XXIV CONTENTS. 



LIST OF PLATES. 



The Frontispiece exhibits a vertical section of the Bone-Caves 

 of Gaylenreuth, in Franconia. 



Plate I. is a plan shewing tfye relative position of the Tertiary 

 Mineral Formations around Paris. 



II. is illustrative of the Succession of the Secondary For- 

 mations, and of the Distribution of Petrifactions. 



II a. Extraordinary Fossil Animal named Pterodactylus 

 longirostrus, found near Aichstedt, in Germany. 



III. Figure of an Ibis in a Temple in Upper Egypt. 



IV. Skeleton of an Ibis from a Mummy found at Thebes. 

 V. Numenius Ibis, supposed true Ibis of the Egyptians. 



VI. Fossil Human Skeleton found in Guadaloupe. 



VII. Cervus megaceros, Irish Elk in the Museum of the 

 Royal Dublin Society. 



VIII. Fig. 1. Head and Horn of the Fossil Irish Elk. It 

 represents a larger view of the head, in which 

 the different markings are delineated, and the ex- 

 pansion of the horns shewn in a front view. In this 

 is also seen the peculiar forked appearance of the 

 sur-antler. 



Fig. 2. The portion of cast horn mentioned at p. 501, 

 having the smooth convex surface at the root. 



Fig. 3. An internal and external view of the perforated 

 rib, described in p. 504. 



IX. Cervus megaceros, Irish or Isle of Man Elk in the 

 Royal Museum of the University of Edinburgh. 



