INDEX.

A. Amies Field,near Broseley, coal-shaft section, 478. Ammonites, vertical range of, in the upper lias Aconcagua, notice of the eruption of, Jan. 18S9, and marlstone of Yorkshire limited, 216. 611. Annagh mine, near Castlemaine, account of, 64. Actinoceras, a genus of Orthocerata, described, Antigua, remarks on a specimen of fossil wood 705. from, 208, 209. . Simmsii, observations respecting a Antrim, on the geological structure of the north­ coral attached to the surface of, 710. eastern part of, 69. Aiken, Arthur, Esq., remarks by, on a piece of physical features and heights of the bog-wood containing small particles of metallic principal mountains, 69. copper, 214. description of the formations :— Aire, notice of the partially petrified wood and mica-slate, hornblende- nuts of the valley of the, 210. slate, granite, &c, 70. Akserai, structure of the country near, 587. — old red sandstone, 71. Alajahscheher, observations on the country near, porphyry, 73. 592. • carboniferous series, Allen Bank, remarks on a specimen of calcareous 74. fossil wood from, 208,209. —• new red sandstone, 75. Allesley, near Coventry, observations on the lias, 77. beds containing silicified stems of trees, 347. • green sand or mulatto, n • remarks on specimens of fossil woods 78. from, 214. chalk, 79. Allihies, notice of the copper mines of, 27. —— trap, 81. Alluvial accumulations, notices of, in the St. •' •• syenite veins which Lawrence, 90, 96,100. traverse mica-slate and chalk to the south of —— comparison of, with the Fair Head, 179. tertiary accumulations, 96. Ardleigh, section of London clay near, 369. , notices of, in Cutch, Argillaceous limestone and schist, description of, 304. in the eastern portion of the basaltic district . • in the Bermudas con­ of India, 539, 553, 555, 557. fined to marshes, 108. .i remarks on the Alum shale, or upper lias, subdivisions of, on relative age of, 568. the coast of Yorkshire, 215, 225, 237. Armoy, notices of formations near, 70, 71,78,80. —— distribution of fossils in, 219, 225, Ashburton limestone, account of, 630, 652 note* 238. Ashow, section of Warwick sandstone, south-east Alum works, account of near Mburr, 295, of, 344. VOL. T.—SECOND SERIES. 5 A 724 INDEX.

Asia Minor, description of, between Kodj-hissar Ballydehob mine, notice of, 26. and Caesarea of Cappadocia, 583, 590. Ballyhicky, notice of lead mine of, 66 note. Askeaton, notice of a metalliferous bed north of, Baltic Boulder Formation, description of, 244. 65. —. - inferences deduced from a section Aspal, section of well at, 37 7. of, on the right bank of the Elbe, 245. Asterias, notice of portions of, found in a well at Bangnapilly, remarks on the diamond mines, and Hampstead, 132. vicinity of, 541. Atlas and axis of the Ichthyosaurus, on the Barnstaple Bay, description of a raised beach in, structure of, 187. by Professor Sedgwick and Mr. Murchison, always 279. anchylosed, 187. observations on the beach by Audley mines, description of, 26. the Rev. D. Williams, 287. Austen, R. A. C. Esq., band of culm-

Batrachian animals, notice of the tracks of, 339. Bermudas, organics, account of, 111, 115. Bay of Chaleur, structure of part of the coast, chalk, or chalky ground of, derived 102. from decayed Zoophytes, 114. Bayfield, Capt. R.N., notes on the geology of •• reefs, sketches of, 116. the north coast of the St. Lawrence, 89. diluvial agency, external evidences of, notice of an Ormoceras 117. found by, 706. internal evidences of, Beauport near Quebec, notice of beds containing 118. recent marine shells at, 96. description of the pinnacles in the, —.. . *—p- water of the St. Law­ 120. rence perfectly fresh thirty miles below Beau- water, depth of wells, 120. port, 96 note. building materials, 121. Beck, Dr., observations of, respecting the Faxoe concluding remarks, 121. fossils, 250 and note. Berry Head, description of a section from, to Beech, account of a piece of, partly petrified by Start Point, 659. carbonate of lime, 207, 209. limestone, belongs to the highest further notice of, 213. strata of the older formations on the south­ observations on, by Mr. R. Brown, 213. east of Dartmoor, 650. Belfast Lough, remarks on the petrified calcareous • . notices of, 652. nuts of, 210. Bideford, account of the culm bands near, 680. Bell, Dr. Charles, geological notes by, on part of —. of the plants Mazunderan, 577. associated with, 681. Belstead, section of well at, 380. Bideford Bay, description of a raised beach in, Bentley Hall, section of well at, 381. 279, 287. Berkswell, description of a variety of red sand­ Bircham Hill, old red forced up through the stone at, 348. limestone at, 197. Bermuda, or Main Island, description of, 107. Birds, on fossil bones of, discovered in the strata Bermudas, on the geology of the, 103. of Tilgate Forest, 175. • >•• • form of the group and number of Bisehoff, Professor, remarks on his theory of islets, 103. volcanos, 608 note, 609 note. highest point above the level of the Bishop's Hill, section at, 382. sea, 104. Blakenham magna, section of well at, 379. . •• composed of calcareous rocks, 104. parva, section of well at, 379. strata generally saddle-shaped, 104. Blackpots, notice of superficial deposits contain­ bottom of the basin consists of cal­ ing fossils from the lias, and recent shells careous sand and chalky ground, 104. found at, 146. • soundings outside the reef not so Black-rock, Cork, list of fossils found in the, rapid as in the Pacific cowl reefe, 105. 21. geological details of the principal Blankenese Point, notice of the cliffs from, to islands, 106 et seq. Schulau, 244. account of caverns, 108, 112, 118. Blue Wick, section of the lower carboniferous ———— alluvial deposits, confined to marshes, series at, 237. 108. — inferior oolite, 237. «— encroachments of land on sea, 109; Boase, Dr., reference to his observations on 1- sea on land, 109. joints in the-granite of Cornwall, 68&. . • sand, 109. Bognor Rocks, list of fossifc found m, 262. 5 2 726 INDEX.

Bolt Head, description of a section from the Bury, sections of wells near, 376. Plymouth limestone to, 656. Bonmahon river, notice of mineral veins near C. the, 24. Boscastle, description of the culm measures near, Caesarea of Cappadocia, description of the 671 and note. country between, and Kodj-hissar, 590. Bostock, Dr., notice of the analysis of a mineral description of the water from the Island of St. Paul, 261. country near, 595. Boulder formation of Mpen, described, 252. Cahir-conree mountains, notices of, 8, 36. Boussingault, M., remarks on his observations Calcareous concretions, notice of, in the sand of respecting earthquakes, 607 note, 623, 626 the Bermudas, 110. note. Calcareous grit, description of some remarkable Bovisand Bay, description of the strata near, dikes of, at Ethie, 599. 657. Calcareous shale and grit, description of, in Brachyurus rugosus (Schlotheim) not uncommon Sligo, 156. in the Faxoe limestone, 251. section of, at Ross, Bradfield, section of well at, 375. 156. Bramford, sections at, 380. at Moyne, Branchiae, account of, belonging to a fossil ma- 157. crourous decapod, 173. Calcareous slates of Cornwall, notices of, 664. Breakback Hill, section of the new red system North Devon, range of, 641, of, 341. ——— Padstow, remarks on pecu­ Bridport, description of fossil Ophiurae found liarities in the structure of, 655. near, 173. Caldpleugh, Mr., notices of his accounts of earth­ Broad-ledge, Lyme Regis, notice of fossils found quakes in South America, 602, 605, 611 note. on, 173. Canon Leigh, account of alimestone quarry at, 675. Broderip, W. J. Esq., description of some fossil Cape Gaspe, structure of the country near, 102. Crustacea and Radiata by, 171. Cape Whittle, Gulf of St. Lawrence, structure of Bromsgrove, descriptions of the strata near, the coast near, 99. 341, 342. Caple St. Mary, section of well at, 381. Brown, R. Esq., observations of, on partially Cappagh mines, account of, 26. petrified wood from a Roman aqueduct, 213. Carbonate of soda, remarks on the formation of, —. remark of, respecting the 56$. medullary rays remaining unchanged, while Carboniferous limestone, description of, in Clare, the surrounding longitudinal fibres are petri­ 55. fied, 214. — .. . • in Coal- Brown Clee Hill, notice respecting, 125. brook Dale, 424. Bryce, James, Jun. Esq., on the geological — i in the structure of the north-eastern part of the counties of Cork, Limerick and Kerry, 38 et county of Antrim, 69. seq. Buckland, Rev. W. DD., notice of his descrip­ ______jn tne tion of the Tintagel slate, 668. Forest of Dean, 199. Building materials, notice of, in the Bermudas, divided 121. into two portions by a bed of iron ore, 199. Bunter sandstein, description of, in Gloucester­ .'-.. in Mayo shire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire, 339. and Sligo, 154. INDEX. 727

Carboniferous limestone, description of in North Cayton Bay, section of Great Oolite in, 233, 237. Munster, 55. remarks on the upper beds, 234. notice of, in the north­ Cervical vertebrae, comparison of, in the Plesio- east of Antrim, 74. saurus macroaephalus and P. Hawkinsii, 523. -, ,. , . respecting, in the Chalk, blocks or tumblers of, numerous in the United States, 58 note. valley of the Carey, 80. oolitic variety, account changes produced in, by the syenite veins of, between Moyne and Rathrea, 155. of Torr Eskert, 182 note, 183. •—• organic remains of, in reniform masses of syenite included in counties Cork, Limerick and Kerry, 42. the, at Torr Eskert, 184. outlier of, at Penallt description of, in Antrim, 79. Common, noticed, 200. in Moen, 252. account of mines in, notice of, near Felpham, 262. county of Clare, 64, 65 note. in Suffolk, 360. of trap dyke surface of, under the plastic clay in Kates- in, (wood-cut) 167. grove pits, penetrated by small tubular cavi­ Carboniferous series, account of in North Mun­ ties, 127. ster, 55. upper part of, at Diss, contains no flints, metalliferous relations of, 137, 138. in Clare and extending into Galway, 60. total thickness of, in a well sunk at Diss, • United States, geogra­ 137. phical distribution of Trilobites in the, 61 note. • a white deposit in the Bermudas, com­ Carburetted hydrogen gas, notice of, in Coal- pared to, 114. brook Dale, 439. • derived from decayed Carrick-na-Shouock, notice of the pass of, in the zoophytes, 114. Ox Mountains, 150. Change of level, account of, in the St. Lawrence, Carrig O'Gunnel, account of the trap of the hills 93. of, 41. - not to be explained Carrow-na-Skea, notice of the pass of, in the Ox by depressions of the waters of the gulf and Mountains, 150. river, 97. Caryophyllia Faxoensis, figure of, 249. Chedburgh, section of well at, 375. Castle Espie, County of Down, description of an Chert, description of the, containing fresh-water Orthoceras from, 704. fossil shells in the Sichel hills, 550. Castle hill, Gamrie, notice of beds containing near Chicknee, 558. fossils from the lias at, 144, 146. Chevington, section of well at, 375. recent shells in Chili, account of phenomena which accompanied the, 146. the earthquake in, Feb. 1835, 601. Castle Island, Bermudas, notice of, 107. notice of the earthquake in, Nov. 1822, Castle rock, notice of the coast section near, 645. 263. Caverns, description of, in the Bermudas, 108,118. Chiloe, description of the effects of the earthquake Cautley, Capt. Proby, on the structure of the in, during 1835, 602. Seyalik hills, and the organic remains found in 1887, 604. them, 267. Chudleigh, remarks on the confused junctions Cautley, Capt. and Falconer, H., M.D., on the near, 670, note. remains of a fossil monkey from the tertiary Cidaris Bechei, description of, 174. strata of the Sevalik hills, 499. Clare, account of mines in the county of, 60. 728 INDEX.

