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I need not now allude to the evidence we have for glacial action 

 on Arthur's Seat. The groovings and markings above Sampson's 

 Kibs and elsewhere, the number of greenstone and sandstone boul- 

 ders scattered up and down in various parts of the hill, the " crag 

 and tail" contour of the hill, and the character of the drift accumu- 

 lated on the east side, are all familiar to the Edinburgh student of 

 geology, and point to a time when, after remaining for a long period 

 locked in ice, Arthur's Seat sank far below the sea-level, and when 

 ice-borne blocks from the Highlands were dropt on the slopes of the 

 Pentlands. 



Explanation of Plate. 



Fig.W The Lower Carboniferous strata and interbedded traps of Arthur's Seat up- 

 heaved by the intrusive traps. 



Fig. 2. The Lower Carboniferous strata and older traps of Arthur's Seat of the marine 

 denudation. 



Fig./. Submarine volcanic cone during the Tertiary (?) epoch, ejecting ash-scoriee, 

 etc., and producing the later Igneous rocks of Arthur's Seat. The cone of coarse vol- 

 canic ash and conglomerate, a. Basalt of summit ; b. Basalt and Felstone of Lion's 

 Haunch- 

 Fig. |. Present appearance of Arthur's Seat after glacial action. 

 a Volcanic Ash, Trap, etc. * Trap, etc. c Carboniferous strata. 



A LIST OE TYPICAL AND OTHER EIGUKED SPECI- 

 MENS OE EOSSIL VERTEBKATA IN THE BRITISH 

 MUSEUM. 



(This list does not profess to give the title of every work in which 

 the figures are reproduced or copied, but only of those in which they 

 first appeared, or of such as may be used for general reference.) 



I. MAMMALIA. 



Human Skeleton. — Post- Tertiary, Guadaloupe. — Phil. Trans. 1814, p. 107, pi. 3. 

 Palceospalax magnus (lower jaw) .—Pleistocene, Freshwater, Bacton. Norfolk. — 



Owen, Brit. Foss. Mam. 1846, p. 25, f. 12. 

 Canis fVulpesJ vulgaris, Brisson. — Cavern, Kent's Hole, Torquay. — Owen, Brit. 



Foss. Mam. p. 134, f. 51, 53. 

 Galecynus (Eningensis, Owen. — Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1846, vol. iii. p. 55, f. 



1, 3, 5 ; {Canis Vulpes, Murch. and Mant.), Trans. Geol. Soc. 



1830, vol. iii. p. 277, pi. 33, 34, f. 1-3 ; (Canis palustris), 



Mey., Fauna der Vorwelt, Oeningen, 1845, p. 4, pi. 1. 

 Mustela (PlesictesJ Croizeti, Pomel (lower jaw). — Miocene, St. Gerand-le-Puy. — 



Bull. Soc. Geol. Pranc. 1847, tome iv. ser. 2, p. 385, pi. 4, f. 4. 

 (Plesiogale) angustifrons, Pomel. — Miocene, St. Gerand-le-Puy. — Bull. 



Soc. Geol. Franc. 1847, tome iv. ser. 2, p. 385, pi. 4, f. 3 j Pictet, 



Paleontologie, 2nd edit. 1853-7, pi. 4, f. 7. 

 Putorius ermineus, Linn. — Cavern, Kent's Hole, Torquay. — Owen, Brit. Foss. 



Mam. p. 116, f. 40-42. 

 Hycena spelcea, Goldfuss (lower jaw). — Cavern, Gailenreuth. — Cuvier, Oss. Poss. 



edit. 1836, pi. 192, f. 9. 



spelcea (diseased skull). — Cavern, Muggendorf. — Owen, Brit. Foss. Mam. 



p. 154, f. 59. 



