mestone, 733.

Keyserling, Count, on lowland of Siberia, 84.

Kincardineshire, village in, washed away by sea, 302.

King, Captain P., on humming birds in Tierra del Fuego, 97, 643.
----, on currents in Straits of Magellan, 293.
----, on coral reefs, 788.

King, Mr., on cattle lost in bogs in Ireland, 723.
----, on submerged cannon, 759.

Kinnordy, Loch of, insects in marl in, 748.
----, canoe in peat of, 759.

Kirby, Rev. Mr., on insects, 606, 655, 673, 674.

Kirwan, his geological Essays, 56.
----, on connection of geology and religion, 56.

Knight, Mr., on varieties of fruit trees, 589.

Konig, Mr., on Guadaloupe human skeleton, 757.
----, on fossils from Melville Island, 88.

Koran, cosmogony of the, 17.

Kotzebue on drifted canoe, 662.

Kunker, concretionary limestone of Ganges, 280.

Kurile Isles, active volcanoes in, 353.

L.

Labrador, drift-timber of, 745.
----, rocks drifted by ice on coast of, 230.

Laccadive Islands, 782.

Lagoons, or salt lakes, in delta of Rhone, 259.
----, of coral islands, 780.

Lagullas current, 95.

Lagunes on coast of Adriatic, 256.

Lake Erie. _See_ Erie, Lake.
----, of Geneva. _See_ Geneva, Lake of.
----, Maeler, 524, 528.
----, Superior. _See_ Superior, Lake.

Lakes, filling up of 252.
----, formation of; in basin of Mississippi, 466, 269.
----, formed by earthquakes, 466, 481, 505.
----, crescent-shaped, in plain of Mississippi, 266.
----, Canadian, strata forming in, 768.

Lamarck, his definition of species, 567.
----, on transmutation of species, 567, 587, 696, 699.
----, on conversion of orang into man, 575.
----, on numbers of polyps, 706.

Lancashire, fossil canoes in, 759.

Lancerote, eruptions in, 436, 439.

Land, quantity of, in northern and southern hemispheres, 102, 109, 110.
----, upraised at successive periods, 118, 119.
----, proofs of existence of, at all periods, 188.
----, proportion of sea and, 124.
----, elevation of, how caused, 171, 453, 457, 459, 562.

Landslips, 319, 321, 485, 505.
----, imbedding of organic remains by, 732.

Languedoc, deposits on coast of, 260.

Laplace on change in the earth's axis, 32.
----, on mean depth of Atlantic and Pacific, 104.
----, on no contraction of globe, 129.
----, on mean density of the earth, 536.

Lapland, why milder than Greenland, 94.
----, migrations of animal