INDEX. 
621 
BELGIUM. 
Belgium, Lower Miocene of, 241. 
Bellerophon costatus, Mountain Limestone, 
436. 
Belosepia sepioidea, Sheppey, 266. 
Belt, Mr. on subdivision of Lingula Flags, 
484. 
Bembridge beds, Yarmouth, 252. 
Berger, Br., on rocks altered by dikes, 
515. 
Berlin, Miocene strata near, 242. 
Bernese Alps, gneiss in the, 599. 
Berthier on isomorphism, 502. 
Bertrich-Baden, columnar basalt of, 512. 
Bey rich on term Oligocene for Lower 
Miocene, 244. 
Billings, Mr., on trilobites, 471. 
Binney, Mr., on Sigillarite in volcanic ash, 
546. 
-, on Stigmaria, the root of Sigillaria, 
426. 
Biotite, 499, 501. 
Bird in argile plastique, 276. 
Bischoff, Professor, on Nile and Rhine 
mud, 154. 
-, on conversion of coal into anthracite, 
403. 
--, on hydrothermal action, 586. 
Blackdown beds, 301. 
Blacklead of Borrowdale, 65. 
Bog-iron-ore, 52. 
Bohemia, Cambrian rocks of, 487. 
-, silver veins in, 616. 
Bolderberg, in Belgium, Upper Miocene 
of, 224. 
Bone-bed of fish remains, Armagh, 437. 
-of Upper Ludlow, 459. 
-of the Trias, 367. 
Boom, Lower Miocene of, 241. 
Bordeaux, Upper Miocene of, 214. 
Borrowdale, blacklead of, 65. 
Bosquet, M. on chalk fossils, 283. 
-, on Maestricht beds, 283. 
Botanical nomenclature, 303. 
Boucher de Perthes on Abbeville alluvium, 
152. 
Boulder-clay, whether formed by icebergs 
or land-ice, 166-173,178. 
Boulder-clay of Canada, 182. 
-fauna of, 176,189. 
Boulders and pebbles in chalk, 292. 
Bournemouth beds (Lower Bagshot), 262. 
Bovey Tracey, lignites and clays of, 246. 
Bowerbank, Mr., on fossil fruits of London 
Clay, 265. 
-, on fossil fruits of Sheppey, 265. 
Bowman, Mr., on uniting of distinct coal- 
seams, 401. 
Brachiopoda, preponderance of, in older 
rocks, 470. 
-, mode of recognizing shells of, 471. 
Bracklesham beds and Bagshot Sands, 
259. 
Bradford encrinites, 342. 
Breccias of Lower Permian, 391. 
Brick-earth or fluviatile loam, 153. 
Bridlington drift, 189. 
Bristol, dolomitic conglomei'ate of, 373. 
Bristow, Mr., on volcanic minerals, 500. 
Brixham cave near Torquay, 158. 
Brocchi on Italian tertiary strata, 141. 
-on subapenniiie strata, 208. 
Brockenhurst, corals and shells of, 257. 
CANADA. 
Brodie, Rev. P. B., on Lias insects, 363. 
-, Mr. W. R., on Purbeck mammalia, 
326. 
Brongniart, M. Adolphe, on botanical no¬ 
menclature, 303. 
-, on Lias plants, 364. 
-, on flora of the Bunter, 380. 
-, on flora of the coal, 420. 
-, on fruit of Lepidodendron, 424. 
-, M. Alex., on Tertiary series, 141. 
Bronteus flabellifer, Devonian, 453. 
Brora, oolitic coal formation of, 350. 
Brown, Mr. Richard, on Stigmaria, 426. 
-, on carboniferous rain-prints, 416. 
-, Robert, on Eocene proteaceous fruit, 
264. 
-, Rev. T., on marine shells in Scotch 
drift, 177. 
Brown-coal of Germany, 540. 
Bryce, Mr., on Scotch till, 176. 
Bryozoa of Mountain Limestone, 433. 
-and polyzoa, terms explained, 197. 
Buch, Von. See Von Buch. 
Bucklandj Dr., on Kirkdale cave, 158. 
-, on violent death of saurians, 362. 
-, on spines of flsh, 359. 
-, on Eocene oysters, 268. 
-, on pot-stones in chalk, 291. 
Buddie, Mr., on creeps in coal-mines, 78. 
Bulimus ellipticus, Bembridge, 253. 
- luhricus, Loess, 56. 
Bullock, Capt., R.N., on Atlantic mud, 
287. 
Bunbury. Sir C., on leaf-bed of Madeira, 
532. 
-, on ferns of the Maryland coal, 421. 
Bunter of Germany, 380. 
-or Lower Trias of England, 372. 
Buprestis f Elytron of, Stouesfield, 346. 
Burmeister on trilobites, 471. 
CAINOZOTC, term defined, 123. 
Caithness, fish beds of, 443. 
Calamite, root of, 425. 
Catamites Sucoivii, coal, and restored stem, 
424. 
Calamophyllia radiata, Bath Oolite, 342. 
Calcaire de la Beauce, age of the, 230. 
-grossier, fossils of the, 274. 
-siliceux of France, 273. 
Calcareous n^atter poured out by springs, 
604. 
-rocks described, 36. 
-nodules in Lias, 63. 
Calcarina rarisplna. Eocene, 275. 
Calceola sandalina, Ilevonian, 453. 
-schiefer of Germany, 453. 
California, auriferous gravel of, 617. 
-gold in petrified wood of age of allu¬ 
vium, 601. 
Calymene BlumenbacMi, Silurian, 466. 
Cambrian Group, classification of the, 481. 
Cambrian, Upper, 482. 
-, Lower, 484. 
-of Sweden and Norway, 489. 
-strata of Bohemia, 487. 
-of North America, 489. 
-volcanic rocks, 549. 
Campophyllum fiexuosum, 431. 
Canada, Cambrian of, 489. 
-—, Devonian of, 455. 
-, Trap-rocks of, 549. 
