Part 5

Fossil Remains of the Human Species, 406

Account of the displacement of that part of the Coast of the Adriatic which is occupied by the Mouths of the Po, 410

On the Universal Deluge, 417

On the action of Running Waters, 437

Connection of Geology with Agriculture and Planting, 453

Account of the Fossil Elk of Ireland, 486

Account of the Living Species of Elephant, and of the Extinct Species of Elephant or Mammoth, 508

Account of the Caves in which Bones of Carnivorous Animals occur in great quantities, 516

Cave containing Bones at Adelsberg, in Carniola, 540

Tabular View of the Genera of Fossil Mammifera, Cetacea, Aves, Reptilia, and Insecta,--with their Geognostical Number and Distribution, 547

Tabular View of the Classes, Orders, or Families of Animals, occurring in a Living or Fossil State, with their Geognostical Distribution, 550

LIST OF PLATES.

The Frontispiece exhibits a vertical section of the Bone-Caves of Gaylenreuth, in Franconia.

Plate I. is a plan shewing the relative position of the Tertiary Mineral Formations around Paris.

II. is illustrative of the Succession of the Secondary Formations, and of the Distribution of Petrifactions.

II a. Extraordinary Fossil Animal named Pterodactylus longirostrus, found near Aichstedt, in Germany.

III. Figure of an Ibis in a Temple in Upper Egypt.

IV. Skeleton of an Ibis from a Mummy found at Thebes.

V. Numenius Ibis, supposed true Ibis of the Egyptians.

VI. Fossil Human Skeleton found in Guadaloupe.

VII. Cervus megaceros, Irish Elk in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society.

VIII. Fig. 1. Head and Horn of the Fossil Irish Elk. It represents a larger view of the head, in which the different markings are delineated, and the expansion of the horns shewn in a front view. In this is also seen the peculiar forked appearance of the sur-antler.

Fig. 2. The portion of cast horn mentioned at p. 501, having the smooth convex surface at the root.

Fig. 3. An internal and external view of the perforated rib, described in p. 504.

IX. Cervus megaceros, Irish or Isle of Man Elk in the Royal Museum of the University of Edinburgh.

PLATE I. Page 248.

PLAN

Shewing the relative position of the MINERAL FORMATIONS around PARIS