoirs on the Devonian rocks, 3, 4, 62. 
his communication on the palceozoic rocks of 
, Jurassic rocks in the neighbourhood of, 230, 23o. 
basin, Jurassic fossils of, 236. 
section of Jurassic rocks at the Sparrow; Hills near, 237. 
-, moderate dimensions of northern erratic blocks in the 
parallel of, 523. ... 
Moskwa or Moskva river, relations of the white carboniferous 
limestone on the hanks of, 80. 0 „. 
, Jurassic strata on the banks of, 230. 
, ferruginous sands aud grit (Jurassic) 
at various places on the hanks of the, 240. 
Mosquitoes, their attacks a great impediment to geological re- 
searches in northern Russia, 173, 391. . 
Motsha river, south of the Kama, northern limit of the ancient 
Caspian extends to the, 325. 
Moultic, on the Tchussovaya, carboniferous fossils collected at, 
125. 
Mountains, absence of, in Russia in Europe, 20*. 
— , the existence of, necessary for the applicability ol 
the glacial theory, 530. 
Norway, 11*. 
, his views on the elevation of the Highland 
crystalline rocks “ en masse ” applied to Sweden, 17*. 
, his first suggestion of the term Permian 
(Preface), 138, 140, 200. 
— •, liis new Geological Map of England, 202. 
, his re-examination of the Permian deposits of 
Germany, 199 et seq. 
- , his work on the geology of Cheltenham, 238. 
- iehthyolites from Russia named after him by 
Dr. Mantell and Professor Owen, 240, 636. 
, Jurassic plant named after him by Dr. Gup- 
pert, 240. 
, bis description of Liassic conglomerates in 
Scotland, 248. 
— , liis comparison of Russian with Himalayan 
ammonites, 256. 
, his early suggestion that the Ncocomiau would 
prove to he the equivalent of the lower greensand, 260. 
—, his view of iheBasin of Mayence, 282. 
, liis memoir (with Prof. Sedgwick) on the ter- 
tiary oolites of Styria and Hungary, 294. 
, on the liypcrsthcne rocks of Radnor, 392. 
, Ins observations (with Prof. Sedgwick) on 
metamorphism in the Alps referred to, 426. 
vase of avanturine presented to him by the 
Emperor of Russia, 434. 
■, his memoir on the geography of the South 
Ural, 451. 
his discourse on the production of Siberian 
gold, 483, 648. 
-, his application through the Grand Duke 
— j LlIB mitvugii tue> uiuuu u'uu 
Michael for a skeleton of the Bos Aurochs granted, 503. 
, his method of colouring geological maps (see 
Description of Plates, 655 et seq.). 
, his distinction between local and foreign drift, 
476. 
, his views on the transport of blocks by ice- 
bergs, 509, 529. 
on waves of translation, 533. 
on the striation of rock surfaces, 534. 
, his proofs of upheavals of modern strata, 538. 
Murchisonia, genus in the palaeozoic systems of Russia, 225, 
370, 408, 457. 
Murom, Fusulina limestone to the north of, 87. 
sands around it, 165. 
Muschclkalk, fossiliferous beds of Mount Bogdo allied to, 195. 
Mustel (Esthonia), Pcntamerus band at, 34*. 
Naphtha, ebullitions of, in the Isle of Tcheleken (Caspian), 3 13. 
, Silurian schists saturated with, on the Ukhta, 414. 
Narva, castle of, built on ungulite grit. 28. 
, falls of this river over lower Silurian limestone, 34. 
, recession of the falls of this river explained, 34. 
Nautilus, a species of, supposed to exist in the magnesian lime- 
stone, 210. 
