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[2] Heer “Miocene baltische Flora” and “Fossil-flora von Alaska” 1869.
[3] D’Archiac Monogr., pp. 79, 100.
[4] Pengelly, preface to The Lignite Formation of Bovey Tracey, p. xvii, London, 1863.
[5] Philos. Trans., 1863. Paper by W. Pengelly, F.R.S., and Dr. Oswald Heer.
[6] Quart. Geol. Journal, 1851, p. 19.
[7] Quart. Geol. Journal, 1851, p. 90.
[8] David Dale Owen, Geol. Survey of Wisconsin, etc., Philad., 1852.
CHAPTER XVI.
EOCENE FORMATIONS.
Eocene Areas of North of Europe. — Table of English and French Eocene Strata. — Upper Eocene of England. — Bembridge Beds. — Osborne or St. Helen’s Beds. — Headon Series. — Fossils of the Barton Sands and Clays. — Middle Eocene of England. — Shells, Nummulites, Fish and Reptiles of the Bracklesham Beds and Bagshot Sands. — Plants of Alum Bay and Bournemouth. — Lower Eocene of England. — London Clay Fossils. — Woolwich and Reading Beds formerly called “Plastic Clay.” Fluviatile Beds underlying Deep-sea Strata. — Thanet Sands. — Upper Eocene Strata of France. — Gypseous Series of Montmartre and Extinct Quadrupeds. — Fossil Footprints in Paris Gypsum. — Imperfection of the Record. — Calcaire Silicieux. — Gres de Beauchamp. — Calcaire Grossier. — Miliolite Limestone. — Soissonnais Sands. — Lower Eocene of France. — Nummulitic Formations of Europe, Africa, and Asia. — Eocene Strata in the United States. — Gigantic Cetacean.