Clare, account of mines in old red sandstone, 60. Coalbrook Dale, description of new red sand­

. , —— :— carboniferous lime­ stone of, 447. stone 64, 65 note. , . rocks of igne­ height of hills in the county of, 6. ous origin, 449. notice of the diluvial clay at, 375. . diluvium or Clarke, Rev. W. B. on the geological structure drift of, 460. and phaenomena of Suffolk and its physical re­ . remarks on the nature and ef­ lations with Norfolk and Essex, 359. fects of the disturbances of, 452, 472. Claydon, depth of chalk pit at, 380. . „_ . on the alternations of Clay-slate, south of Ireland, nojtices of, 7, 12. marine, fluviatile and fresh- water remains in the Cliffs, destruction of, on the coast of Suffolk, coal measures of, 464. 366. conclusions de­ Cloughton Wyke and White Nab, section of great duced from, 468. oolite at, 231, 237. . on the changes in the . of the lower coal series at, 237. lithological characters and organic remains in Coal, account of, in the Brown Clee Hill, 125. the horizontal range of the coal measures, 468. Cutch, 293. nature of the remarks on the question whether its vege­ agents which have modified the surface of the table remains grew where found, or have been coal-field, 473. drifted, 463. conclusions drawn from the said to be found at Perce, 102. phaenomena presented by the coal-field of, 463. Coal-shafts, sections of, in the Coalbrook-dale- ~ systematic list of fossils from, field, 475 et seq. 488. Coalbrook Dale, Mr. Prestwich on the geology Coal-field, notes to accompany a Geological Map of, 413. of the Forest of Dean, 195. • • • . • extent and physical features of Coal measures, account of, in the north-east of the district, 415. Antrim, 74. — description of the Silurian rocks •' • • - <— in Clare, 56. of, 418. • in Coalbrook Dale, old red sand­ 428. stone of, 424. number of strata —. carboniferous and depth in different parts of the field, 429. limestone of, 424. •" ' • ••• — list of coal seams • - —• - coal measures and their aggregate thickness, 435. of, 428. See also coal measures. „ thickness of strata —— —- .. i i their pro­ between penneystone and clod coal, 431. bable geological position, 471. • • thickness of the probable penneystone measure, 431. origin of debris composing the, 469. great variations in —J .. • probable thickness, and composition of the strata, 431. extension of, beneath the new red sandstone, — . . notice of the bed 472. of fresh-water limestone, 434. 1 .• - probable •••• • coal seams, cha­ origin of the ironstone contained in the, 470. racters of, 435. 1 • — • list of — —,. proxi­ minerals found in, 487. mate analysis of, 436 note. INDEX. 729

Coal measures, ironstone measures, account of, 1835 probably marked one step in the eleva­ 436. tion of a mountain chain, 628. num­ Concepcion, effects of earthquakes on the build­ ber of beds and thickness, 437. ings of, with respect to the direction of the rela­ streets, 603, 617. tive produce of each bed, 437. Conybeare, Rev. J. J., notice of his subdivisions speci­ of the Cornish and Devon slates, 634 note. fic gravity of each bed, 438. of his description organic remains of, in Coalbrook of the Tintagel slate, 668. Dale, 440. Conglomerates, transition, notices of, in the south • list of minerals in the, of Coal- of Ireland, 7, 13, 14. brook Dale, 487. Continents, on the identity of the force which ele­ , description of, in the Forest of vates, .with that which causes volcanic outbursts, Dean, 200. 606. ; -~ previous • remarks on the elevation of, 601 el seq. accounts of, 195, 202. Cooper's Island, Bermudas, notice of, 107. ——• • - divisible Copdock, sections at, 380. into two series, 200. Copiapo, notice of the earthquake at, Nov. 1822, contor­ 612. tions in, 201. Copper, remarks on metallic particles of, in bog description of, in county Kerry, 45. wood, 214. ••• • --•» contains few Coralline limestone, account of, at Stevensklint, beds of coal, 45. 246...... -• consists chiefly Faxoe, 248. of sandstone and shale, 49. Corals, list of, in the Devonshire limestone, —• of Munster poor in iron ore, 66. 697. notices respecting, in the United Corcovado, phenomena accompaning the out­ States, 59 et seq. note. bursts of, in 18S5, 604. Coal, notices of thin laminae of, in South Devon, Cordillera of the Andes, remarks on the structure 651 note. of, with reference to earthquakes, 623. in Cornwall, 667. •— phenomena exhibited by Coast, description of the north, of Mayo and Sligo, the volcanos of the, during and after the earth­ 151. quake, Feb. 1825,603. Cockfield, section of well at, 375. volcanos of, may be Cole, Viscount, description of his specimen of grouped into systems, 614. Plesiosaurus macrocephalus, 515. . remarks on the gradual Coleia, a new genus of crustaceans described, elevation of the, 626. 172. —— . theoretical arguments re­ Colloony, description of the pass of, in the Ox specting the formation of the, 626. mountains, 150. . composed of a succession Combe Martin, observations on the coast sections of highly-tilted anticlinal ridges, 627. near, 642, 645, 646. rocks forming the axes of of the valley of, 646. the ridges, visible only in the valleys, 627. Compass, effects of the earthquake of Feb. 1835 . probable cause of at Chiloe, on the, 602. the phenomena, 627. Concepcion, earthquake of, on the 20th of Feb. the axes of plutonic rock 750 INDEX.

less exposed, with some exceptions, in the prin­ Crownall Bay, description of the strata near, 657 cipal, than the suhordinate lines, 628 note. and note. Cordillera of the Andes, the compact unstratified Croyde Bay, notice of the slate rocks on the north rock composing the central ridges, conceived side of, 648. to have been formed by innumerable small Croydon Hill, on the structure of, 639, 640. operations, 629. , formations composing, same as those .. - of central Chili, composed of parallel of North hill, 642. ridges formed successively, 623. coarse red gray wacke of, the equi­ Cork county, description of the metalliferous re­ valent of the red beds on the coast between lations in, 25. Combe Martin and the Valley ofthe rocks, 641. ,i —— transition series Crustacea, description of some fossil, found at in, 6. Lyme Regis, 171. .. • — carboniferous se­ Crystalline slates south of Hope cove, described, ries in, 34. 658. notice of rolled debris in, 67, Culmiferous series of Devonshire described, 669. . . . • harbour, description of the limestone of, 19. • •• •—• on the physical structure of • .. • . list of its fossils, the district occupied by, 636. 21. .„ relations of, to the other limestone, list of fossils found in, 21. formations, 669. • - other localities in lower culm-measures de­ which the species occur, 21, 22 note. scribed, 670. Cornwall, slate rocks of, described, 664. upper culm-measures de­ ——— equivalent of the slate rocks scribed, 677. of South Devon, 668, 689. plants of, remarks respecting comparison of slates of the north and by Prof. Lindley, 681. south coasts, 668. • observations on the fossils • fossiliferous slates of, assigned to the found in, 693. old red system, 691. geological position of the Coseguina, notice ofthe eruptionof, Jan. 1835,611. lower division not perfectly defined, 684, 694. Coton end, section at, 344. = notice of copper and lead Coventry, notices respecting the red sandstone veins in, 670 note. near, 347. Cuming, H. Esq., on the earthquake in Chili, Nov. Courrejolles, opinion of, with respect to earth­ 1822, 263. quakes, quoted, 613 note, 616 note. Cupriferous peat bog, description of, east of Court McMartin, a hill near Cushendall, notice Glendore harbour, 27. of its structure, 73. Curahene glen, description of, 87. Crag, account of, in Suffolk, 362. Cushendall, account of formations near, 72,73,75. Creeting, section of well at, 378. caves, building stones procured from « All Saints, section at, 378. new red at, 75. St. Mary, section at, 878. Cushendun, description of the formations near, Crioceratites, remarks on, 409. 71, 72. Cross-slieve mountain, notices of the structure of, Cutch, memoir to illustrate a geological map of, 71, 72, 75. 289. Crovie, notice of the beds containing ichthyolites , geographical position and physical aspect, at, 141. 289. Crow Island, notice of a mine in, 54. • -• • formations, 290. INDEX. 731

Cutch, the Grand Runn described, SI8. formations below the culm measures stated to . . .. organic remains, systematic lists from, agree with those of Prof. Sedgwick and Mr. 327, 718. Murchison, 688, and note. notice of fossils collected by Capt. Smee De la Beche, H. T., Esq., notice of fossils found and Col. Pottinger, in, 715. by, at New Quay, 667. culm plants D. sent to the Geological Society by, 680. — map accompanying Dartmoor granite, description of its structure, the memoir on Devonshire by Prof. Sedgwick &c, 685. and Mr. Murchison, taken chiefly from the effects of, on the formations Index Map by, 692. in contact with it, 649, 650, 672, 687. Deer, notice of remains of, found in gravel near • a protruded rock of posterior Cropthorne, 261, date to the lower culm measures, 673. Denbigh Lodge, description of a fault between > description of a section from the east Lydney Park and, 204. side of, to Torbay, 650. Denmark, observations on Dr. Forchhammer's to the Ply­ account of the cretaceous and tertiary strata mouth limestone, 653. of, 243. Darwin, C, Esq., on the boring of limestone by Denodur Hill, in Cutch, description of, 315. Annelides, 249 note. Devonshire, Prof. Sedgwick and Mr. Murchison • observations on the Faxoe on the physical structure, &c. of, 633, 688. coral limestone, 249 note. description of the five geographical on the white calcareous excre­ regions of, 634; first region, 635, second, ment of Spari, &c, 252 note. 635, third, 635, fourth, 637, fifth, 637. • on the formation of mould, 505. • range and extent . on the connexion of certain vol­ of the successive deposits between the north canic phaenomena in South America, and on coast of, and the culmiferous series, 638; lowest the formation of mountain chains and volcanos, deposit, 641, second in ascending order, 641, as the effect of the power which elevates con­ third, 641, fourth, 642, fifth, 643. tinents, 601. . , of mineral structure, —_ table by, of volcanic phae­ &c. of the five groups ; first, 644, second, 645, nomena in South America, 610. third, 646, fourth, 647, fifth, 647. Daubeny, Dr., analysis of a saline spring near Ox­ • > of the succession of de­ ford, 263. posits between Dartmoor and the south coast Dawley Pit, section of, 482. of, 649. Dedham, sections of wells at, 372. Dartmoor to Berry Deemdoortee, notice of the iron ore of, 546. Head, 650. account of the , to the mode of manufacturing steel from, 547. Plymouth limestone, 653. De la Beche, H. T., Esq., remark on his first from the Ply­ plan of colouring of the ordnance sheets of mouth limestone to, Bolt Head, 656. Devon and .Cornwall, 634 note. from Berry Head , . note on his placing to Start Point, 659. the red sandstone of the Foreland under the subdivision of the strata composing Linton system, 642 note, 644 note. the south of, 661; first, slate rocks bordering ~ his arrangement of on Dartmoor, 661 ; second, calcareous slates VOL. V. SECOND SERIES. 5 732 INDEX.

