X CONTENTS. 



Chapter VI. — The Carbonifebous Age. 



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Perfection of Palseozoic Life. — Carboniferous Geography. 

 — Colours of Sediments. — Vegetation. — Origin of Coal. 

 — Land Life. — Reptiles, Land Snails, Millipedes, etc. 

 — Oceanic Life . 109 



Chapter VII. — The Permian Age. 



Movements of the Land. — Plication of the Crust. — Che- 

 mical Conditions of Dolomite, etc. — Geographical 

 Eesults of Permian Movements. — Life of the Period. 

 — Summary of Palaeozoic History .... 160 



Chapter VIII. — The Mesozoic Ages. 



Characters of the Trias. — Summary of Changes in the 

 Triassic and Cretaceous Periods. — Changes of the 

 Continental Plateaus. — Relative Duration of the 

 Palaeozoic and Mesozoic. — Mesozoic Forests. — Land 

 Animals. — The reign of Reptiles. — Early Mammals 

 and Birds 188 



Chapter IX. — The Mesozoic Ages — {continued). 



Animals of the Sea. — Great Sea Lizards, Fishes, Cephalo- 

 pods, etc. — Chalk and its History. — Tabular View of 

 the Mesozoic Ages . . , , . . .211 



Chapter X.— The Neozoic Ages. 



Physical Changes at the end of Mesozoic. — Subdivisions 

 of the Neozoic. — Great Eocene Seas. — Land Animals 

 and Plants. — Life of the Miocene. — Reign of Mammals 235 



Chapter XL — The Neozoic Ag^s— (continued). 



Later Vegetation. — The Animals of the Pliocene Period. 

 — Approach of the Glacial Period. — Character of the 

 Post-pliocene or Glacial 258 



