HOuanTON ON aeistotle's history of animals. 149 



dispositions and modes of life we intend to speak hereafter with 

 more precision.* 



XVI. — The Atlantis Hypothesis in its botanical aspect. — 



By Professor Oliver. 



A PEBirsAL, some few months ago, of certain passages in Professor 

 Heer's important essay on the climate and vegetation of the Tertiary 

 period,t induced me to investigate rather carefully the relations 

 between the Tertiary and some existing Floras, especially with refer- 

 ence to the hypothesis advanced by Professors Heer and Unger, that 

 during the Miocene period there existed an Atlantic junction between 



* Although English Naturalists appear to have given little attention to the study 

 of Aristotle and the Natural History of the ancients generally, the suhject has not 

 escaped the notice of our Gennan friends ; on the contrary, careful enquiry would 

 no doubt disclose much valuable pertinent matter. There are several published 

 treatises which bear on the subject of Aristotle's Zoological Works, the titles of some 

 of which are here added, though we confess we have only been able to consult a 

 very few of them. 



Beckmann, J., De Mstoina naturali veterum lihcllus. Petrop. et Gotting. 1766. 

 Gallisch, Fr. And., de Arhfotele rei naturalis scriptore. Lips. 1776. 

 Schneider, J. G., Icthjolootfe Veten/m Specimhia. Franc, ad Viad. 1782. 

 Probcn von der Fischkunde der Alton, in Leipz. Mag. Jalirg. 1783, p. 62. 



Petri Artedi SijiionijmJa Piscium Greeca et Latiiia emendafa, ^-c. Lips. 1789. 



Ucber die von Aristoteles lieifchrichencn Gaftungen uiid Arten von Krebsen. 



Rerl. Mag. 1807, p. 163.— Z^/*, 1818, iv. p. 1453. 

 Billcrbeck, H. L. Jul. De Strigibus ah Aristotele, Plinio, cateraque Scriptorum 



Veterum grcge Commemorafis. Hildeshem. 1809. 

 Kohlcr, J. Herm Aq, Aristotele>t, de Molluscis Cephalopodibiis (■Trepl rwi> na\aKiu)i'^ 



Comment. Rig. 1821. 

 Werber, W. J. A., Arhtoteles Verdien.tt um die wissenschnffUche Bcarheitung der 



Zoologie und. scin Eitijlui<s bis auj'n?i sere zeit. Isis, 1822, p. 476—492. 

 Titze, F. N. Ueber die nissenschaftliche Behandlungsart der Naturkunde ilber- 



liaupt, vorziiglich aber der Thierkunde : Griech. und Deutsch, niit Anmerk. 



Leipz. 1823. 

 Wiegman, A. F. A., Observationes Zoologicce Criticae in Aristotelis Historiam Ani- 



vialium. Lips. 1826. Isis, 1827, xii. p. 1078. 

 Muller, J. Ueber den glatten Hai des Aristotelcs und iiber die Verseliiedenlieitcn 



nnter den Uaijischen u. Roclien in der Entwicliel. des Eies. Bcrl. 1842. 

 Franzius, A. von., Aristofeles' Vier Biicher die Theile der Thicre. Griechisch und 



Deutsch undmit Sacherhliirenden Anmerkungen. 1853. 

 Meyer, J. B., Dissertatio de Principiis Aristotelis in distrihutione animalium 



adhibliis. Berol. 1854. 

 Ariatoteles Thierhunde ; eiji Beitrag zur Gescldchte der Zoologie, Plnjsiologie 



und alten Philosophie. Berl. 1855. 

 Rose, Valentin., De Aristotelis librorum ordine et auctoritate Conimcntatio. Bcrol. 



1854. 

 Thiol, H. De Zoologicnrv^n Aristotelis lihrornm ordine ac di.\tribufione, imprimis 



de librorum Tripi ?ojwv [lopiiov prima. (Ex progran). gyninas. Elisabet. 1855, 



Edito rcpetitum.) Vratislaviaj, Gosohorsky, 1855. 

 Lenz, H. O., Zoologie der altcn Grieclwn und Bonier, deulscJt, in Ausziigen (ins deren 



SchriJ'ten, nebst Anmerkungen. Gotha, 1856. 

 t " Rccherches sur le Climat et la Vegetation duPavs Tertiare," 18G1. 



