Antiquity of Man

15 pages in this part of Mythical Monsters.

I do not propose to bestow any large amount of space upon the enumeration of the palæontological evidence of the antiquity of man. The…

He estimates the average thickness of the sedimentary crust of the earth to be at least one mile, and from a computhe forms they have…

Laurentian 30,000 30,000,000 Cambrian 25,000 25,000,000 Silurian 6,000 6,000,000 Old Red and Devonian 10,000 10,000,000 Carboniferous…

Nor, up to the present time, are the evidences of the existence of man during Miocene and Pliocene times admitted as conclusive. Professor…

I have hitherto assumed a certain acquaintance, upon the part of the general reader, with the terms Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene, happily…

Man's range, generally admitted. 1. Recent 2. Post. Glacial 3. Pleistocene or Quaternary (including Glacial Post Tertiary) formation) 4…

Dinotherium.

Marine and fresh water Voluta Cyrena FRANCE. &c. &c. of Auvergne, Sandstone, indusial limestone of Cantal. Fluvio-marine strata of Merignac…

MIDDLE EOCENE.

Nummulites Miliolite limestone of minute Foraminifera.

Uinta group Uintatherium Bridger group Orohippus Dinoceras Uintatherium Tinocoras Tillotherium Green River group Crocodiles Conus, Voluta…

The correctness of these inferences has been objected to by Mr. James Geikie and Dr. Croll, who doubt whether the northward currents of air…

Mr. John Evans* has thrown out the idea that possibly a * Proceedings, Royal Society, vol. xv. No. 82, 1866. complete translation of…

Having thus spoken of the processes adopted for estimating the duration of geological ages, and the results which have been arrived at…

These, again, may be divided into an earlier and a later race, strongly characterized by the marked differences in the nature of the stone…