[74] Described by La Harpe and Gaudin, and recently by Gardner.
[75] Recent discoveries have since the publication of the first edition removed the Bovey Tracey beds from the Miocene to the Eocene. See Reports of Mr. Starkie Gardner to the British Association.
[76] Lyell, Principles; Brown, Florula Discoana.
[77] G. M. Dawson, Report on 49th Parallel; Reports on British Columbia.
[78] Gray’s reasoning is based on the extreme view of the Glacial period now prevalent in America, contrary, as it appears to me, to the actual facts; but with limitations it holds good on more moderate views as well.
[79] Geological Magazine, July, 1887.
[80] Les Enchainements du Monde Animal.
[81] See Frontispiece to this Chapter.
[82] For example, Tillotherium of the American Eocene, which was as large as a tapir, and in form resembled a bear.
[83] Croll, Climate and Time.