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wood, with magnolias, alders, and others." — James D. 

 Dana, LL.D. : The Geological Story briefly Told, page 

 200. 



" At the same time (the miocene), or perhaps some- 

 what earlier, a temperate climate extended into the 

 arctic regions, and allowed a magnificent vegetation 

 of shrubs and forest trees, some of them evergreen, 

 to flourish within twelve degrees of the Pole." — Al- 

 fred RussEL Wallace : Distribution of Animals, vol. i., 

 page 41. 



"Coal-beds of carboniferous age are extensively 

 developed in the arctic regions." — James Croll : Cli- 

 mate and Time, page 198. 



" The woolly rhinoceros, on the other hand, may be 

 viewed as a northern form, since it is met with in 

 vast abundance in the arctic regions of Siberia as well 

 as in Europe, and has not been found south of the 

 Alps and Pyrenees." — W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. : Cave Hunting, page 400. 



" That an equable condition of climate extended 

 to near the North Pole is proved by the fact that in 

 the arctic regions vast masses of carboniferous lime- 

 stone, having all the character of the mountain lime- 

 stone of England, have been found." — James Croll : 

 Climate and Time, page 297. 