enclosing in the lower part the Ashburton Disturbance, account of lines of, in the Coal- bands, in the upper the Plymouth and Torbay brook Dale coal-field, 452. limestones, 662 ; third, an arenaceous group, Dockar, Mr. of Findon, section of the ichthyolite 662 ; fourth, glossy slates, 662 ; fifth, crystal­ beds near the farm of, 142. line slates, 662. Dodman Point to the St. Austell granite, section Devonshire, conclusions drawn from the details from, 666. respecting the formations in the north and south Dolgellau, remarks on fragments of wood from of, 662. a bog near, containing particles of metallic comparison of the formations of copper, 214. North and South Devon, 663, 689. Doneen, notices of the metalliferous deposits of, _ . culmiferous series of, described, 669. 25. —— description of Donnington Wood, diagram of faults near, 456. the lower measures, 670. Dorsal vertebrae, comparison of, in the Plesio- of the saurus macrocephalus and P. Hawkinsii, 525. upper measures, 677. Douglas, Mr., description by, of the effects of the granite of Dartmoor described, 685. earthquake in Chiloe, Feb. 1825, 602. two distinct regions of elevation Dromagh, notices of the coal measures of, 51 etseq. in, 687. Dronningestolen, description of the cliff called, in rocks of, belong to three periods of the island of Moen, 255. formation, 687. woodcut of the cliff, 256. • , not to be considered older Drummond Island, Lake Huron, remarks on Or- than the Silurian system, 689. thocerata from, 706, 708, 709. . objections to assigning the lower Dunstan Point to Withy Hedge, notice of the groups of, to the old red system, answered, 699. section from, 657. note respecting the omission in the Dykes, description of parallel trap, in Mayo and printed memoir of their first classification of Sligo, 162 et seq. the older rocks of, 634 note* E. Devonian System, reasons for altering the term, old red system, to the, 701. Earthquake, notices of, in Chile, Nov. 1822, 263. Diamond breccia of Bangnapilly, description of respecting, in Cutch, 319. the, 542. on the north coast of the Diamond mines, remarks on the, of Bangnapilly, St. Lawrence, 97, 98 note. 541. in South America, details respect­ Diluvial action, notices of, in the south of Ireland, ing phamomena attending the, 601. 67. notices of distant di­ Diluvium, notice of, in Suffolk, 865. stricts contemporaneously affected by, 602, of Coalbrook Dale, remarks on, 460. 606 and note. • • separable into two —• Juan Fernandez, divisions, 460. Concepcion, and Chili in 1835, 602, 618. : notice of marine Talcahuano, Chi­ shells discovered in, 462. loe andLemus, 1837, 604. Dingle Bay, list of heights to the north and south • Copiapo andCo- of, 4. quimbo in 1822, 612. Diss, observations on the strata penetrated in unequal action of, at sinking a well at, 137. different points contemporaneously affected, section of the strata, 138. 602, 606 and note. INDEX. 733

Earthquakes in South America, unequal action Easington Heights, description of the upper lias of, at points contemporaneously affected, Juan and marlstone of, 215. Fernandez and main coast, 1835, 602, 618. section of the strata at, 221. Chiloe, Cal- list of fossils from, 219. buco, and Mellipulli, 605, 616, 618. East Bergholt, sections of wells at, 371. Lima, Callao, Echinostachys oblongus, notice of the occurrence and Guancavelica, 606 note. of, at Hadley, 340. • remarks of the Edwards Piece, Hadley, coal-pit section at, 480. natives and Humboldt respecting the unequal Egerton, Sir P. Grey, Bart., on certain peculiari­ action of, 606. ties in the cervical vertebras of the Ichthyosau­ cause of, ad­ rus, hitherto unnoticed, 187. vanced by Mr. Darwin, 615. Elbe, description of the Baltic boulder forma­ nature of, 615. tion on the right bank of, below Hamburgh, generally affect 244. elongated areas, 617, 621. • inferences deduced from, 245. sometimes ac­ Elbow Bay, Bermudas, notice of concretions in companied by elevations of land, 618. the sand of, 110. • ^—• conclusions Elevation of continents, effects of the same force drawn from, 619. which causes volcanic outbursts, 606. 1 —— direction of the Elevation of land, South America, 1751, 602. shocks at Concepcionl751 and 1835, 602, 620. , 1835, 607. , in does not al­ Chiloe in 1835, 602. ways accompany earthquakes, 618. at island of Lemus, Nov. 1837, the Caraccas, 617. 605. instances of pe­ Elevation of mountain-chains, effected slowly, riodical returns of, 612. 625. " 1 remarks on a proofs deduced from the supposed determined relation of, with respect structure of the Cordillera, 625. to time, 612. Elevations, indications of increased intensity of . — ——- though appa­ action, in proceeding from Cornwall north­ rently sudden are often parts of a prolonged wards, 285. action, 613 and note. Elmsett, section at, 380. 1 difference be­ Elmswell, sections of wells at, 376. tween, and those of Calabria and Italy, 622. Encroachment of sea on land, in the Bermudas, pro­ notices of, 109. bable cause of the difference, 622. land on sea, 109. — operation of, sand, 109. compared to the yielding of ice beneath a mo­ Enys, Mr., notice of his observations on joints in ving weight, 607, 620. the granite of Cornwall, 685. probable difference between those Erme Mouth, notice of beds near, 658. due to cavities, or to the ejection of igneous Erratic blocks, notice of, in Suffolk, 366. matter, 622. Erris, county of Mayo, notices respecting the and volcanos, apparent connexion structure of, 151, 158, 160. of in South America, 602. See volcanos and of parallel trap earthquakes. dykes in, 163 et seq. 5 2 734 INDEX.

Erris mountains, notices of the structure of, 161. Forchhammer, Dr., remarks on his account of the Ethie, description of some remarkable dikes of cretaceous and tertiary strata of Denmark, 243. calcareous grit, at, 599. in the island of Moen, 253. F. on his account of the shattered flints of Moen, 257. Fair-Head, notices respecting the structure of, 71, Forest of Dean coal-field, notes to accompany a 74, 75,79,81. geological map of the, 195. description of the Syenite veins which — description of the old red sand­ traverse mica slate and chalk to the south of, stone of, 196. 179. carboniferous • •• section from, to Cushleake mountain, limestone of, 199. 179. — coal measures Falconer, H., M.D. and Cautley, Capt., on the of, 200. remains of a fossil monkey from the tertiary iron ore of, 203. strata of the Sevalik hills, 499. fault between False stripe, notice of, in slate rocks near Avon Lydney Park and Denbigh Lodge, 204. Mouth, and on the north coast of Cornwall,655. — reference to previous Faraday, Prof., remarks on his experiment on accounts of, 195, 202. perfectly dry limestone, 560. Foreland, red sandstone of, not inferior to the Farous-glen, structure of, described, 79. Linton system, 642, 644 note. Faults, description of, in the Brown Clee Hill, Fossils, distribution of, on the Yorkshire coast, 126. from the lower lias to the Bath oolite, 223. in the Coalbrook Dale systematic list of, 238. field, 452. account of, in Coalbrook Dale, 440. between Lydney Park and '- notice of, in the Baltic boulder formation Denbigh Lodge, 204. at Schulau, 244. near Gamrie, 145. in the carboniferous limestone near Kenilworth, 343 note. of Coalbrook Dale, 427. Faxoe, account of the coral limestone of, 248. in North Devon, 645 etseq. 695. , — most the Linton slates, abundant fossils described, 248 and note. 645; the red arenaceous greywacke, 646; . , distin­ the Ilfracombe slates, 647, 696; the Barnstaple guishing characters of, 249. slates, 643,648, 694; at Sloly, 683; Marwood, • age of, relatively to the 648, 695. white chalk with flints, 251. in South Devon, 696 et seq. Faxoe to Stevensklint, section (woodcut) of the the Plymouth strata from, 251. slates and limestones, 656; in Crownall Bay, Felpham, notice of the occurrence of chalk near, 657 note; in the Tintagel slate, 668; in the 262. Petherwin group, 694. Findon, section of the beds containing ichthyolites the characteristic of the Faxoe near, 142. limestone, 248. Fishery, notice of cleavage near, 658. in the limestones of the Flints, notice of shattered, in Moen, 257. Mingin islands, 93. Floods, notices of the effects of, in Cutch, 306. — in the limestone in the south Flowton, depth of diluvial clay at, 380. coast of the St. Lawrence, 102. INDEX. 735

Fossils, notice of, in the Sevalik hills, 267, 272, Fossil plants, list of, found in the lower oolite car­ 274. boniferous series on the Yorkshire coast, — . in the Wenlock limestone of 230. Coalbrook Dale, 419. • : in the strata of Gristhorpe in the Warwick sandstone, Bay, 235. 343. —»—• — from the upper culm measures . from Bognor, in the possession of Devonshire, 681 ; from the South Munster of the Geological Society, 262. coal field, 54. found in the Cork limestone, —. account of, from Sloly, 683. 21. notice of, near Kodj-hissar, 589. in the carboniferous limestone Fossil saurians, description of three, from the of South Munster, 42. magnesian conglomerate, near Bristol, 349. contained in the transition Fossil woods, some remarks on, by Mr. Stokes, series of the south of Ireland, 10,15. 207. recent species in the raised '— remarks on partially petrified, 207. beach in Bideford Bay, 280. • •• from a Roman aqueduct, systematic list of, from Coalbrook Dale, 207. 488. -. observa­ _ Cutch, 327, 718. tions on, by Mr. R. Brown, 213. . in Devonshire, 702. from Aire, 210. foundina well at Hamp- Allen Bank, 208, stead, 134. 209. the oolites of Allesley, 214. the Yorkshire coast, 238. Bonn, 211. Fossil birds' bones, on the discovery of, in the •—— Linnel Braes, 209. strata of Tilgate Forest, 175. Lough Neagh, 211. —• . assigned by Baron Cuvier to observations on different conditions a species of Wader or Ardea, 176. of, in different specimens, 211. opinion confirmed Fossiliferous slates of South Devon, lower divi­ by Mr. Owen, 176. sion of, passes into Cornwall, 664. reason why they are of rare Four Stonehams, section of wells at, 377. occurrence, 175. Fowey, notice of fossils obtained near, 664, 697. Fossil fresh-water shells, description of, found in the strata near, 665. theSichel hills, 548, 550. Fox, W. R., Esq., on mineral veins, 497. , near notice of observations by, on Chicknee, 557. joints in Cornish granite, 685. infer­ Framlingham, sections of wells near, 377. ences respecting, 569, 574. Franklin, Major, remarks on the age assigned by, notices of, in other parts to the argillaceous limestone, and diamond of India, 570. sandstone of India, 568. Fossil monkey, notice of the remains of a, from Fresh-water fossil shells, description of, found in the Sevalik hills, 499. the Sichel hills, 548, 550. comparison of its Astragalus _ near with that of the Semnopithecus Entellus, 501. Chicknee, 574. Fossil plants, account of, in the new red sandstone •.• - •• inferences respecting, at Hadley, 840. 569, 574. 736 INDEX.

