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4^{th} Limestone or Java Oolite & Lias Limestones Fossil Shells, Corals, Crustacæ, Lacertæ, Turtles. Fishes and Vegetables.

5^{th} Sandstone or Green Sand or Quader Sandstone with Coal, Fishes, Lacertæ & Emydes.

5^{th} Limestone & Chalk Fossil Shells, Corals, Lacertæ, Turtles & Fishes.

Brown Coal Formation Crocodiles &c. also Dictyledonous Plants.

Hertfordshire Puddingstone Crocodiles &c. also Dictyledonous Plants.

Paris Formation First appearance of Fossil Remains of Birds & Mammiferous Animals.

Diluvial Formation Remains of extinct species of Elephant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Tapir, Deer, Hyena, Bear &c.

Post Diluvial Formation Fossil Remains of the Human Species first appear in this formation.

Edinburgh Published by W^m Blackwood 1827.

W. H. Lizars Sc.]

PLATE. II. a Page 261.

Extraordinary animal, named PTERODACTYLUS LONGIROSTRIS found near Aichstedt in Germany.

Edinburgh Published by W^m. Blackwood 1827.]

PLATE III. Page 318.

FIGURE OF AN IBIS in one of the Temples in UPPER EGYPT.

Beak, half the natural size of a mummy Ibis.

Eng^d. by W. H. Lizars.]

PLATE IV. Page 307.

SKELETON OF AN IBIS extracted from a Mummy found at THEBES in EGYPT.

Eng^d. by W. H. Lizars Edin^r.]

PLATE V. Page 309.

NUMENIUS IBIX

Supposed to be the true Ibix of the EGYPTIANS.

Eng^d. by W. H. Lizars Edin^r.]

PLATE VI. Page 406.

FOSSIL

HUMAN SKELETON FOUND IN GUADALOUPE

Edinburgh Published by W^m. Blackwood 1827.]

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