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evidence of the Echinodermata Brachiopoda fish &c, &c, and 

 these have decidedly cretaceous affinities. 



The Atlantis. 



As I have so often referred to the lost Continent perhaps it 

 would not be out of place to say a word or two on the subject of 

 the Atlantis. Many of our geological questions are more or less 

 connected with this problem. The evidence on the subject so 

 far as known to us may in part be gleaned from my papers pub- 

 lished during the years from 1866 to the present time and from 

 the works alluded to in those paper. From time to time fresh ac- 

 cessions are made to the evidence. But in the first place I may 

 explain that there are three Altantises : first the mythological 

 one which is the one referred to by Platon in the Timseus ; the 

 physical basis of this is the clouds which appear over the Atlan- 

 tic Ocean at Sunset and which the modern mariner calls cape 

 Flyaway. The second is the theosophical one upon which much 

 ingenious writing has been bestowed, and while the first men- 

 tioned one has a mythological basis this one has a mythical basis. 

 But the third one is the geological Atlantis and this is the one 

 which has been the subject of my inquiries. This Atlantis has a 

 geological basis, that is to say, a basis in what we know of the 

 history of the Earth. 



Among later observations which I have not before referred 

 to are those of Standing in the Transactions of the Zoological 

 Society for 1908. He therein states his belief that American 



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Monkeys and Lemurs were differentiated in an equatorial Con- 

 tinent connecting Africa with South America. He cites several 

 facts in support of this conclusion ; among others he notices that 

 the only other plant belonging to the genus of which the Trav- 

 eller's Tree of Madagascar, so well known to all here, is a mem- 

 ber is that called Phenacospermum a native of Brazil and Guiana. 