Fresh-water fossil shells, notices of, in other parts Goniatites, a species of, found in the coal shale of India, 570. of Ardnagragh, 54. G. notices of, in Devonshire, 673, 693. Gallic acid, notice on the power of, to reduce Goodland cliff, account of the syenite veins which metallic oxides, 214. traverse mica slate and chalk at, 179. Galmpton Creek, notices of the strata near, 659. sections (woodcuts) of the cliff, ISO. Gamrie, on the structure of the neighbourhood Grabbist Hill, on the structure of, 639. of, 139. Grand Runn, description of, 318. • schistose rocks account of the natural walls on the, of, 140. 321. old red sand­ Granite of Dartmoor, description of its structure, stone of, 141. &c. 685. - -— trap rocks of, not penetrated by the beds 144. and masses of trap associated with the strati­ ••• remarks respecting the age of the Ich- fied rocks, 686. thyolite beds, 145. the surrounding strata not account of the faults near, 145. all mantle-shaped, 686. Ganges, structure of the hills between the Jumna — —— veins from, penetrate altered and the, 269. beds near Oakhampton, 686. account of a deposit super­ of shingle and sandstone found in the, 269. imposed rocks all around Dartmoor, 686. of lignite, 270. junction of, with limestone, east of Pil­ • • • of marl with or­ lage Bay, 99. ganic remains, 271. notice of in Mayo and Sligo, 161. —— list of the or­ nearKodj-hissar, 589,590,591. ganic remains, 272. in the north-east of Antrim, 71. Gaul tees range, highest point of, 6. — on the north coast of St. Law­ Geoffroy St. Hilaire, remarks on his analysis of rence, 89 et seq., 98. a vertebra, 517. — platform between the Kistnah and Goda­ Geological Society, list of fossils from Bognor, in very, described, 544. possession of the, 262. Grant, Capt., memoir by, to illustrate a geological Gerrans Bay, notices of the strata near, 664. map of Cutch, 289. Gislingham, section of well at, 377. Great east fault, Coalbrook Dale, description of, Glandore Harbour, description of the cupriferous 457. peat bog, east of, 27. Green sand, description of, in Antrim, 78. GlenarifF river, structure of formations near Greenstone, description of, in the south of Ire­ mouth of, 75, 79. land, 13. glen, structure of formations in, 76, 78. Gres bigarre, description of, in Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, description of the upper forma­ Worcestershire and Warwickshire, 339. tions of the new red sandstone system in, 331. Greywacke, description of, in the south of Ire­ Gneiss, description of, in Mayo and Sligo, 151, land, 7, 8, 12. 159. list of fossils found in, 10. Goat Island, Bermudas, notice of, 107. . • notices of, in Kerry, 7. Godavery, remarks on the valley of the, 539. metalliferous relations of, in south Gold washings, notice of, in the Sevalik hills west of Ireland, 24. of the Jumna, 277. Griffith, Richard, Esq., on the syenite veins which INDEX. 737

traverse mica slate and chalk, south of Fair mena presented by, and neighbouring district, Head, in the county of Antrim, 179. 586. Griffith, Richard, Esq., remarks by, on supposed Havergate Island, well-section in, 383. beds of greenstone and granite, 185. Hazel nuts, remarks on the petrified, of Belfast .— notice of his survey of the Lough, 210. bogs of Connaught, 149, 156. • • of the vale — •• of his map of Ire­ of Aire, 210. land, and a memoir on part of the south of Heights, list of, above the level of the sea in the that kingdom, 700 note. south of Ireland, 4. Grinshill, notice of the sandstone of, 346 note. Helix, shells of a species not known living, found Gristhorpe Bay, account of fossil plants found in in great quantities in caverns, in the Bermudas, the strata of, 235. 112, 113. • - . • • depression in the Helmingham Hall, section of a well at, 377. middle of, 234. Heman's-pit field, near Broxley, section of, 481. Guy's Cliff, section in the grounds at, 344. Hemley, section of well at, 383. Hennah, Rev. R., notices of fossils found by, H. 657, 692. Hadji Bektash, notice respecting the salt mines Higham, section of wells at, 373. of, 591. High shingle beaches, account of raised, in Corn - Hadleigh, sections near, 374. wall, 284. Halstead, section of a well at, 369. Hills, terminations of chains of, often exhibit the Hamburgh, description of the Baltic boulder greatest possible confusion, 641. formation below the city of, 244. Hill's Lane-pits, Madeley, diagrams of faults in, inferences deduced from, 453, 454. 245. sections of, 485. Hamilton, C. W., Esq., notice of his paper on Hingan-ghat, notice of fossil plants found at, 558. part of the south of Ireland, 700 note. • — bone, 558, note. Hamilton, W. J., Esq., on part of Asia Minor, Hintelsham, section at, 380. between the salt lake of Kodj-hissar and Hippopotamus, notice of remains of, found in Caesarea of Cappadocia, 583, 590. gravel near Cropthorne, 261. Hampstead Heath, observations on a well dug Hoffmann, Herr, observations on his grouping of on the south side of, 131. the carboniferous series, 34 note. Harding, Major, five calcareous courses traced Hoierup, woodcut of the cliff near the church by, in the headland separating Combe Martin of, 247. from Ilfracombe, 646. —i • between, and the . notice of his discovery of vege­ Light House, 248. table remains in Sloly quarry, 648, 682. Holcombe Rogus, account of the limestoneof, 674. Posidonia found by, in the Hol- Holstein, notice of the Boulder formation in the combe Rogus limestone, 675 note. interior of, 245. Hartest, section of well at, 375. Holywell Pits, Malinslee, section of, 482. Harwich, observations on the cliffs in the neigh­ . diagrams of faults in, 453. bourhood of, 259. Hope Cove, description of the cliffs from Mew- sections of wells at, S69. stone to, 657. Hassan Dagh Mountain, description of, and the strata near, 658. country between it and Kodj-hissar, 584. Hopkins, W., Esq., remarks on his researches in —— conclusions respecting the pheno­ Physical Geology, 621, 623,625, 628 note, 629. 738 INDEX.

Hopkins, W., Esq., quotation from, on the effects Ichthyosauri, observations on the adaptation of which would be produced, if the elevatory the structure of the neck to the habits of, 191. force had the character of an impulsive action, modifications in the cervical re­ 628 note. gion occur in animals of different species and Hornblende slate, account of, in Mayo and Sligo, age, 193. 161. Igloolik, notice of Orthocerata from, 706. Hornstone, notices of, in south of Ireland, 7, 13. Igneous agents, evidences of the disturbing power Hose Hill, near Reading, notice of beds sunk of, in Cutch, 307. through at, 129 and note. rocks, remarks on, in the Coalbrook Hot springs, description of, near Urjunah and Dale coal-field, 451. Kair, 556. minerals found in, 452. • notice of, in the Pindee Hills, 555. (see trap). Humboldt, A. de, observation by, respecting the Ilfracombe calcareous slates, range of the, de­ unequal action of earthquakes, 606. scribed, 642. — tables by, of volcanic phae- continuation proba­ nomena, 610. bly of the calcareous bands on the north-east observation of, on the grouping flanks of the Quantocks, 642. of volcanic phaenomena in Quito, 614. • resemble some of the — observations on his views re­ upper calcareous slates of Plymouth and Tor- specting parallelism of, in double chains of bay, 663. mountains, 627 note. remarks on the fossils Hunton, Louis, Esq., remarks on a section of the obtained from, 696. upper lias and marlstone of Yorkshire, showing —— harbour, description of the cliffs of, the limited vertical range of the Ammonites, 646. &c. 215. India, on the fossils of the eastern portion of the Hutnoor, description of the country near, 559,. great basaltic district of, 587. Hybodus keuperinus, notices respecting, 338. Inet, near Broseley, coal-shaft section, 478. Huronia, observations on the structure of, 708, Inferior oolite, composition of, on the coast of 711. Yorkshire, 227. distribution of fossils in, 228. I. Injesu, remarks on the country near, 594. Ichthyolites, observations on the position of, at Inkberrow, section of keuper marls and sandstones Gamrie, 139. near, 333. notices of in the Coal brook Dale Inveragh mountains, list of the highest points, 4.< field, 442. Ipswich, sections of wells near, and at, 380, 382. Ichthyosauri, on the dislocation of the tail at a Ireland, notices on the geology of the north coast certain point, observable in the skeleton of of Mayo and Sligo, 149. many, 511. • description of the line of on certain peculiarities in the cer­ coast, 151. vical vertebrae of, 187. notice of Mr. Griffith's geological map of, • description of the atlas and axis, 700 note. 187. of a skeleton map of, by Mr. Weaver, •—• description of the subvertebral 3 note. wedge bones of, 188. Ireland, Bermudas, account of the island of, 108. of the cervical verte­ Iron, manufacture of, in Cutch, 293. brae, 190. notice of a vein of, at Sharkham Point, 660. INDEX. 739

Iron ore, account of, in Cutch, 298. K. . • description of the, of Deemdoortee, Kair, account of the hot springs near, 556. 546. Kanturk, account of the coal-field of, 49, 51. its manufacture into notice of plants found in, 54. steel, 547. Katesgrove, account of the plastic clay at, 127. .. in the coal measures of description of the shelly bed near the the Forest of Dean, 203. surface, 128, 129. small quantity of, in the Munster coal list of the shells, 130. fields, 66. — comparison of the fossils in the Ironstone, on the probable origin of the, in the shelly bed with those found at Bognor, 130. coal measures, 470. Kenilworth Castle, section of a quarry north­ measures, account of, in Coalbrook west of, 345. Dale, 436. Kenmare Bay, description of the lead mines of, 28. works, notice respecting, in Coalbrook heights in the neighbourhood of, 4. Dale, 439. Kerry county, account of the transition series in, 6. Isis, figure of a fossil coral allied to, from Faxoe, —• carboniferous series in, 34. 249. notice of rolled debris in, 67. Keuper, account of equivalent beds in Glouces­ J. tershire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire, 332. Jarrer, dislocation in the strata near, 309. organic remains of, in Gloucestershire, Jaumtra, remarks on a basalt dyke cutting the Worcestershire, and Warwickshire, 338. strata near, 307. Kilbricken, notice of the mine of, 66 note. Jelly, Rev. H., fossil freshwater shells discovered Killala Bay, notices of trap dykes in, 164 et seq. by, on Shotover Hill, 261. —• woodcut of one, 167. Jet rock, Yorkshire, description of, 216. account of a trachytic rock on the rich in fossils, 217, 221. shores of, 168. peculiar suite of Ammonites, 217, Killarney limestone, description of, 17. 221. Kistnah, description of the granite platform be­ , Teleosaurus confined to, 217. tween the, and the Godavery, 544. Joints, account of, in the granite of Dartmoor, observations on the valley of the, 539. 685. Knockfeernagh, structure of the hill of, described, remarks on, in the cliffs near Ilfracombe, 86. 646. Knocknea, notice of the trap conglomerate of, 41. • : in the limestones of South Kodj-hissar, description of the salt lake of, 588. Devon, 655. country between, Juan Fernandez, notice of the effects of the earth­ and Caesarea, 590. quake, Feb. 1825, on the island of, 602, 607. Kotzebue, observations on his account of the in 1751, 602. Pacific coral reefs, 104 note. Jumna, description of the hills west of the, 273. Kunkur, remarks on the formation of, 554, 556. , organic remains found L. in them, 274. structure of the hills between the, and Lacustrine deposits, notice of, in Suffolk, 366. the Ganges, 269. Lake Winipeg, notice of Orthocerata from, 704. Ivy Bridge, notice of the structure of the country Laminated or upper secondary formation, account near, 653. of, in Cutch, 296. VOL. V. SECOND SERIES. 5 c 740 INDEX.

