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Progression, doctrine of, in Geology,

54.

Pterichthys, species found in Dura Den,
224-6.

Quaternary accumulations, their ar-
rangement, 71.

Railway-cuttings, importance of, to
Geology, 179.

RAINPRINTS, SUN-CRACKS, FOOTPRINTS,
AND BURROWS, 244-252.
Rainprints, their origin and character-
istics, 244.

Raised-beach lines, study of, 135.

RAISED BEACHES

FORESTS, 253-264.

AND SUBMARINE

Scientific aspects of Geology, 20.
Scolites, or fossil worm-burrows, 251.
Scottish geologists of nineteenth cen-
tury, 185-6.

SCOTTISH GEOLOGY ITS PROOFS AND
PROBLEMS, 185-202.

Sea-shore, attractions of, 127.
Sea-shore, the, its geological sections,

136.

Sea-water, composition of, 151.
Seals, sub-fossil, in brick-clays, 178.
Shell-mounds discovered in Scotland,

198.

Silurian rocks of southern Scotland,
188.

Sinter, calcareous and silicious, origin
of, 118.

Raised beaches and submarine forests Slaty and schistose mountains, scen-

in Scotland, 197.

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ery of, 275.

Smith of Jordanhill on boulders, 156.
SOILS AND SUBSOILS, THEIR NATURE
AND ORIGIN, 235-243.

Soils, fertilisation of, by admixture,

242.

Soils, gradual formation of, 236-241.
South America, raised beaches of,
255.

Species in paleontology erroneously
founded, 268.

SPECIES-MAKING AND NOMENCLATURE,
265-271.

Species of fossil plants, difficulty in
determining, 267.

SPLIT OR FRACTURED BOULDERS, 154-
158.

SPRINGS IN THEIR GEOLOGICAL ASPECTS,
146-153.

Springs, transformation of rock-matter
by, 153.

Stacks and Needles, formation of, 133.
St Andrews shore sections, 131.
Subsoils, their nature and origin, 241.
Sun-cracks, their nature and origin,

245.

Superficial accumulations, antiquity of,

172.

Superficial accumulations, mapping of,
168-173.

Superficial accumulations, their ar
rangement, 71.

Surface configuration, its varied causes,
69.

Surface diversity, interesting study of,

182.

Systemal arrangements of strata, pro-
visional, 65.

Technical education, its importance
and claims, 215.
Tennyson, quoted, 135.

Tertiary system, as developed in Scot-
land, 197.

Texture and structure of rocks, 124.
Thackeray, anecdote of, 178.

THE NATURAL SCIENCES-THEIR PLACE
IN EDUCATION, 203-218.

OF GEOLOGICAL

EVI-

THE NATURE
DENCE, 32-47.
Theological opposition to Geology, 112.
Thought, modern and olden, contrast-
ed, 106.

Tracks of worms and crustacea, fossil,
249.

Trap-rocks, intrusive and contempor-
aneous, 199.

Travellers, importance of Geology to,
30, 100.

Triassic rocks of Devonshire, 131.
Tufa, calcareous and siliceous, origin
of, 118.

Verstegan's Restitution of Decayed
Intelligence, 283.

Volcanic regions, scenery of, 274.
Von Wrangell on Siberia, quoted,
259.

Waste and reconstruction of earth's
crust, 12.

Waterfalls, frequent causes of, 275.
Water, incessant circulation of, 147.
Water, its geological operations and
results, 148.

Water, percolation of, in the earth's
crust, 149.

Water, solvent power of, 149.

Uniformity and continuity in nature, Weathering of rock-surfaces, 125.

33.

UNIFORMITY AND PROGRESSION, 48-

56.

Well-eyes, or quagmires, nature of,
139.

White of Selborne, quoted, 239.

Uniformity as opposed to cataclysm, Worms, and worm-casts in soils, 239.

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