TYPICAL FOSSIL VERTEBRATES IN BllITlSil MUSEUM. 99 
I need not now allude to the evidence we liave for glacial action 
on Arthur's Seat. Tlie 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. 1. 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. 3. Submarine volcanic cone during the Tertiary (?) epoch, ejecting ash-scoriic, 
etc., and producing the later Igneous rocks of Arthur's Seat. The cone of coarse vol- 
canic ash and conglomerate, a. Basalt of summit ; h. Basalt and Felstoue of Lion's 
Haunch. 
Fig. 4. Present appearance of Artliur's Seat after glacial action. 
a Volcanic Ash, Trap, etc. * Trap, etc. c Carboniferous strata. 
A LIST or TYPICAL AND OTHER FIGURED SPECI- 
MENS OF FOSSIL VERTEBRATA IN THE BRITISH 
MUSEUM. 
(This list docs 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. — Po*^- rer^iary, Guadaloupe. — Phil. Trans. 1814, p. 107, pi. 3. 
Palceospalax magnus (lower jaw). — Pleistocene, Freshwater, Bacton, Norfolk. — • 
Owen, Brit. Foss. Mam. 184G, p. 25, f. 12. 
Canis (VulpesJ vulgaris, Brisson. — Cavern, Kent's Ilole, Torquay. — Owen, Brit. 
Foss. Mam. p. 13i, f. 51, 53. 
Oalecynus (Eningensis, Owen. — Quart. Journ. GeoL Soc. 1846, vol. iii. p. 55, f. 
1, 3, 5 ; (Canis J'ulpes, Mui'ch. and Mant.), Trans. Gcol. Soc. 
1830, vol. iii. p. 277, pi. 33, 34, f. 1-3 ; (Canis palicstris), 
Mey., Fauna clcr Vorwelt, Oeuingeu, 1845, p. 4, pi. 1. 
Mustela (PlesictesJ Croizeti, Pomel (lower jaw). — Miocene, St. Gerand-lc-Puy. — 
Bull. Soc. Geol. Franc. 1847, tome iv. ser. 2, p. 385, pi. 4, f. 4. 
(PlesiogaleJ angustifrons, Pomel. — Miocene, St. Gerand-le-Puy. — Bull. 
Soc. Gdol. Franc. 1847, tome iv. ser. 2, p. 385, pi. 4, f. 3 ; 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. 
SycBna spelcea, Goldfuss (lower jaw). — Cavern, Gailenreuth.— Cuvier, Oss. Foss. 
edit. 1836, pi. 192, f. 9. 
spelcea (diseased skull).— Cavern, Muggendorf.— Owen, Brit. Foss. Mam. 
p. 154, f. 59. 