Laminated or upper secondary formation, appa­ Limestone of South Devon, characters of, 654. rent geological position of, with respect to the —• upper beds generally English series, 297. occur in great unconnected masses, 651. general shape of the separated by organic remains from hills belonging to the formation, 298. the mountain limestone, 652. probable manner in < — interpolated between two great groups which the hills have been formed, 299. of slate rock, 652. Land gaining on the sea, notices of, inCutch, 305. • transition, description of, in the south Langley, coal section at, 478. of Ireland, 7, 9, 16. field pits, section of, 481. • list of fossils in, 21. La Petite Riviere, account of change of level remarks on the effects of heat on per­ near, 97. fectly dry, 560. Laterite, remarks on the relative age of the, and fault, Coalbrook Dale, description of, trap of India, 573. 459. Lavenham, section of well at, 375. pit, Lincoln Hill, section of, 480. Leamington, section near, 343. Lindley, Prof., observations by, on the fofsil Lecka Hill, in Cutch, notice of, 316. plants of the new red sandstone at Hadley, 340. Lemus, elevation of the island of, by an earth­ remarks by, respecting the culm- quake, Nov. 1837, 605. plants of Devonshire, 681. Lias, account of, in the north-east of Antrim, 77. the fossil in Worcestershire, 260. plants from Sloly, 683. • the Squaloraia found in, 83. Linnel Braes, notice of fossil wood from, 209. subdivisions of, on the Yorkshire coast, 237. Linton, remarks on the neighbourhood of, 640,644. •— distribution of Lippe Buckeberg, description of a piece of wood fossils in, 215, 223. partially petrified from a Roman aqueduct, in Lidbrook Valley, Forest of Dean, contortions in the principality of, 207. the coal measures of, 201. —' • further notice of, 213. Lighthouse, woodcut of the cliff between Hoierup Little Wenlock, section of coal pit, 477. and the, 248. Lizard, notice of the rocks near the, 667. Lightmoor wimsey pit, section of, 475. Lodge pit, Madeley, sections of coal shafts, 477. Lignite, notice of, between the Jumna and the Lodgewood, north of Donnington, coal-pit section, Ganges, 270. 479. Lilleshall fault, description of, 457. Lonar lake, account of the, 562. section of the carboniferous series at, analysis of the waters, 563. 427. description of the sesquicarbonate of Limerick, height of the limestone plain of, 6. soda obtained from, 563. — notice of rolled debris in, 67. London clay, observations on a well dug in, on Limestone, description of, forming the Mingin the south side of Hampstead Heath, 131. islands, 92. • list of fossils found in the well, 134. • on the south coast of description of the new the St. Lawrence, 102. species, 136. of the Bermudas, contains recent shells, • vegetable remains preserving their colour, knee buckles, &c. found in, similar to those at Sheppey and High- 113. gate, 131. oolitic bed of, in the millstone grit notice of, near Harwich, 259. of the Forest of Dean, 203. in Suffolk, 361. INDEX. 741

Longbird Island, Bermudas, notice of, 107. Lyell, Charles, Esq., on the cretaceous and ter­ Lonsdale, Mr., on the supposed scarcity of the tiary strata in Seeland and Mden, 243. upper valves of Crania, 251 note. phenomena of earthquakes and vol­ notices of his placing the Devonshire canic eruptions at all epochs, account of, by, limestones between the carboniferous and Si­ quoted, 624 and note. lurian systems, 690, 696. ————— remark of, explanatory of the rare > list of Devonshire corals by, 697. occurrence of fossil birds' bones, 175. Looe, description of strata near, 665. Lynmouth, on the geological structure of the Lower culm measures of Devonshire, described, vicinity of, 639. 670. . description of the formations in the «. contain neighbourhood of, 644 and note. the wavellite, 671. Lyne, gorge of, a valley of elevation, 640. . greatly al­ valley of, exhibits the lowest strata of the tered near granite, 672. country, 641, 644 and note. . • description of the lower divi­ • • . structure of, 644. sion, 670. yields bad M. roofing-slates, 672 note. . ——— deposited anterior to the protrusion of the granite of Maclauchlan, H., Esq., notes to accompany a geo­ Dartmoor, 672. logical map of the Forest of Dean coal-field, ,—•— description of the upper divi­ 195. sion, 673. Mac-Gillicuddy's Reeks, list of the highest points, composed of black shale 4. and beds of black limestone, 673. Macrourous Decapods, notice of some remains of, , contains Goniatites, 673. 173. . — no fossils resem­ account of fossil Branchiae bling those of groups inferior to the culm of, 173. series, 673. Madeley, diagrams of faults in the parish of, 453. the southern calcareous Maestricht, notice respecting the resemblance of bands thicker than the northern, 674. the beds of, with those at Stevensklint, 252. ._:— section of, north of Tavi­ Magnesian conglomerate, description of three stock, 676 note. fossil Saurians from, 349. Lower oolitic carboniferous series, characters of, Magnetic iron ore, abounds on the north shore on the coast of Yorkshire, 229. of the St. Lawrence, 91. — . fossils of, 230. . affected the compasses used Lower Silurian rocks, notice of, in Coalbrook in surveying, 92. Dale, 418. *— — does not affect the needles of Low-water beaches, description of raised, 284. vessels sailing up the St. Lawrence, 92. Luckput, description of the nummulitic limestone affected the needle of the Gul- on which the town of, stands, 300. nare, when one and a half mile off Port Neuf, Ludlow rocks, accountof, in Coalbrook Dale, 422. 92. Lurgeiden Mountain, structure of, 76, 78, 79, 80. — variation, notice of, at the entrance of Lydian stone, south of Ireland, notice of, 7. Kenmare River, in 1756, 4 note, Lydney Park, description of a fault between, and ——. at Ross Island, Denbigh Lodge, 204. lower Lake of Killarney, 1829, 4 note. 5 2 742 IN D E X.

Magpie River to Mingan Islands, account of the Metallic deposits, general observation on segre­ coast from the, 91. gated, in south of Ireland, 66. Malcolmson, J. G. Esq., on the fossils of the Mew Stone to Hope Cove, description of the eastern portion of the Great Basaltic District cliffs from, 657. of India, 537. Mhurr, account of the alum works near, 295. Manicouagan shoals, St. Lawrence, notice of, 90. . . the quartz rock near, 291. Manitoulin islands, limestone of, very bituminous, . Hills, description of the country near the, 93 note. 303. Man Sands, notice of the rocks near, 660. Mica slate, description of, near Gamrie, 141. Mantell, Dr., on the bones of birds discovered •• • in the north-east of in the strata of Tilgate Forest, 175. Antrim, 70. Maracaybo, notice of the natron of a lake near, in Mayo and Sligo, 151, 563 note. 161. Marcet, Dr., remarks on his analysis of the south of Fair Head, waters of the Lake Ourmia, 564. 180. Marine forests, description of, in Gutch, 305. Mid-water beaches, description of raised, 284. Marine and freshwater strata, account of alter­ Millstone grit of the Forest of Dean, oolitic bed nations of, in Coalbrook Dale coal measures, of limestone in the, 203. 463. Milltown, notice of mine at, 66 note* Marlstone, account of, in Easington Heights, 217. Minerals, list of, in the coal-measures of Coal­ • — characteristic fossils, 218. brook Dale, 487. list of fossils found in, 219. « notice of, in the igneous rocks of section of the beds, 221. Coalbrook Dale, 452. —— distribution of fossils in, on the York­ 1 remarks on the origin of, in Trap, shire coast, 215, 224. 559. section of, between Staithes and Salt- Mineral water, analysis of a, from the Island of burn, 237. St. Paul, 261. Marwood quarries, list of fossils found in, 648, <• analysis of, near Oxford, 263. 695. Mines, description of the Annagh, near Castle- Mastodon Elephantoides and M. latidens, sup­ maine, 64, posed to be one species, 276. notice of, near Tralee, 65. — observations on north of Rathkeale, 65. the supposition by the referee, 276 note. Askeaton, 65. Marine shells, notice of existing species in the at Ringabella, 25. drift of Coalbrook Dale, 462 and note. Doneen, 25. Mayo, notices on the geology of the north coast, . Audley, 26. 149. Cappagh, 26. Mazunderan, geological notes on part of, 577. Ballydebob, 26. Meadow Pits, Madeley, sections of, 484. of Allihies, 27. diagram of faults in, 454. — Kenmare, 28. Mellipulli, earthquake of Feb. 1835, scarcely — Muckruss, 29. felt at, 605. — Ross Island, 30. Menaccanite, notice of its occurrence in the — Crow Island, 34. Bermudas, 105. Mingan Islands, description of, 92. on the formed of limestone containing shores of Virginia, 12L Orthocerata and other fossils, 93. INDEX. 743

