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evidence of the Echiuodermata Brachiopoda fish &c., &c. , and 
these have decided!)' 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 que.stions are more or le.ss 
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 Altanti.ses : first the mythological 
one which is the one referred to b}^ Platon in the Timaeus ; the 
l^hysical basis of this is the clouds which appear oyer 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 inquiries. This Atlantis has a 
geological basis, that is to say, a ba.sis in what w'e know of the 
hi.story of the Earth. 
Among later observations which I have not before referred 
to are those of Standing in the Transactions of the Zoological 
Societ}' for 1908. He therein states his belief that American 
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IMonkej'S 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. 
