TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduotoet letter XI 



Paet I. Palaeontology, by F. B. Meek 1 



Introductory remarks 3 



Descriptions of fossils — Silurian species 17 



Devonian species 25 



Carboniferous species 50 



Triassic species 99 



Jurassic species . 130 



Cretaceous species 140 



Fresh and Brackish-water species . 163 



Tertiary species . 182 



Part II. Paleontology, by James Hall and R. P. Whitfield 198 



General remarks 199 



Fossils of the Potsdam 205 



Lower Silurian .... 232 



Devonian 24G 



Waverly . 251 



Lower Carboniferous 205 



Coal-Measures and Permo- Carboniferous 273 



Triassic 280 



j urassic 284 



Part III. Ornithology, by Eobert Ridgway 303 



Table of contents 305 



Letter op transmission .• : 307 



Description of the route , 309 



Physical features of the Great Basin 313 



Local Avifauna , 316 



Description of camps 328 



General remarks on the Basin Avifauna 377 



Catalogue of species 386 



Biographical section 391 



Index to Part I 645 



Index to Part II 649 



Index to Part III . — 652 



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