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HARD WICKE \S SCIENCE - G OSSIP. 



The various localities where fossils are to be found in 

 the various formations — from the Carboniferous series 

 to the Miocene, are all noted ; and, as many of them 

 lie within the usual range of the tourist, this book 

 will be all the more welcome to him of geological 

 tastes. The details of the Miocene beds are given at 

 great length, as m c should have expected beforehand, 

 seeing that they attain a greater develoiDment in 



Switzerland than anywhere else, and are there 

 crowded with fossil plants, flower-bearing and cryp- 

 togamous, in hundreds of species, as well as with the 

 remains of insects which were associated with this 

 magnificent flora. To Professor Heer is due the 

 great merit of working out the details of these 

 Miocene fossil plants, and of showing how they were 

 related to genera and species now growing elsewhere. 





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Fig. 72. Moraine in the Canon's Platz in the City of Zurich. (From Heei-'s " Switzerland.") 



Fig. 73. Various Genera of Fossil Hymenoptera, from the Miocene strata of Moudon. (From Heer's" Primeval Switzerland.") 



