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CONTENTS.
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Upper Eocene Mammalia of the Continent
32
The Order Primates represented
34
Climate of Britain Tropical
35
General Conclusions
35
Man not here
36

CHAPTER III.

BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL CHANGES IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF MAN.—THE MEIOCENE PERIOD.

The Meiocene Classification
38
Genera of Meiocene Mammalia now living
39
The Southern Seaboard
40
Continuity with North America
43
The Mountains
44
Meiocene Volcanoes in British Islands
45
The Meiocene Rivers
47
The British Meiocene Forests
47
Meiocene Flora of the Hebrides and Ireland
49
„„ on the Continent
49
Lower Meiocene Mammals
53
„„ Birds
54
Mammals inhabiting Forests of the Mid Meiocene Age
55
Land Mammalia and Birds of Upper Meiocenes
59
Meiocene Geography on the Continent
61
The Meiocene Climate
62
No Evidence of Glacial Period in the Meiocene Age
65
No Proof of Man in Europe in the Meiocene Age
66

CHAPTER IV.

BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL CHANGES IN NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF MAN.—THE PLEIOCENE PERIOD.

British Pleiocene Strata
71
Geography of Britain in the Pleiocene Age
72
Evidence of Icebergs in the North Sea, off the Coast of Britain
75
The Pleiocene Flora
77
Pleiocene Climate
78
Lower Pleiocene Mammalia of France
79
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