Mingan Islands, account of the limestone columns, Mountain chains, observations respecting the 93. axes of, 619. a succession of beaches, theoretical considerations on 93. the slow elevation of, 625. inferences respecting, 93. the earthquake of Concepcion, effects of drift, on the 20th Feb., probably marked one step in the columns, 95. elevation of a mountain chain, 628. to Cape Whittle, account of the Mountains, heights of the principal, in the south­ coast from the, 99. east of Antrim, 69. Michell, Rev. John, extracts from his memoir on Moy river, notice of its course, 151. volcanos, 606 note, 613 note, 615 note, 620. Moyne, account of an oolitic variety of car­ Mitchell, Dr., observations on the cliffs in the boniferous limestone between Rathrea and, neighbourhood of Harwich, 259. 155. Moen, on the cretaceous and tertiary strata in section of the calcareous shale and grit the island of, 243. near, 157. description of the chaiK and boulder Muckruss, account of the copper mine of, formation of, 252. 29. cliffs on the coast Mudstone Sands, description of the strata in the of, 253. cliff of, 652, 659, 660 note. explanation of masses of clay and sand in Mulatto, account of, in Antrim, 78. the chalk of, 256. Mullach-fin-ooar, notices of the hill of, 76, 80, Monkey, fossil, on the remains of a, from the 81. tertiary strata of the Sevalik Hills, 499. Munster coal-fields, poor in iron ore, 66. Moore, Dr., notice of fossils found by, 657 Murchison, R. I., Esq., notice of marine shells note. discovered by, in the drift of Salop, &c, 462 Morris, Mr. John, notioes of fossil plants de­ note. scribed by, 327, 488 note, also description of reference to his account the plates.. of dikes of quartz rock and calcareous grit in Morte Bay, notices of the formation composing Scotland, 600 note. the cliffs of, 647. . and Sedgwick, Rev. Morte slates, or fourth group of North Devon, Prof., description of a raised beach in Barn­ range of, described, 642. staple or Bideford Bay, 279. — separable into two divisions, 642. . — and Sedgwick, Rev. •» • • lower, abound in chlo- Prof., on the physical structure of Devonshire, ritic schist, 642, 647. &c, 633, 688. . upper, abound in arena­ and Strickland, H. E. ceous beds, 642, 647. Esq., on the upper formations of the new-red- Mould, on the formation of, 505. sandstone system, in Gloucestershire, Worces­ Mount Argaeus, structure of, and surrounding tershire, and Warwickshire, 331. district, described, 594. Muriate of soda, notice of an efflorescence of, on • Batten, notice of the strata composing, the first ridge of hills stretching down from 657. Mount Argaeus, 595. — Leinster, height of, 6. Murlogh Bay, notices of formations in, 71, 74, Mountain chains, observations on the formation 76, 77, 79, 80. of, as effects of the same power by which Muschelkalk, probable representative of, in continents are elevated, 601. Shropshire, 346. 744 INDEX.

N. North Munster, account of the carboniferous series in, 55. Nagpoor, description of the vicinity of, 558, 561. - coal-field, description of, 56. . • of the country between the North and South Devon, comparison between the Sichel Hills and, 553. structure of, 662. Natron, remarks on the formation of, 563. __ , no rocks contained in, Natural walls, account of, on the Grand Runn, of equal age with the rocks of Snowdonia, or 321. green slates of Cumberland, 662. Needham and Needham Market, sections of wells . formations of, belong to at and near, 379. one system, 689. New Quay, notice of fossils found near, 667, — classification of the for­ 697. mations to be made out only by Zoological Newton Bushel, notice of an outlying basin of evidence, 689. culm measures south of, 670 note. remarks on the first limestone, identified with that of classification of, 689. Babacombe and Torbay, 652. — are not to be placed Nelson, Lieut., on the Geology of the Bermudas, below the Silurian system, 689. 103. assigned to the age of remarks on his account of the the old red system, 691. formation of white calcareous mud from North Devon section, remarks on the fossils ob­ Zoophytes, 252. tained from the inferior groups of, 696. Nembscheher, structure of the vicinity of, 592. North Hill, on the structure of, 639, 640, Nerbudda, remarks on the valley of the, 538. 645. Newent coal-field, description of, 203. Norton Hall, section at, 376. New Hadley, diagram of faults in the parish of, Nucula ovum, characteristic of the beds of shale 455. used in the manufacture of alum, 216 and —- section of coal-pit at, 481. note. New red sandstone, description of, in the north­ Nummulitic limestone and marl, description of, east of Antrim, 75. in Cutch, 300. . • notice of, in the neighbour­ hood of Coalbrook Dale, 447. O. plants found in, at Hadley, 340. Oakhampton, granite veins penetrate altered system, description of the beds to the south-west of, 673. upper formations of the, in Gloucestershire, Ogwell limestone, notice of corals found in, Worcestershire and Warwickshire, 331, 339. 697. • • foreign equivalents of, 331. Old Park pits, section of* 483. New-works, New Lawley, coal-pit section, 477. Old red sandstone, description of, in the Brown New York, notice of the carboniferous limestone Clee Hill, 125. and old red sandstone, in the State of, 59 note. • »in Clare, 55. Nicholson, Mr., syenite veins in mica-slate and — in Coalbrook chalk at Goodland Cliff and Torr Eskert, first Dale, 424. noticed by, 179 note. • •— in counties Nitre, soil near Caesarea charged with, 595. Cork, Limerick, and Kerry, 34.

Nonsuch, Castle, and Goat Islands, Bermudas, : in the Forest notice of, 107. of Dean, 196. INDEX. 745

Old red sandstone in the Forest of Dean, divisible Orthocerata, on some species of, 705. into three portions, 196. remarks respecting the probability • cornstone bed, 196. of certain of them having been internal shells, —— middle or conglomerate bed, 711. 196. observations on a peculiarity in the • resemblance of, septa of the chambers, 712. to the millstone grit, 197. •—• the state of pre­ , upper bed, 197. servation of, 713. outliers of, 197. • • the forms of the dislocations in, 198. animals inhabiting, and the duties performed description of near Gamrie, by them, 713. 141. Osorno, outburst of, during the earthquake, of — in the north­ Feb. 1825, and in Nov. and Dec. 1835, 604. east of Antrim, 71. Jan. 1835, 611, 612. . . in Shallee Oversley Lower Lodge, section of keuper marls Mountain, 63. and sandstone at, 335. _____ notices respecting, in the Ourmia, account of the lake of, 564. United States, 59 note. analysis of the water, 564. remarks on its connexion Outard Bay, account of sediment suspended in with the carboniferous formations, 34 the upper stratum of water of, 90. note. Owen, R., Esq., observations respecting the fossil . account of lead vein in, on birds' bones found in the Tilgate strata, the north face of Shallee Mountain, 60. 176. —-——-— and conglomerate, descrip­ on the supposed tion of, in the north-west portions of Mayo identity of Mastodon Elephantoides and M. and Sligo, 157. latidens, 276 note. Old red system, the fossiliferous slates of Corn­ on the dislocation wall and the formations below the culm-mea­ of the tail at a certain point observable in the sures of Devonshire, assigned to the, 691. skeleton of many Ichthyosauri, 511. Old water-pit in the Rough Park, section of, » description of a specimen of the 480. Plesiosaurus macrocephalus, in the collection Old work at Dawley, section of, 480. of Viscount Cole, 515. Ombersley, account of the new red sandstone on a bone of a Mammifer found near, 340. at Hinganghat, 558 note. Ooglit, notice of Orthocerata found at, 706. Ox Mountains, account of, 149 et seq. Oolite of the carboniferous limestone, description — description of the passes through, of, between Moyn'e and Rathrea, 155. 150. Ophiura Egertoni, description of, 174. carboniferous • distinction between, and O. limestone of, 154. Milleri, 174. calcareous and Ore Point, description of the strata composing, argillaceous shell and grit of, 156. 665. . . old red sand­ Organics, account of, in the Bermudas, 111. stone and conglomerate, 157. Organic Remains. See Fossils. _. quartz rock, Ormoceras, a genus of Orthocerata, described, 158. 709. gneiss, 159. 746 INDEX.

Ox Mountains, account of the mica slate of, 161. Plesiosaurus macrocephalus, comparison of, with Oxford, analysis of a saline spring near, 263. the P. Hawkinsii, 523. the P. cervical vertebrae, 523. Padstow, remarks on peculiarities of structure in . dorsal the calcareous slates west of, 655, 665 note. vertebrae, 525. notice of fossils found near, 667, 697. . : sacral Parish, Sir Woodbine, notice of fossils found in vertebrae, 526. the Bognor rocks, 262. . the Pennar, observations on the valley of the, 540. tail, 527. Pentacrinites, notice of fragments of, found in a pecto­ well at Hampstead, 132. ral extremity, 529. Pentland, J. Esq., reference to his observations pelvic on Indian tertiary deposits, 277. extremity, 530. Peperite, description of, near Caesarea, 595. tj,e Permizen Bay, notice of calcareous slates in, 667. head, 531. Petherwin group, notices of fossils found in, 693, Plymouth limestone, considered to be the equiva­ 694, 697. lent of that of Berry Head, 650. , . agree gene­ 1 description of, 653. rally with those of Barnstaple, Marwood, &c, not traceable west of White- 694. sand Bay, 653, 664. . ______placed on a parallel with the description of a section from. Barnstaple beds, 694. Dartmoor to the, 653. Petrification, first ocular demonstration of pro­ from gressive steps in, 214. the, to Bolt Head, 656. Petroleum springs, notice of, in Coalbrook Dale, corals found in, 697. 438. Point of Garron, notices of the neighbourhood of, Phillips, Prof., remarks on his opinion that rocks 77, 79, 80. are imperfectly elastic in the mass, 620. Pointe de Monts to the Seven Islands, account • observations by, on the Devon­ of the coast from, 90. shire fossils, 692, 693. Polparrow, description of the strata near, 665. list by, of coal plants found near Poolacloger, contorted strata north of, 165. Kanturk, 54. Popple bank, North Devonshire, observations on, Pindee Hills, description of, 555. 282, 285. Pinnacles, account of, in the Bermudas, 120. Porlock,remarks on the neighbourhoodof, 639,645. Plastic clay, notice of, in a well sunk at Hamp­ Pottinger, Col., notice of fossils collected in stead, 131, 133. Cutch by, 717. . _ . the fossils found in the bed Porphyry, in the north-east of Antrim, described, of hard stone between the London clay and 73. the, 133. • dislocating

near Read­ effects of and changes produced by, 73. ing, 127. ~— newer than in Suffolk, 361. the old red sandstone, more ancient than the Plesiosaurus, exposition of the general characters new red, 73. of the vertebral column of, 521. a bed of clay porphyry, probably in­ ? macrocephalus, description of, 515. cluded in old red sandstone, at Fair Head, 74, INDEX. 747

