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Show 814 INDEX. · Caernarvonshire, recent discovery of tertiary strata in, 305. Calabria, animals how preserved in alluvium in, 230. --animals engulphed in fissures in, 231. Calcareous marl of the Scotch lakes, shells found in the, 272. Calcareous formations of the Pacific, probably all stratified, 294. --their great extent, 298. . . Calcareous matter, the theory that 1t lS on the increase controverted, 300. Caldera of the isle of Palma, ravine in the, how formed, 292. Callao, recent changes of level caused by eat·thquakes in, 265. Camels, the carcasses of imbedded in drift-sand, 235. Campania, people destroyed by aqueous lavas in, 236. Campbell, Mr., - on the migration of quaggas in South Africa, 95. Camper, on the gradation in intellect as shown by the facial angle, 60. Cannon inclo~ed in calcareous rock taken up from the delta of the Rhone, 2G2. -- account of one taken up near the Downs, 2G2. Canoes fnll of men and women drifted to great distances, 119. -- eight found in draining Martin Meer, Lancashire, 260. --several found in Loch Doon, 261. Cape Langaness, drift-wood., abundant at, 244. Carcasses of camels in dl'ift-sand, 235. Caryophyllia, coral fot·med by the genus, 284. Caspian, on the level of the, 163. Caspian and Black Sea formerly con:- nected by straits, 100. Castle, 1\Ir., on the ravages of ants in Grenada, 137. Catalonia, devastation caused by torrents in, 19!). Catania, part of the town of overflowed by lava, 236. -- tools discovered in digging a well at, 259. Catastrophes, remarks on general, 161. Caterpillars, ravages caused by some kinds, 136. Catodon, Ray's account of a large one stranded in Holland, 278. -- a herd of them st1·anded in Orkney, 278. Caverns, organic remains in, may, in some cases, have fallen through fissures, 221. Caves, organic remains in, 219. --preserved by sediment introduced by land-floods, 221. --alternations of sediment and sta. lagmite in some, 222. --Dr. Buckland on human remains in, 223, 227. --marine and terrestrial shells of eatable species found in, 224. Cayes, works of art found at a depth of twenty feet at, 259. Central India, buried cities in, 237. Ceramiqne, account of the formation termed, 233. Cetacea, their geographical range, 91. -- migl·ations of the, 99. --identity of those found in the l\feditert'anean and Caspian Seas, 99. -- imbedding of their remains in recent strata, 278. --often stranded on low shores during storms, 278. -- their remains should be more frequent in marine alluvium than those of land quadrupeds, 279. Chagos isles, their linear direction, 286. --openings into them in the opposite direction to the prevailing wind, 2!)3. Chalk of the north and south downs elevated after the commencement of the tertiary era, 305. Chama gigas, time which it requires to attain its full growth, 287. --found in the Pacific completely overgrown by coral, 287. Chamisso, M., on the formation of coral islands, 284. Channel into the lagoons of coral islands, how formed, 292. Chara hispida, its structure described, see wood-cuts, No.2 and 3, 273, 274. Charm, fos ilized in the lakes of Forfarshire, 273. Chockier, three alterations of stalagmite and alluvium in a cave at, 222. Christo!, M. de, on human remains, &c. in caves, with extinct quadrupeds, 224. Climate, its influence on the distribution of plants, 68. -- effect of alterations in, on the distrilmtion of species, 169. --its influence in causing one species to give way before another, 172. ---influence of vegetation on, 200. -- on the alteration which changes in physical geography may have caused in, 308. Coal, formation of, at the mouths of the Mackenzie, 242. Coiron, land shells in breccia at, 220. INDEX. 816 Cole brooke, Major R. H., on the formation of new islands in the Ganges, 203. C~lumell~, ?n the breeding of elephants 1n captiVIty, 46. Conception, changes of level caused by earthquakes at, 265. Cones formed on Etna in 1819 and 1811 (see frontispiece), 304. Conservative influence of vegetation 198. ' Cook, Captain, on the diffusion of nutmeg seeds by pigeons, 80. --. on the drifting of canoes to gt·eat dtstances, 119. Cook, Captain S. E., examined Brittany with the author, 306 .. Coral, rate of the growth of, in the Pacific, 287. --its growth probably varies according to the sites of mineral springs,287. --found between two lava currents in the West Indies, 294. Coral animals, their action compared to plants which generate peat, 283. -- Ml\1. Quoy and Guimat·d on the depth at which they live, 286. Coral islands, formation of, 284. --linear direction of, see wood-cut No.4, 286. . -- origin of the form of, 288. -- two sections explaining theh· form, see diagrams Nos. 6 and 7, 290. -- many probably the c1·ests of submarine volcanos. 290. --their windward side higher and more perfect than the other, 293. Coral reefs, formation of, 283. --great beds of oysters, &c., found on, in the Pacific, 283. --genera of zoophytes by which they are constructed, 284. --their extent, 285, 295, 298. -- linear direction of, 286. --rapidity of the growth of, 287. · -- the most extensive formation now in progress, 298. Comwall, ruins of buildings found in the drift-sand of, 235. Corse, 1\fr., on the habits, &c. of the elephant, 4G. Cowslip, Linnreus on the varieties of the, 34. Crantz, on the drift-wood of the North Sea, 244. Creation, supposed centres, or foci, of 126. Crocodile tnkcn in the Rhone, 1 04. Crocodile!~ imbedded by a river inundation in Java, 246. Currents, distributiou of drift-timber by, 245. Curtis, Mr., on the ravages caused by aphides, 13G. Curtis, Mr. John, on the power of the tipulm to cross the sea, 116. --on insects in marl, 245. Cutch, effects of the earthquake of, in 1819,265. Cuvier on the variability in the same species, 25. --on the varieties of the dog, 27. --on identity of Egyptian mummies with living species, 30. -- on the migrations of the Spring. bok, !}5. --- on the extinction of the Dodo, 151. -- on the durability of the bones of men, 258. Cuviet·, M. F., on the aptitude of some animals to domestication, 38. --on the influence of domestication 41. ' Cypris found completely fossilized in Scotch mad lakes, 275. -- not uncommon in ponds in England, 275. Dangerfield, Captain F., on buried cities in Central India, 238. Daubeney, Dr., his discovery of nitrogen in mineral springs, 189. Davy, ~ir H., on the occul'l'ence of gypsum m peat, 210. -- his objection to the theory of the gradual civilization of man, 117. -- on the perishable nature of the works of man, 271. Davy, Dr., on the changes which a helmet taken np from the sea near Corfu had undergone, 2G3. Decandolle, his opinion respecting hybrid plants, 56. --on the distl'ibution of plants, G8, 71. -- on the agency of man in the dis-persion of plants, 82. --on the causes of stations of plants, 131. --on the baniers which separate distinct botanical provinces, 177. Decandolle, M. Alph., on the number of botanical provinces, 71. Deet·, their powers of swimming, 92. --formerly veq abundant in Scotland, 149. -- almndance of their remaina in the Scotch marl lakes, 251. Deguer on remains of ships, &c., in the Dutch peat mosses, 210. · Degt·adation of land, caused by rain l!.l9. ' De la Beche, l\I ., on the action of rain in the tropics, 200. |