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County of Forfar ("Edinburgh Journal

       of Science" 1825).

       English Scientific Societies ("Quarterly Review" volume 34; three

       papers with Sir Roderick and Mrs. Murchison; "Edinburgh

       Philosophical Journal," 1829; abstract in "Proceedings of the

       Geological Society" 1; "Annales des Sciences Naturelles" 1829;

       abstract in "Proceedings of the Geological Society" 1).

       Address delivered at the Geological Society of London, 1836.

       Lectures on Geology—Eight Lectures on Geology, delivered at the

       Broadway Tabernacle, New York ("New York Tribune" 1842).

       A Paper on Madeira ("Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society"

       10, 1853).

       On the Structure of Lavas which have Consolidated on Steep Slopes

       ("Philosophical Transactions" 1858).

       Address (to the British Association) 1864.

       TRANSLATIONS:

       Antiquity of Man, translated into French by M. Chaper, 1864; and

       into German by L. Buchner, 1874.

       Elements of Geology (sixth edition), translated into French by M.

       J. Gineston, 1867.

       Report, extracted from the "Aberdeen Free Press" and translated

       into French, of Sir C. Lyell's address before the British

       Association, 1859, under the title of Antiquities antediluviennes:

       L'homme fossile.

      LIFE:

       Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, edited by his

       sister-in-law, Mrs. Lyell, 1881.

       See also:

       Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887.

       Life and Letters of Sedgwick, by Clark and Hughes, 1890.

       Table of Contents

       CHAP. 1.

       INTRODUCTORY.

       Preliminary Remarks on the Subjects treated of in this Work.

       Definition of the terms Recent and Pleistocene.

       Tabular View of the entire Series of Fossiliferous Strata.

       CHAP. 2.

       RECENT PERIOD—DANISH PEAT AND SHELL MOUNDS—

       SWISS LAKE-DWELLINGS.

       Works of Art in Danish Peat-Mosses.

       Remains of three Periods of Vegetation in the Peat.

       Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron.

       Shell-Mounds or ancient Refuse-Heaps of the Danish Islands.

       Change in geographical Distribution of Marine Mollusca

       since their Origin.

       Embedded Remains of Mammalia of Recent Species.

       Human Skulls of the same Period.

       Swiss Lake-Dwellings built on Piles.

       Stone and Bronze Implements found in them.

       Fossil Cereals and other Plants.

       Remains of Mammalia, wild and domesticated.

       No extinct Species.

       Chronological Computations of the Date of the Bronze and Stone

       Periods in Switzerland.

       Lake-Dwellings, or artificial Islands called "Crannoges,"

       in Ireland.

       CHAP. 3.

       FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AND WORKS OF ART OF

       THE RECENT PERIOD—continued.

       Delta and Alluvial Plain of the Nile.

       Burnt Bricks in Egypt before the Roman Era.

       Borings in 1851-54.

       Ancient Mounds of the Valley of the Ohio.

       Their Antiquity.

       Sepulchral Mound at Santos in Brazil.

       Delta of the Mississippi.

       Ancient Human Remains in Coral Reefs of Florida.

       Changes in Physical Geography in the Human Period.

       Buried Canoes in Marine Strata near Glasgow.

       Upheaval since the Roman Occupation of the Shores of the

       Firth of Forth.

       Fossil Whales near Stirling.

       Upraised Marine Strata of Sweden on Shores of the Baltic

       and the Ocean.

       Attempts to compute their Age.

       CHAP. 4.

       PLEISTOCENE PERIOD—BONES OF MAN AND EXTINCT MAMMALIA

       IN BELGIAN CAVERNS.

       Earliest Discoveries in Caves of Languedoc of Human Remains

       with Bones of extinct Mammalia.

       Researches in 1833 of Dr. Schmerling in the Liege Caverns.

       Scattered Portions of Human Skeletons associated with Bones

       of Elephant and Rhinoceros.

       Distribution and probable Mode of Introduction of the Bones.

       Implements of Flint and Bone.

       Schmerling's Conclusions as to the Antiquity of Man ignored.

       Present State of the Belgian Caves.

       Human Bones recently found in Cave of Engihoul.

       Engulfed Rivers.

       Stalagmitic Crust.

       Antiquity of the Human Remains in Belgium how proved.

       CHAP. 5.

       PLEISTOCENE PERIOD—FOSSIL HUMAN SKULLS OF THE

       NEANDERTHAL AND ENGIS CAVES.

       Human Skeleton found in Cave near Dusseldorf.

       Its geological Position and probable Age.

       Its abnormal and ape-like Characters.

       Fossil Human Skull of the Engis Cave near Liege.

       Professor Huxley's Description of these Skulls.

       Comparison of each, with extreme Varieties of the native

       Australian Race.

       Range of Capacity in the Human and Simian Brains.

       Skull from Borreby in Denmark.

       Conclusions of Professor Huxley.

       Bearing of the peculiar Characters of the Neanderthal Skull

       on the Hypothesis of Transmutation.

       CHAP. 6.

       PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM AND CAVE DEPOSITS WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS.

       General Position of Drift with extinct Mammalia in Valleys.

       Discoveries of M. Boucher de Perthes at Abbeville.

       Flint Implements found also at St. Acheul, near Amiens.

       Curiosity awakened by the systematic Exploration of the

       Brixham Cave.

       Flint Knives in same, with Bones of extinct Mammalia.