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7. LECTURE II 123—191 



1. Introductory. 2. Extinction of Animals. 3. Law of Extinction. 

 4. Animals extirpated by Human Agency. 5. Apteryx of New Zealand. 

 6. Moa of New Zealand. 7. Dodo of the Mauritius. 8. Irish Elk. 

 9. Epoch of Terrestrial Mammalia. 10. Fossil Mammalian Remains. 

 11. Comparative Anatomy. 12. Osteology of the Carnivora. 13. Os- 

 teology of the Herbivora. 14. Dental Organs of the Rodentia. 

 15. General Inferences. 16. Fossil Elephants, &c. 17. Fossil Mam- 

 malia of the valley of the Thames. 18. Fossil Elephants of other parts 

 of England. 19. Extinct Elephant or Mammoth in Ice. 20. Mammoths 

 of the alluvial deposits of Russia. 21. Siberia and Russia in the 

 Mammoth epoch. 22. Mastodon. 23. Mastodons of Ava. 24. Fossil 

 Mammalia of the Sub-Himalayahs. 25. Sub-Himalayah tertiary 

 deposits. 26. Remarkable collocation of Fossil Animals. 27. The 

 Pampas. 28. The Sloth tribe. 29. Megatherium. 30. Mylodon. 

 31. Megalonyx. 32. Glyptodon. 33. Toxodon. 34. Fossil Hippopo- 

 tamus, &c. 35. Dinotherium. 36. Fossil Carnivora in Caverns. 37. Cave 

 of Gaylenreuth. 38. Fbrsterhohle, or Forest-cave. 39. Bone Caverns 

 in England. 40. Diseased Bones found in Caverns. 41. Human Bones 

 in Caverns. 42. Osseous Breccia. 43. The Rock of Gibraltar. 44. 

 Osseous Breccia of Australia. 45. Retrospect. 



LECTURE III 192—292 



1. Introductory. 2. Mineral composition of Rocks. 3. Crystallization. 

 4. Stratification. 5. Displaced Strata. 6. Veins and Faults. 7. 

 Chronological Synopsis of the Strata. 8. Geology of England. 9. 

 Alluvium and Drift of the Modern Epoch. 10. Erratic Boulders. 11. 

 Tertiary Formations. 12. Classification of the Tertiary. 13. Fossil 

 Shells. 14. Lithological Characters of the Tertiary. 15. Subdivisions 

 of the Tertiary System. 16. Pliocene Deposits. 17. Miocene; the 

 Crag. 18. Eocene, or Lower Tertiary. 19. The Paris Basin. 20. The 

 London Basin. 21. The Isle of Sheppey. 22. Bagshot Sand. 23. Phe- 

 nomena of Springs. 24. Artesian Wells. 25. The Hampshire Basin. 

 26. Alum Bay. 27. London Clay of Hampshire. 28. Freshwater 

 Tertiary of the Isle of Wight. 29. Organic Remains of the Eocene 

 Strata. 30. Amber. 31. Zoophytes of the Tertiary. 32. Shells of the 

 Tertiary. 33. Fossil Nautilus. 34. Nummulites. 35. Rotaliae. 36. ' 

 Crustaceans and Fishes. 37. Tertiary Reptiles. 38. Tertiary Birds. 

 39. Fossil Mammalia of Paris. 40. Paloeotheria and Anoplotheria. 

 41. Fossil Monkeys. 42. Tertiary Deposits of Aix. 43. Fossil Insects. 

 44. Fossil Fox of CEningen. 45. Fossil Fishes of Monte Bolca. 16. 

 Tertiary Volcanoes of France. 47. Extinct Volcanoes of Auvergne. 

 48. Crater of the Puy de Come. 49. Mont Dore. 50. Lacustrine Strata 

 of Auvergne. 51. Successive Epochs of Mammalia. 52. Survey of 

 Geological Phenomena. 53. Excavation of Valleys by running Water. 

 54. Extinct Volcanoes of the Rhine. 55. Brown Coal Deposits; the 

 Loess. 56. Tertiary of Europe and North America. 57. Altered 

 Tertiary of the Andes. 58. Saliferous Deposits. 59. Retrospect. 60. 

 Concluding Remarks. 



