The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2 / First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic Remains

by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Address to the Reader, [xi].

Table of Contents, [xv].

Description of the Plates, [xix].

List of Lignographs in Vol. I., [xxxi].

Introduction, [1].

Preliminary Remarks:—On the Plan of the Work and the Arrangement and Subdivision of the subjects it embraces, [8]. Works of Reference, [8]. Explanation of Terms, [11]. List of subjects, [12].

PART I.—Stratigraphy of the British Islands, and the Nature of Fossils, [15].

[Chapter I.]—On the Nature and Arrangement of the British Strata and their Fossils, [15].

[Chapter II.]—Synopsis of the British Strata, [23]. Chronological Arrangement of the British Formations; Modern or Human Epoch; Post-Pliocene, [23]. Tertiary Epochs, [24]. Secondary Epochs, [25]. Palæozoic Epochs, [30]. Hypogene Rocks, [34]. Volcanic Rocks, [35].

[Chapter III.]—On the Nature of Fossils or Organic Remains, [37]. Incrustations, [38]. Silicification, [40]. Animal Remains, [43]. Hints for Collecting Fossil Bones, [45].