s allied to
them; so called because, while they are the habitation of animals,
they are fixed to the ground, and have the form of plants. _Etym._,
[Greek: zoon], _zoon_, animal, and [Greek: phyton], _phyton_, plant.

INDEX.

A.

Abich, M., on eruption of Vesuvius in 1834, 378, 380, 550.

Abo, 522, 523.

Acosta cited, 499, 502.

Adams, Mr., on fossil elephant, 80.

Adanson on age of the baobab tree, 422.

Addison on Burnet's theory, 32.

Adige, embankment of the, 255.
----, delta of the, 257.

Adour, R., new passage formed by, 338.

Adria, formerly a seaport, 256.

Adriatic, deposits in, 36, 88, 71, 257, 774.

AEgean Sea, Prof. E. Forbes dredging in, 649.

Africa, fossil shells of, mentioned by ancients, 15.
----, indigenous quadrupeds of, 82.
----, heat radiated by, 94.
----, currents on coast of, 292, 342.
----, drift sands of deserts, 726.
----, devastations of locusts in, 674.
----, strata forming off tropical coast of, 774.
----, desert of its area, 694.

Agassiz, M., on fish of coal formation, 136.
----, on abrupt transition from one fossil fauna to another, 184.
----, on motion, &c., of glaciers, 224, 226.

Agricola on fossil remains, 21.

Airthrey, fossil whale found at, 771.

Alabama, coal plants, 88.

Alaska, volcanoes in, 352.

Aldborough, incursions of sea at, 311.

Alderney, race of, 293.

Aleutian Isles, eruptions, &c., in, 352, 468.

Alexandria, temple of Serapis at, 512.

Algae, known provinces of, 617.

Allan, Dr., on coral in Madagascar, 778.

Alloa, whale cast ashore at, 771.

Alluvium, imbedding of organic remains in, 780.
----, volcanic, 386.
----, stalagmite, alternating with, in caves, 736.

Alps, Saussure on the, 45.
----, tertiary rocks of the, 119.
----, greatly raised during tertiary epoch, 124.
----, signs of lateral pressure in the, 171.

Altered rocks, 177.

Amazon, R., land formed by its deposits, 342.
----, animals floated down on drift-wood by, 640.

America, its coast undermined, 331.
----, recent strata in lakes of, 254, 768.
----, specific distinctness of animals of, 612, 629.
----, domesticated animals run wild in, 585, 685.
----, N., continuous beds of coal in, 115.
----, N., deposit "New red" like English, 158.
----, N. and S., mammiferous fauna of, 633.

Ammonia in lavas, 550.

Amonoosuck, flood in