INDEX. 
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Nevvliaven, nodules of iron-stone con- 
taining fishes and coprolites at, i. 278. 
Newton, his religious views resulting 
from philosopliy, i- 10, 591. 
Nichol, ftlr., observations on fossil pinua 
and araucaria, i, 485, 486, 488. 
Niiggerath, Professor, chronometer in 
fossil wood, observed by, i. 509. 
Norfolk, remains in crag formation of, 
i. 93 ; fishes in crag of, i. 286. 
N orland House, Artesian well at, i. 563. 
North Cliff, bones in freshwater forma- 
tion at, i. 93. 
Nummulites, their extent and number, 
i. 382, 383 ; functionsand structure, 
i. 384 ; influence on stratification, 1. 
383. 
Oberau, granite overlying cretaceous 
rocks at, ii. 5. 
Odier, M., his discovery of chitine, or 
elytrine in wings of insects, i, 411. 
Oeland, orthooeiutites in limestone of, 
i. 364 ; lituile found in the same, i. 
365. 
Oeningcn, plants of, 510, etscq. ; fossil 
fishes of, i. 266, 285 ; description of 
fossil plants at, by Professor Braun, i. 
511 — 514; plantsin brown coal for- 
mation at, i. 510 ; fossil salamandei’ 
of, i. 514. 
Ugyges, i. 391- 
Onchus, i. 289. 
Opossum, remains of in secondary and 
tertiary strata, i. 72 ; bones of, in 
oolite at Stonefield, i. 250. 
Organic remains, best summaries of, i. 
38 ; argument from absence of, i. 53; 
general history of, i, 106 ; afford evi- 
dence of design, i. 107 ; important 
inferences from, i. 109 ; study of, 
indispensable to geology, i. HI ; 
successive stages of deposition, i. 
113 ; best groundwork of geological 
divisions, i. 113 ; supply deficient 
links inthe existing animal kingdom, 
i. 114. 
Orodus, 1. 288. 
Ornithicnites, in new red sandstone of 
Connecticut, ii. 39. 
Ornithorhynchus, sternal apparatus like 
that of ichthyosaurus, i. 181, 185; 
Mr. R. Owen’s papers on, i. 181. 
Orthoceratitc, character and extent of, 
i.363. 
Osseous breccia, in fisures of limestone, 
i. 94. 
Osier, Mr., on proboscis of bucciuum, 
i. 298. 
Owen, Mr. on peculiarihes of marsu- 
pialia, i. 73 ; on comparative organi- 
zation of ornithorhynchus and rep- 
tiles, i. 181 ; on bones of land tor- 
toises, i. 235 ; on nautilus pompilius, 
i. 315,322,328,329,332. 
Pachydermata, existing genera of, in 
pliocene strata, i. 92. 
Pain, aggregate of diminished by the 
agency of carnivora, i. 129. 
Palaiotherium, remains of in Calcaire 
Crossier, i. 80 ; character and place 
of, i. 81. 
Palcy, his notice of spiral intestine of 
shark, i. 196 ; defect arising from his 
want of knowledge in geology, i. 
572 ; his argument for the unity of 
the deity, i. 583. 
Palms, in brown coal of Germany, i. 
509, 512 ; geological extent of, i. 613, 
514, 615 ; nmnbor and distrihulion 
of existing and fossil species,!. 515 ; 
fossil trunks of, i. 515, 516 ; leaves, 
localities and species of, i. 517 ; lo- 
calities of fossil fruits of, i. 518. 
Pampas, megalherium found in, ii. 20. 
Panimnem, character and extent of re- 
cent species, i. .503 ; fossil fruit of 
in inferior oolite, i. 504 ; functions 
of, 505. 
Pandanus, fruit of recent species, i. 
504, 505. 
Pandanocarpum, in tertiary formation, 
i. 507. 
Pangolin, armed with horny scales, i. 
162. 
Pander, his description of megatherium , 
i. 142. 
Paradoxus, i. 391. 
Paraguay, megatherium found in, i. 
161. 
Parish.Woodhine, esq. his discovery of 
megatherium, i. 143, 161. 
Parkinson, Mr., his theory respecting 
chambers of nautilus, i. 331 ; his 
observations on the lily encrinite, i. 
422 • his description of the fossil 
fruits of Sheppey, i. 518. 
Parry, Capt., on the long preservation 
of human foots'eps, i. 262. 
Patterson, Mr., on artificial crystals of 
galena, i. 551. _ , 
Peat bogs, local formahons of, u. 11. 
Pens, recent and fossil of loligo, 1.305, 
306; structure of fossil described, i. 
308,’ 30.9. 
Pentacrinile, character and habit of 
living species, i. 433; Briarenn, 
