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INDEX. 
Vcltzia, genus of conifers in new red 
sandstone, i. 485. 
Watcliet, nacre of ammonites pre- 
served in lias at, i. 376. 
Waters, not crrvttedon the third day of 
Mosaic cosmogony, i. 26; sources of 
mineral and theimal in faults, i. 569. 
W ater, its rank in geological dynamics, 
i. 36 ; supplied to springs by strati- 
fied rocks, i. 70 ; its agency in pre- 
serving organic remains, i. 127 ; cir- 
culation of in metallic veins, i. 546 ; 
perpetual circulation and functions 
of, r. 557, 558. 
Watt, his experiments on crystalliza- 
tion of bodies cooled slowly, i. 41. 
W ebster, Mr., section prepared by , ii. 2. 
Weinbohla, sienite, intersecdng and 
overlying chalk at, ii. 5. 
Weis, Professor, his account of bones of 
megatherium, i. 160; his belief that 
the megatherium had armour, i. 161. 
Wells, causesof rise of water in, i. 561. 
Werner, his theory of the formation of 
stratified rocks, i. 44 ; ofveins, i.551. 
Wheatstone, Prof., on crystals produced 
by electro-chemical action, i. 552. 
Whewell, Mr., his view of the nebular 
hypothesis, i. 40. 
Whitby, ammonites from, i. 339. 
Wieliezka, salt in tertiary formation, i. 
72. 
Winds, effect in causing undulations 
during the formation of stone in Port- 
land, i. 495; effect in forming strata 
in Bermudas and in Cornwall, i. 197 . 
Witham, Mr., his publications on fossil 
conifer®, i. 484, 485, 488. 
Worm holes, fossil, i. 260. 
Yairell, Mr., on the vision of birds, 
i. 173. 
Zamia pungens, mode of inflorescence, 
i. 494. 
Zamia spiralis, buds on trunk of, i. 500. 
Zamia horrida, section of trunk of,i. 497. 
Zeiten, M.,his description of fossil pens 
and ink bags in Wurtemberg, i. 308. 
Zoology, study of, indispensable to geo- 
logy, r. 111. 
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