Porphyry, notice of, at the falls of the Manitou the belief that the beach has been raised, 281, river, 91. 282, 287. not previously Raised beach, account of, at La Petite Riviere, observed in Lower Canada, 91. 97. notices respecting in South Munster, Raised beaches, description of, in Seven Islands 40 et seq. Bay, 90. Port Vinegar, account of new red, near, 75. the Mingin Is­ Prawle Point, remarks on the crystalline schists lands, 93. near, 659. —. observations on, along the coasts Prestwich, Joseph, Esq., on the structure of the of Devonshire and Cornwall, 283. neighbourhood of Gamrie, 139. —• divided into high shingle beaches, _„ on the geology of Coal- mid-water beaches, low-water beaches, 284. brook Dale, 413. Rathkeale, notice of metalliferous deposits north Priorslee, diagram of fault at, 454. of, 65. Pumiceous rocks, notices of, in part of Asia Ravines, account of, in the Island of Moen, 253 Minor, 585, 591, 592, 593. et seq. • section of, near Akserai, Reading, on the geological structure of the neigh­ 585. bourhood of, 127. Punundrow, description of the effects of igneous observations on the rise and fall of water action on rocks, near, 309. in the wells in, 129. Recent shells, account of, found in superficial Q. beds in the Castle Hill, Gamrie, 147. Red arenaceous beds between Mount Batten and Quantock Hills, notices of the geological structure the cliffs opposite the Mewstone, stated to re­ of the, 638, 645. semble the arenaceous rocks east of Combe Quarry Island, limestone perforated by Lithodomi Martin, 657. above the ordinary reach of the tide, 94 note. : — greywacke of North Devon, de­ • inferences respecting, 94 scribed, 639 et seq. • note. mj_ Quartz resinite, notice of, to the eastward of neral composition of, 645. Urgub, 594. Red Bay, account of new red sandstone in, 77. rock, notices of, in Cutch, 291. Redlop Cove, notice of the strata near, 661. — in the north-west por­ Red marl, notice of, in Worcestershire, 260. tions of Mayo and Sligo, 158. sandstone, account of, in Cutch, 296. . disloca­ Reefs, account of, in the Bermudas, 105, 116. tions in, 158. Renville peninsula, notice of rolled debris on the, south of Ireland, 68. 7, 12. Richardson, Dr., notices of Orthocerata collected by, 704 et seq. R. Ridgeway, description of trap and slate near, 653. Radiata, description of some fossil, found at Lyme Riley, H., M.D., on the Squaloraia, 83. Regis, 171, 173. and Stutchbury, Mr. S., on Raised beach, description of a, in Barnstaple Bay, three distinct fossil saurians from the Magne- 279, 287. sian conglomerate near Bristol, 349. collateral evidence in support of Ringabella lead mine, notice of, 25. VOL. V.—-SECOND SERIES. 5 D 748 INDEX.

Rocks of igneous origin, account of, in the Coal- Sandstone formation of part of Asia Minor, de­ brook Dale district, 449. scription of, 584, 587, et seq. Rock salt, notice of, on the borders of Fontus • and clay, with beds of coal, description and Galatia, 589. of, in Cutch, 292. Rofe, J. Esq., on the geological structure of the Santon Down, notices of the slates and flagstones neighbourhood of Reading, 127. near, 643, 648. Roman aqueduct, description of a piece of wood Saurians, description of three, from the magne- partially petrified from a, 207 et seq. sian conglomerate, near Bristol, 349. further notice of, 213. Scabbacombe Sands, description of the strata Ross, near Killala, section of the calcareous shale near, 660. and grit at, 156. Scapbites gigas, remarks on, 411. Island mine, description of, 30. Schistose rocks, description of, near Gamrie, Roha-ke-Koss, account of disturbed beds near, 140. 309. Schulau, notice of fossils near, 244. Rowington, section of keuper sandstone at, 33G. structure of the cliffs between, and Rough Park, engine pit, section at, 480. Blankenese Point, 244. Rushmere, sections at and near, 382. Scrope, G. Poulett, Esq., opinion of, respecting the trachyte of Mayo, 168. Sea beaches, account of ancient, in the Seven S. Islands, 90. Secular shrinking of the earth's crust, objection Sacral vertebrae, comparison of, in the Plesio- to its being supposed a primary motive power saurus macrocephalus and P. Hawkinsii, 526. in all subterraneous disturbances, 631. Saguenay river to Pointe de Monts, account of the Sedgwick, Prof., and Murchison, R. I., Esq. de­ coast from the, 89. scription of a raised beach in Barnstaple or Saliferous marls and sandstone, description of, in Bideford Bay, on the north-west coast of De­ Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Warwick­ vonshire, 279. shire, 332. — . on Saline spring, notice of, at Admaston, 449 note. the physical structure of Devonshire, &c., 633, analysis of, near Oxford, 263. 688. Saltburn, section of marlstone between Staithes Seeland, on the cretaceous and tertiary strata in, and, 237. 243. Salt mines of Hadji Bektash, notice of the, 591. Seetabuldee Hill, structure of, 558. Sand drifts of Elbow Bay in the Bermudas con­ Sesquicarbonate of soda, observations on the, of tain concretions and layers of stone, 110. the Lonar lake, 563. Sand encroachments, account of, in the Bermudas, Serpuline reefs, distinctions between, and coral 109. reefs, 105, 117. —— stopped by trees, 109r Sevalik Hills, on the structure of the, and their , advanced about 200 yards organic remains, 267. between 1807 and 1833, 110. notices respecting their physical out­ Sand-hills, near Alvechurch, section of, 342 note. line, 267. Sandstone, notice of recent, forming near the — some of the organic remains found river St. John, 91. in, identical with fossils obtained near Prome, description of the, in which the dia­ 277. mond breccia of India occurs, 542, 557. fossils of, present a mixture of ex­ . remarks on its relative age, 568. tinct and existing forms, 503. INDEX. 749

Seven Islands, account of alluvial accumulations Smerwick Harbour, notice of rocks in the neigh­ on the, 90. bourhood of, 8. ancient beaches of, described, 90. Sneds-Hill, list of coal seams and ironstone to the Moisic, account of the measures at, 478. coast from the, 91. Somerset Island, Bermudas, observations re­ Shallee Mountain, account of lead vein in the, specting, 107. 61. Somersetshire, description of part of the north­ = description of old red sandstone west of, 638. of, 63. Sommerspiret, wood-cut of the ravine at, 254. Sharkham Point, notice of the cliffs of, 660. • description of the strata, 255. •• • •.— vein of iron ore at, South America, observations on the connexion 660. of certain volcanic phaenomena in, 601. Shelley Church, section of a chalk-pit near, 373. nature of the earthquakes of, 615. Shingle, beds of, above high-water mark, contain remarks on their con­ recent shells near Gamrie, 148. nexion with the volcanic phaenomena in the Shotover Hill, notice of fossil freshwater shells West Indies and the Mississippi, 611. in, 261. • conclusions drawn from, Shrewley Common, notice of keuper sandstone 619. at, 336. —* general conclusions deduced from notice of impressions in the the phaenomena exhibited during earthquakes keuper sandstone of, 339. and volcanic eruptions in, 629. Sichel Hills, description of, 548. South Devon, characters of the limestones of, observations on the, 561. 654. description of the country between . upper limestones occur generally the, and Nagpoor, 553. in great unconnected masses, 651. Silicified wood, remarks on the, found near Pon- —• . observations on the fossils ob­ dicherry, 572. tained from, 696. Slate, description of, in the south of Ireland, 7,12. list of corals, 697. , notice of fossils in, 12. shells, 698. rocks of Cornwall, description of, 664. some of the shells resemble — of the same age as the mountain limestone species, 698. slate system of South Devon, 668, 689. South of Ireland, Mr Weaver on the geological Slaty cleavage, observations on, in the cliffs of relations of, 1. Ilfracombe Harbour, 646. points of difference between Slieve Meesh range, notices respecting the struc­ the memoir printed and that read June 4, 1830, ture of the, 8, 36, 88. 1 note. Sligo, notices on the geology of the north coast, . list of heights above the level 149. of the sea, in the, 4. Sloly quarry, notice of vegetable remains found • — physical features of the, 4. in, 648, 683, 695. geological constitution of, 3. remarks on, by Prof. Lindley, 683, general relations of the for­ 695. mations of, 6. • Henslow, 695. transition series, description of, — other organic remains, 648. 6 to 24. Smee, Capt., notice of fossils collected by, in metalliferous Cutch, 715. relations of the, 24 to 34. 5D 2 750 INDEX.

South of Ireland, carboniferous series, description St. George's Island, Bermudas, description of, 106. of, 34- to 50. St. Lawrence, notes on the Geology of the north . metallife­ coast of the, 89. rous relations of the, 60 to 67. between the Saguenay and Pointe general observation on segre­ de Monts, 89. gated metallic deposits in the, 66. from Pointe de Monts to the Seven notices of diluvial action in the, Islands, 90. 67. Seven Islands to the Moisic,91. South Munster, description of the carboniferous Magpie river to Mingan, 91. series of, 34. Mingan Island to Cape Whittle, Sowerby, Mr. J. de Carle, on Crioceratites and 99. Scaphites gigas, 409. account of the Mingan and Esqui­ notices by, of Devon­ maux islands, 92. shire fossils, 692,693, and description of plates. metallic minerals rare along the Cutch fossils, north coast, 99. 327, 715. • notices of the islands on the south Coalbrook shore, 110. Dale fossils, 491. —: of the south shore of the, 110. • Hampstead St. Paul, analysis of a mineral water from the is­ fossils, 136. land of, 261. — Indian fossils, St. Peter's Mount, Maestricht, resemblance of its 570. chalk to that of Stevensklint, 252. Spari, notice of the calcareous excrement of, Start Point, description of a section from Berry 252 note. Head to, 659. Spike Island, structure of, 19. Steeraways, section of the carboniferous limestone Spilsburg, Dr., notice of his discovery of fossil at, 425. freshwater shells in India, 570. Stevensklint, description of the white chalk and Spry, Dr., notice of fossil freshwater shells, dis­ coralline limestone of, 246. covered by, in India, 570. wood-cuts of a section near, 247,248. Squaloraia, description of the, 83. upper limestone, position of, with re­ observations on, by Prof. Agassiz, 85 ference to the Faxoe limestone,25 land wood-cut. note. to Faxoe, section (wood-cut) of the Staithes, section of Marlstone between, and Salt- strata from, 251. burn, 237. Stoke, description of the strata near, 661. St. Abb's Head, observations on the old red and Stokes, C. Esq., notice respecting a piece of re­ associated strata north of, 694 note. cent wood partly petrified by carbonate of St. Agnes, country around, altered by granite and lime, with some remarks on fossil wood, 207. elvan dykes, 667. on some species of Orthocerata, 705. St. Austell Bay, description of the coast section Stowmarket, sections of wells, at and near, 376, on the east side of, 665. 378. . Granite, section from Dodman Point Street, notice of reversed dip north of, 661. to the, 666. Strickland, H. E. Esq., notices by, of the red marl St. David's Island, Bermudas, description of, and lias of Worcestershire, and of freshwater 106. shells at Shotover, 260. St. Genevieve Island, notice of the country near, < on some remarkable dikes 99. of calcareous grit at Ethie in Ross-shire, 599. INDEX. 751

