LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



TLATES. 



Facing page. 



Pl. i. Railroad monument at Bordentown, New Jersey 128 



ii. Bronze tablet on the railroad monument at Bordentown, New Jersey 128 



m. Diagram showing arrangement of cases in Department of Geology, June 30, 1832. 217 



iv. Tools used by Japanese woodcutters 222 



v. Tools used by Japanese wood cutters 222 



vi. Japanese wood-cutter at work 221 



vil. Tools and appliances used by Japanese wood-cut printers 230 



viii. Tools and appliances used by Japanese wood cut printers 230 



ix. A. Japanese wood cut printer at work 230 



x. Baren and its parts 230 



XI. Method of using Baren 232 



xii. Method of using Baren 232 



xin. Registering 232 



XIV. Table showing the time range of certain kinds of animals and plants 303 



xv. Octopus, Octopus vulgaris 388 



XVI. Common squid, Sepia officinalis, rf 'jg8 



xvii. Histioteuthis bonelliana 388 



XVIII. AnnelidsT 



Fig. 1. Polynoe leucohyba. 



2. Gastrolepidia clavigera 388 



xix. A Marine worm, Boncllia viridis 388 



xx. Skate, Jiaia crinacea 394 



xxi. Shark, Carcharhinut obscurus, and Remora, Echeneis uai'crats 30G 



xxu. Nurse shark, Ginylymostoma cirratum 396 



XXlll. Turhot, Rhombus maximus 396 



xxiv. Fig. 1. Parrot-fish, Searus sp.? 



2. Common pompano, Traehi/notus carolin us 398 



xxv. Fig. 1. Mirror carp, Cyprinus carpio. 



2. Buffalo- fish, Ictiobus uruB 400 



xxvi. The Mudfish, Amia calva 400 



xxvii. Common garter snake, Eutcenia sii talis 402 



XXVIII. Rattlesnake, Crotalus adamantcus 402 



xxix. Ancistrodon piscivorus 4114 



xxix la). Monitor gouLdi 404 



xxx. Sistrurus miliarias 41)4 



xxxi. Bull frog ! 404 



xxxii. Soft-shelled turtle, Atpidonectesferox, ad did 



xxx 111. Box tortoise, Cist ado clausa 406 



xxxiv. Gopher, Gopherus ajassizi 406 



xxxv. Tupinambis teyuixin 406 



xxxvi. Old and improved methods of mounting a penguin 406 



xxxvil. Fig. 1. The Great Auk, Plautus impennis. 



2. The Great Auk, Pla utus impennis 406 



xxxvm. Ring-billed gull, Larus occidentalis, juv 408 



xxxjx. Swallow-tailed gull, Creagrus furcatus 408 



xl. Black ducks and young, A nas obscu ra 408 



XLI. Method of mounting diuruuli»a^<y;w, einp.oved in the British Museum 410 



XIII 



