[7] Story of the Earth, Origin of the World, Chain of Life in Geological Time.
[8] The Ceylon elephant is by some believed to be distinct, but is probably a variety of the Indian species.
[9] Fossil Men (London, 1880), Appendix.
[10] The first continental period was that of the earlier Pliocene.
[11] The precise date in years assignable to this event geology cannot determine; but I have elsewhere shown that the actual antiquity of the palæocosmic or antediluvian man has been greatly exaggerated.
[12] As Piloceras, for example.
[13] I am indebted for these figures to my friend Dr. S. P. Robins of Montreal.
[14] Belfast Address.
[15] More especially in The Origin of the World (London and New York, 1877).