Strickland, H. E. Esq., and Murchison, R. I. Taylor, John, Esq., observations on the strata Esq. on the upper formations of the new red penetrated in sinking a well at Diss, 137. sandstone system, in Gloucestershire, Worces­ Teavaragh, notices of the hill of, 73, 81. tershire and Warwickshire, 331. Teignmouth, notice of fossil corals found near, Sturchley, commencement of Meadow-pits, sec­ 697. tion of coal-pit, 482. Teleosaurus, found only in the Jet Rock in York­ Stutchbury, Mr. S. and Riley, Henry, M.D., on shire, 217. three distinct fossil Saurians from the magnesian Terebratula striatula, fossil found in the London conglomerate near Bristol, 349. clay at Hampstead not to be distinguished from Subvertebral wedge-bones, description of, in the the shell so called obtained from the chalk, Ichthyosaurus, 188. 132. Suffolk, on the geological structure and pheno­ Tertiary deposits of the north coast of the St. mena of, 359. Lawrence, notices of, 89 et seq. physical features of the county, 359. . not to be confounded with mo­ description of the geological structure, 360. dern alluvial deposits, 90. chalk, 360, 370 et seq. strata, description of, in Cutch, 302. . plastic clay, 361, 369 et seq. fossils found in, 304, 327. . • London clay, 361, 369 et seq. Thessalon Island, notice of Orthocerata from, 705. crag, 362, 369 et seq. Tides, four feet six inches, average height in the '. diluvium, 365. Bermudas, 105. . erratic blocks, 366. Tilgate Forest, description of the bones of birds, lacustrine deposits, 366. discovered in the strata of, 175. . causes in action, 366. Tintagel slate, notice of the fossils contained in sectional list of wells, &c, 369 et seq. the, 668. Syenite, description of, in Parkur, Cutch, 291. — • considered as belonging to an * reniform masses of, inclosed in the chalk upper group of the slate series, 668. of Torr Eskert, 184. Tipperary, notice of rolled debris in, 67. — veins, account of the, which traverse mica, mountains, heights in the, 6. slate and chalk at Goodland Cliff and Torr Es­ Torbay> description of a section from the east side kert, 179. of Dartmoor to, 650. first observed by Mr. Nicholson, 179 • and Berry Head, limestones of, belong to note. the highest strata of the older formations in the Sykes, Lieut. Col. W. H., notice by, respecting south-east of Dartmoor, 650. some fossils collected in Cutch, 715. limestone, identified with that of Newton Symon faults, account of, 432, 457. Bushel and Babbacombe, 652. Tor Cross, description of the cliff near, 65%, 661. T. Torquay, notice of corals found near, 697. Taleren, Moen, account of the strata in the neigh­ Torr Eskert, account of the syenite veins which bourhood of the rock called, 253. traverse mica slate and chalk at, 179, 182. — explanation of the supposed al­ sections (wood-cut) of the veins, ternation of chalk with tertiary strata near, 253. 183, 184. Tan, power of, to reduce metallic oxides, 214. Torr Point, notices of, 71. Tatlar, structure of the igneous rocks near, 591. Tostock, depth of gravel at, 376. ———• account of the conical hills near, 591. Totness, nature of the strata between, and Kings- Tattingstone, sections at, 381. bridge, 661 note. Taylor, John, Esq., notice of mines opened by, in Trachyte, description of, in Mayo, 16.8. the county Clare, 65 note. relative age of, 170. 752 INDEX.

Trachyte, description of, in Asia Minor, 584 Ullah Bund, notice of a bank in the Indus near, 319. et seq. Ulloa, references to his account of the earth­ Trachytic conglomerates, descriptions of, in quakes in South America, 606 note, 614, 615. Asia Minor, 584 et seq. United States, notice on the carboniferous series Tralee, notice of layers of lead near, 65. in the, by Mr. Weaver, 58 et seq. note. Transition limestone of the south of Ireland, me­ Upper culm measures of Devonshire, description talliferous deposits in the, described, 27. of, 677. series, account of, in Kerry, Cork and ' ' • essentially Waterford, 6. composed of sandstone and shale, 677. .. list of fossils contained in, in strata vio­ the south of Ireland, 10 and note, 15. lently contorted, 677. » . list of fossils said to be com­ •- vegetable mon to, and the carboniferous system, 10 note. remains abundant in, 678. United States, geographical dis­ . contain tribution of Trilobites in the, 60 note, 62 note. thin beds of impure limestone, 678 note. tract, south of Ireland, metalliferous account of the bands of culm near Bideford, 680. relations of, 24. of Trap, notice of, in Antrim, 81. in the Coalbrook Dale district, the plants obtained from, 681. 449. •• • • considered rocks, description of, in Cutch, 806. to be the equivalent of the ordinary British , at Gamrie, 144. coal-fields, 682, 688. , inMayoandSligo, 162. Upper lias shale, description of, at Easington " in part of Asia Minor, Heights, 215. 590 et seq. characteristic fossils, 215, 221. relative age of the, and laterite of India, systematic list of the fossils, 219. 573. section of the beds, 221. dykes, account of parallel, in Mayo and Upper Silurian rocks, notice of, in Coalbrook Sligo, 162. Dale, 419. and porphyry of South Munster, notices re­ Urgub, structure of the country near, 592, 593. specting, 40 et seq. conical hills near, 593. Trees, account of action produced in, by earth­ Utch-hissar, description of the country near, 592. quakes, 602, 603. conical hills of, Trial pit, Castle Green, section of, 475. 592. near Lilleshall Old Hall, 479. V. Trilobites, geographical description of, in the trans­ ition series of the United States, 60 note, 62 Valdivia, motion of the ground at, during note. the earthquake Feb. 1835, compared to the . car­ bending of a sheet of ice, 620. boniferous series, 61. Valley of rocks, notices respecting, 640, 641, 644, 645. U. Valleys, between granite hills, north coast of the Ugbrook Park, notice of complicated junctions St. Lawrence, occupied by bed3 of gravel, near, 670 note. sand and clay, 89. . culm sandstone in, 678. of elevation, remarks on, 640 and note. Ugborough, description of formations near, 650, Vegetable organics, notice of, in the Bermudas, 653. 115. INDEX. 753

Verschoyle, Archdeacon, notices on the geology Volcanos and earthquakes, apparent connexion of, of the north coast of Mayo and Sligo, 149. in South America; eruptions of Osorno, Cor­ Vertebra, Mr. Owen on the composition of a, 518. covado, &c. and the earthquakes of Feb. and Vertebral column, exposition of the general cha­ Nov. 1835, 604, 606. racters of the, in Plesiosauri, 521. —— near Valdivia, and Veryan Bay and Looe, Killas thrown into a trough the destruction of Valparaiso, 1822, 606 note. between, 666. • of Patas and Lucanas, Villarica, volcano of, not affected during the out­ and the overthrow of Lima, 1746,606 note, 614. bursts in the Cordilleras and the earthquake, of Pasto and the de­ 1835, 605, 631. struction of Riobamba, 606. action of, during the earthquake, 1822, — proofs of connexion not 605, 631. always decisive, 611, 612. Volcanic eruptions, proofs of distinct periods of, -—-—•— • observation of Ulloa re­ inCutch, 312. specting the connexion of, 615. recent outbursts of, inCutch, 316. Voysey, Dr., notice of his discovery of fossil : have occurred at all epochs in freshwater shells in India, 570. the earth's history, 624. • by, of the country near the outbursts, considered to be effects of Taptee, 571. the same force as that which elevates conti­ on the nents, 606. rivers Kistnah and Pennar, 574. phenomena, tables of, by A. de Hum­ W. boldt and Mr. Darwin, 610. rocks, structure of, in part of Asia Warwick, remarks on the upper portions of the Minor, 584, 591, 592, 594, 595. new red sandstone system near, 837. — and trappean rocks, account of, in sandstone of, described, 342. Cutch, 306. • • occupies the same po­ Volcanos, on the formation of, as one of the sition as the sandstone of Ombersley and effects of the same power by which continents Bromsgrove, 342, 345. are elevated, 601. • fossils found in, 343. in South America, contemporaneous . concluding observations outbursts of, 604. respecting, 345. . Osorno, Minchinmadom, Cor- Warwickshire, description of the upper forma­ covado, Yantales, &c. Feb. 1835, 604, 607. tions of the new red sandstone system in, 331. Osorno and Corcovado, Nov. Water, account of supplies in the Bermudas, 120. 1835, 604. Waterford, county, description of the metallife­ Osorno, Aconcagua and Cose- rous deposits in the transition series of, 24. guina, January 1835, 611, 612. ——• transition not equally affected series in, 12. during periods of renewed energy, though mountains, highest point of, above the situated on the same chain, 605. level of the sea, 6. of the Cordillera may be grouped into Waters'-meet, notices respecting the strata near, systems, 614. 644. — the vents of each system probably Wavellite obtained in Devonshire from the lower united, but no proofs that the systems are, 614. culm measures, 671. and earthquakes, apparent connexion . found in coal shales in South Wales, of, in South America, 602, 611. 671 note. 754 INDEX.

Weaver, Thomas, Esq., on the geological relations Wood, account of a piece of recent beech, partly of the South of Ireland, 1. petrified by carbonate of lime, further notice . notice on the carbonife­ of, 213. rous series in the United States, by, 58 et seq. analysis of one of the petrified portions, 208. note. similar appearance in a specimen of silici- Wedgewood, Esq., remarks on his ex­ fied wood from Antigua, pointed out by Mr. planation of the process by which cinders and R. Brown, 208. other substances become buried, 507. Woodbridge, sections of wells near, 382. Weeley Barracks, section of a well at, 369. Woolverstone, sections near, 381. Wenlock shale and limestone, account of, in Coal- Woombridge, section of beds in the coal shaft at, brook Dale, 419. below the flint coal, 479. Wetherell, N. Esq., observations by, on a well dug pit, next the engine, section of, 480. on the side of Hampstead Heath, 181. • sections at, 475. Wheal Betsey lead vein, situated in the culm Worcestershire, description of the upper forma­ measures, 670 note. tions of the new red sandstone system in, 331. Friendship copper vein, notice of its being Wrekin, account of the faults on the flanks of situated in part in the culm measures, 670 note. the, 458. Wherstead, section of a well at, 382. • structure of the, 449. White chalk, account of, at Stevensklint, 247. Wright, Romley, Esq., on the Brown Clee Hill, freshwater limestone, description of, in 125. Asia Minor, 584, 589, 590, 595. Hills, Gamrie, notice of patches of drained Y. peatmoss around, 148. Yantales, phenomena presented by, Feb. 1835, Nab, section of great oolite at, 231, 237. 604, 607. Whitton, section at, 379. Yealm, notice of the beds south of the, 658. Wickham Market, section of a well at, 377. Yew-tree pit, Calcut field, Broseley, section of, Williams, Rev. David, on the raised beaches in 481. Barnstaple or Bidefovd Bay, 287. Yorkshire, on a section of the upper lias and notice of his finding vegetable remains marlstone of, 215. in the quarry at Sloly, 648, 683. coast, on the distribution of fossils on , •-— collection of Devonshire the, from the lower lias to the Bath oolite, 223. and Cornish fossils, 692 note. systematic list of the fossils, Williamson, W. C. Esq., on the distribution of 238. fossil remains on the Yorkshire coast from the stratigraphical table of the for­ lower lias to the Bath oolite, 223. mations, 237. Willisham, sections of wells at, 379. Youghall, account of the limestone near, 18. Witnesham, section of well at, 379. Won, description of the hill of, 557. Z. Wood, account of a piece of recent beech, partly petrified by carbonate of lime, 207. Zynad, description of the country near, 553.

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