page 456 note * The investigations of Murchison and Sedgwick in the Cambrian and Silurian Strata began in 1831; the views of Sir C. Lyell on Tertiary periods were made known in 1829.

page 457 note * See the Memoirs of Lartet, M. on the Caves of the Dordogne, 1863–1864.Google Scholar

page 457 note † In the caves of Gower, Devon, and Somerset, flint flakes occur with several extinct animals.

page 458 note * Gallie of Beligian on the south-east coast; Iberian in South Wales; German at the foot of the Grampians.—(Tacitus, Vita Agricolæ.)

page 458 note † ‘Britanniæ pars interior ab iis incolitur, quos Datos in insula ipsa memoria proditum dicunt.’—(Cæsar, v. 12.)

page 459 note † Prestwich, Transactions of the Royal Society, 1860, and Proc. of Roy. Inst., 02. 1864.Google Scholar

page 459 note ‡ Pengelly, Reports of the British Association, 1864.Google Scholar

page 459 note § The late Dr. Hugh Falconer, whose knowledge of the fossil animals of cares was remarkably exact, took a great share in these examinations.

page 460 note * Max Müller on the Science of Language.

page 461 note * On the Origin of Species, 1859.Google Scholar

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page 463 note * The work of Geikie, recently published, and entitled ‘The Scenery of Scotland viewed in connexion with its Physical Geology,’ is an admirable illustration of that author's descriptive powers. Though I am opposed to his view of the original formation of valleys and deep depressions by rivers and the atmosphere, I quite agree with him as to the great effect produced by glaciers when that mountainous region was covered by snow and ice.