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INDEX. 
Meyer, Hennan Von, notice of ink 
bags with fossil internal shells of 
sepia, ii. 52 ; on ink bag in eontaet 
with belenmite, ii. 69; his descrip- 
tion of fossil mammalia of Georgens- 
gemiind, i. 91 ; his notices of fossil 
crustaceans, i, 388. 
Mineral bodies, proofs of design in, i. 
571. 
Milan, bones in museum at, i. 93. 
Miller, his Natural History of crinoi- 
dea, i. 417, 419, 426, 428, 432, 
436. 
Milliola, vast numbers in strata near 
Paris, i. 385. 
Minerals, proofs of design In compo- 
sition .and adaptaUons of, i. 57 1 . 
Miocene division of terdary strata, i. 78 ; 
period, mammalia of, i. 90. 
Mississipi, drifted trees in Delta of, i. 
509. 
Mltscherlich, his production of artificial 
crytals by fire, i. 41. 
Molassc, localides of lignite in, i. 510. 
Molusca, many genera of, in transition 
strata, i. 62. 
Mollusks, fossil remainsof, i. 295 ; na- 
ked, fossil remains of, i. 303. 
Monitors, character of recent species, 
i. 215^,type of, enlarged in fossil 
saurians, i. 220. 
Monpezat, granite enclosed in lava at, 
ii. 7. 
Molecules, successive condition of in 
crystalline bodies, i. 574, 576, 577. 
Monte Bolca, vastaccuroulaiion of fos- 
sil fishes at, i. 123 ; fishes perished 
suddenly, i. 123 ; fossil fishes of, i. 
266, 284 ; fishes of, rearranged by 
Agassiz, i. 285. 
Mont Maitre, list of vertebrata found 
at, i. 85 ; fishes of, i. 285. 
SIoTton, Dr., mosasaunis found by, in 
America, i, 216. 
Moses, his cosmonogy reconcileable 
with geology, i. 20 ; object of his ac- 
count of creation, i. 33. 
Mosaic history, in accordance with 
geology, i. 13. 
Mosaic cosmogony, attempts to recon- 
cile with geology, i. 16. 
Mosasaurus, great animal of Maes- 
tricht, i. 215 ; allied to monitors, i. 
215,217; described by Camper and 
Cuvier, i. 215 ; coeval with tne cre- 
taceous formation, i. 216 ; remains of 
where found, i. 216 ; length and cha- 
racter of, i. 217 ; teeth, peculiar cha- 
racter of, i. 218; vertebi'SG, number 
of, 1.219; extremities, character of, i. 
219 ; character, predicted by Cuvier, 
i. 220 ; a link between the monitors 
and iguanas, i. 220 ; habit, aquatic, 
i. 220. 
Moscow Bulletin Soc. Imp. de, obser- 
vations on coprolites in, i. 201. 
Moschus pygnimus, tendons in back of, 
i. 226. 
Milller, on eyes of insects, &c. i. 397. 
Multilocular shells, extinct genera of, 
i. 315. 
Munster, Count, foraminiferes dis- 
coveretl by, in Maestricht stone, ii. 
64 ; his discovery of mammalia at 
Georgensgemuud,i.91; ptcrodactyle 
described by, i. 224 ; his figures of 
homy sheatlis of belemuites,i. 375 ; 
his collecfion of crustaceans from 
Solenhofen, i. 387. 
Murchison, 5Ir., his discovery of fishes 
in old red sandstone, i. 277 ; Silu- 
rian system established by, i. 527 ; 
fishes, &c. found in Wolverhampton 
coal field by, ii. 43. 
Myliobates, fossil palates of, i. 291. 
Nacre, causes of preservation of, i. 
376. 
Natural religion, addition to its eviden- 
ces by geology, i. 14 ; links in evi- 
dences of supplied by geology, i. 586. 
Nautilus, fossil species pocuUar to cer- 
tain formations, i. 311 ; description 
of, i. 320 ; mcclianical contrivances 
In, i.314 ; Mr, Owen's memoir on, i. 
314 ; cbanibers, act as floaU, i. 317 ; 
siphuncle, its functions and mode of 
action, i. 318, 321,325; siphuncle, 
calcareous sheath of, i. 327 ; .siphun- 
cle, substance of, i. 328 ; use of air 
chambers, i. 321; contrivances to 
strengthen the shell, i. 323 — 325 ; 
number of transverse plates, i. 325 ; 
action of pericardial fliiid, i. 326 — 
329 ; like tliat of water in the water 
balloon, i. 327 ; its manner of float- 
ing, rising, sinking and moving at the 
bottom, 1 , 329 — 331 ; opinions of 
Hook and Parkinson concerning, i. 
331 ; the Author’s theory, i. 331. 
Nautilus sypho, intermediate character 
of, 1. 357—361. 
Nautilus zic zac, intermediate charac- 
ter of, i. 357— 361. 
Nebular hypothesis, consistent with 
geological phenomena, i. 40. 
Nelson, Lieut., on strata formed by the 
wind in the Bermudas, i. 127. 
Newcastle, plants preserved in coal 
mines at, i. 457. 
