TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PtlgC. 



Introductory LETTER XI 



Part I. Palaeontology, by F. 15. Meek 1 



Introductory remarks 3 



Descriptions of fossils — Silurian species 17 



Devonian species 25 



Carboniferous species 50 



Triassic species 99 



.lURASSlC SPECIES 130 



Cretaceous species 140 



Fresh AND Bbackishwatrr SPECIES. 1G3 



Tertiary species 182 



Part II. Palaeontology, by James IIall and R. P. Whitfield . 198 



(Jeneral remarks 199 



Fossils of the Potsdam 205 



Lower Silurian 232 



Devonian 240 



Waverly 251 



Lower Carboniferous 265 



Coal-Measures and PermoCarboniferous 273 



Triassic . . 280 



J uRASsic 284 



Part III. Ornithology, by Kobert Kidgway 303 



Table of contents 305 



Letter of xransmis.sion 307 



Description of the route 309 



Physical features of the Great Basin . 313 



IXICAL Avifaun^e 31G 



Description of camps ... . . 328 



General remarks on the Basin Avifaunae 377 



Catalogue op species 380 



Biographical section 391 



Index TO Paut I 045 



Index to Part II 049 



Index TO Part III . 052 



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