CONTENTS 



OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 



Chap. I. Extent of the Province of Geology .... 



II. Consistency of Geological Discoveries with Sacred His 

 tory 



III. Proper subjects of Geological Inquiry . 



IV. Relation of Unstratified to stratified Rocks 

 V. Volcanic Rocks, Basalt, and Trap 



VI. Primary stratified Rocks ..... 



VII. Strata of the Transition Scries 



Remains of Vegetables in the Transition Series 

 VIII. Strata of the Secondary Series 

 IX. Strata of the Tertiary Series .... 

 Mammalia of the Eocene Period 

 Mammalia of the Miocene Period 

 Mammalia of the Pliocene Period 

 X. Relation of the Earth and its Inhabitants to Man 

 XL Supposed cases of Fossil Human Bones 

 XII. General History of Fossil Organic Remains 



XIII. Aggregate of Animal Enjoyment increased, and that of 



Pain diminished by the existence of Carnivorous Races 



XIV. Proofs of Design in the Structure of Fossil Vertebrated 



Animals 



§ I. Fossil Mammaria— Dinotherium 



11. Megatherium 



in. Fossil Saurians . . - 



IV. Ichthyosaurus 



V. Intestinal Structure of Ichthyosaurus and of Fossil Fishes 

 VI. Plesiosaurus 



vn. Mosasaurus, or great Animal of Maestricht . 



VIII. Pterodactyle ■ 



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