I! 1 TIM- MAMMALIA. 



hivuk otT, for no result, millions of commt 



than that so-called acoident should prevail 



.in the absolute laws of Nature. 



tidry, in a \vry admirable work, 1 has ,u r iv n 

 an account of the main substance and the results 

 of all the pa! pOO-KOOlogioa] inquiries. 



Of even greater importjince to the question 

 of transition- and intermediate forms are the 

 works of Filhol, a youns compatriot of Gaudry's. 

 \\ , refer to his papers on the 'Phosphorites of 

 (^uercy,' - which appeared in lS7h' and Is77 : al>o 

 hi- article on the ' Kos>il Mammals of St. (ierard lo 

 Puy.' and his comprehensive treatise on the 'Fossil 

 Mammals of llon/.on,' which appeared in 1SS-J. 



Phosphorite belongs to the Upper Eocene for- 

 mation of South-western France, deposits of non- 



allised phos|)hated linu>. It is found in cracks 

 and hollows which have heen tilled up from ahove. 

 The deposit, Filhol sa \ -, W88 no douht tlu> result 

 of warm springs, which from time to time e.: 

 extensive inundations, and drowned or sutYoe 



1 (laudry, Les fnchatnemcn:- :.1c animal da 



> gtologiquns. Mann 

 * Filhol. li,\-ii?i\-J;, 



twr ks fossiles gu'on a ri \4ciakment Jcs mam 



A nnalf s df s sciences <i , vii., viii. ; 



/.TaniZe 1 MOW, \ii. 



