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DEDICATION, p. V. 
PREFATORY NoTE TO THE SEcoND EpITION, Vii. 
PREFACE TO THE First EDITION, ix. 
ADDRESS TO THE READER, Xi. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS, XV. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES, xix. 
List or LignoGRAPHS IN Vou. I., xxxi. 
INTRODUCTION, 1. 
PRELIMINARY REMARKS ;—On the Plan of the Work and the Arrangement and 
Subdivision of the subjects it embraces, 8. Works of Reference, 8. Explana- 
tion of Terms, 11. List of subjects, 12. 
PART I.—STRATIGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS, AND THE NATURE OF 
Fossits, 15. 
CuAptER I.—On the Nature and Arrangement of the British Strata and their 
Fossils, 15. 
Cuaprer II.—Synopsis of the British Strata, 23. Chronological Arrangement of 
the British Formations; Modern or Human Epoch; Post-pliocene, 23. Tertiary 
Epochs, 24. Secondary Epochs, 25. Palzozoic Epochs, 30. Hypogene Rocks, 
34. Volcanic Rocks, 35. 
CuaAptTeR III.—On the Nature of Fossils or Organic Remains, 37. Incrustations, 
38. Silicification, 40. Animal Remains, 43. Hints for Collecting Fossil 
Bones, 45, 
PART II.—Fossit Borany, 51. 
Cuaprer IV.—Fossil Botany, 51. Fossil Vegetables, 51. On the investigation of 
the Fossil Remains of Vegetables, 54. Endogenous Stems, 56. Exogenous 
Stems, 56. Structure of Conifere, 57. Botanical principles, 58. Exogens, 59. 
Endogens, 59. Investigation of Fossil Stems, 61. Fossil Leaves, 64. On the 
Microscopical Examination of Fossil Vegetables, 65. Mode of preparing slices 
of Fossil Wood, 66. 
