x CONTENTS. 



between Miocene and Eocene strata — Relations of the Gres de Fontainebleau to 

 the Faluns and to the Calcaire Grossier — Lower Miocene strata of Central 

 France — Lacustrine strata of Auvergne — Indusial limestone — Fossil mammalia 

 of the Limagne d' Auvergne — Freshwater strata of the Cantal — Its resemblance 

 in some places to white chalk with flints — Proofs of gradual deposition— Miocene 

 strata of Bordeaux and South of France — Upper Miocene strata of Gers — 

 Dryopithecus — Belgian and British Miocene formations — Edeghem beds near 

 Antwerp — Diest sands of Belgium and contemporaneous iron-sands of North 

 Downs — Upper Miocene beds of Belgium— Bolderberg — Lower Miocene strata 

 of Kleyn Spawen — Hempstead beds, Isle of Wight — Bovey Tracey Lignites 

 in Devonshire — Isle of Mull Leaf-beds — Miocene formations of Germany — 

 Mayence basin — Upper Miocene beds of Vienna basin — Lower Miocene of 

 Croatia — Fossil Lepidoptera — Oligocene strata of Professor Beyrich — Miocene 

 strata of Italy, ....... page 212 



Chapter XV. — Miocene Formations, continued. 



Miocene Strata of Switzerland — Upper Miocene beds of (Eningen — Importance of 

 Fossil Plants — Heer's work on the Swiss Miocene flora — Plants and insects of 

 ffiningen imbedded in different seasons — Fossil fruits and flowers, as well as 

 leaves — Middle or Marine Molasse of Switzerland — Lower Molasse, or Lower 

 Miocene — Dense conglomerates and proofs of subsidence — Fossil plants of 

 Lower Miocene period more tropical — Preponderance of arborescent species — 

 Supposed discordance in relative numbers of living species of plants and shells 

 in Upper Miocene formations — Theory of a Miocene Atlantis — "Whether the 

 American plants abounding in the Miocene of Europe migrated by a westerly 

 or an easterly route — Objections derived from depth and width of the Atlantic — 

 Arguments in favor of a Trans-Asiatic migration — Miocene fossils of Oregon — 

 Agreement of Miocene corals of the West Indies and Europe opposed to the 

 theory of an Atlantic Continent — Upper Miocene formations of India — Sub- 

 Himalayan or Siwalik Hills — Older Pliocene and Miocene formations in the 

 United States of America, ------- 248 



Chapter XVI. — Eocene Formations. 



Upper Eocene strata of England — Fluvio-marine series in the Isle of Wight and 

 Hampshire — Successive groups of Eocene mammalia — Boundary-line between 

 Lower Miocene and Eocene — Fossils of Barton Clay — British Middle Eocene — 

 Shells, nummulites, fishes, and reptiles of the Bagshot and Bracklesham beds — 

 Vegetation of Middle Eocene period — Lower Eocene strata of England — Fossil 

 plants and shells of the, London Clay proper — Strata of Kyson in Suffolk — Plas- 

 tic clays and sands — Thanet sands — Eocene formations of France — Gypseous 

 series of Montmartre and extinct quadrupeds — Fossil footprints — Calcaire gros- 

 sier — Miliolites — Lower Eocene in France — Nummulitic formations of Europe, 

 Africa, and Asia —Their wide extent — Referable to the Middle Eocene period — 

 Eocene strata in the United States — Section at Claiborne, Alabama — Colossal 

 cetacean — Orbitoidal limestone — Burr stone, - - - - 280 



Chapter XVII. — Cretaceous Group. 



Lapse of time between the Cretaceous and Eocene periods — Whether certain forma- 

 tions in Belgium and France are of intermediate age — Pisolitic limestone — Divis- 

 ions of the Cretaceous series in North- Western Europe — Maestricht beds — Chalk 

 of Faxoe — White chalk — Its geographical extent and origin — Formed in an open 

 and deep sea — How far derived from shells and corals — A similar rock now in 

 progress in the depths of the Atlantic made up of Globigerinac — Origin of Flint 



