CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Preliminary Remarks on the Subjects treated of in this "Work Definition of 

 the Terms Recent, Post-Pliocene, and Post-Tertiary Tabular View of the 

 entire Series of Fossiliferous Strata ,-/.<* . . . PAGE 1 



CHAPTER II. 



RECENT PERIOD DANISH PEAT AND SHELL MOUNDS SWISS LAKE 



DWELLINGS. 



Works of Art in Danish Peat-Mosses Remains of three Periods of Vegetation 

 in the Peat Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron Shell-Mounds or ancient 

 Refuse-Heaps of the Danish Islands Change in geographical Distribution 

 of Marine Mollusca since their Origin Embedded Remains of Mammalia 

 of recent Species Human Skulls of the same Period Swiss LaEe-Dwel- 

 lings built on Piles Stone and Bronze Implements found in them Fossil 

 Cereals and other Plants Remains of Mammalia, wild and domesticated 

 No extinct Species Chronological Computations of the Date of the Bronze 

 and Stone Periods in Switzerland Lake-Dwellings, or artificial Islands 

 called ' Crannoges,' in Ireland ./->.. . ' v '. 8 



CHAPTER III. 

 FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AND WORKS OF ART OF THE RECENT PERIOD. 



Delta and Alluvial Plain of the Nile Burnt Bricks in Egypt before the Roman 

 Era Borings in 1851-54 Ancient Mounds of the Valley of the Ohio 

 Their Antiquity Sepulchral Mound at Santos in Brazil Delta of the 

 Mississippi Ancient Human Remains in Coral Reefs of Florida Changes in 

 Physical Geography in the Human Period Buried Canoes in marine Strata 

 near Glasgow Upheaval since the Roman Occupation of the Shores of the 

 Firth of Forth Fossil Whales near Stirling Upraised marine Strata of 

 Sweden on Shores of the Baltic and the Ocean Attempts to compute their 

 Age. v 33 



