On the Birds to which the name of Ibis was given by the Ancient Egyptians,[299]

GEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS

BY PROFESSOR JAMESON.

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On the Subsidence of Strata,[ 333]
Deluge,[334]
Formation of Primitive Mountains,[335]
On the Distribution of Boulder-Stones in Scotland, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and America,[344]
On the Alluvial Land of the Danish Islands in the Baltic and on the Coast of Sleswigh,[354]
On the Sand-Flood,[368]
Sand-Flood in Morayshire,[369]
Sand-Flood in the Hebrides, &c.[372]
Moving Sands of the African Deserts,[375]
Action of the Sea upon Coasts,[378]
On the Growth of Coral Islands,[379]
On the Level of the Baltic,[398]
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.