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The Primæval World of Switzerland: with 500 Illustrations. By ProfessorOswald Heer, of the University of Zurich. Edited by James Heywood M.A., F.R.S., (Translated by W. S. Dallas F.L.S., Assistant Secretary Geol. Soc. Lond.) Illustrated by a coloured Geological Map of Switzerland; 7 tinted page-size plates of scenery; and 11 Plates of Fossils. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 716. (London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1876.)

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page 78 note 1 See the Alpine Guides by John Ball, F.R.S., late President of the Alpine Club, London, Longmans & Co., in 10 parts at 2s. 6rf. each, with excellent maps and panoramas.

page 78 note 2 On the Tertiary Flora of Switzerland. On the Vegetation and Climate of the Tertiary Period. On the Tertiary Insects of OEningen and Radoboj.

page 78 note 3 The Lignite Formation of Bovey Tracey, by W. Pengelly, F.E.S., and Dr. Oswald Heer, of Zurich, Phil. Trans., 1863.

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page 82 note 1 Preserved in the British Museum, and described by Prof. Owen in the Phil. Trans. 1863, p. 33, pi. 1.

page 82 note 2 See paper on some Coniferous Remains from the Lithographic Stone of Solenhofen, by Prof. Dyer, W. T. Thiselton B.A., B.Sc, F.L.S., Geol. Mag. 1872, Vol. IX. pp. 150, 193, Pl. V., etc.Google Scholar

page 87 note 1 See the admirable Address by Prof. Asa Gray to the American Association at Dubuque, Iowa, in Silliman's American Journal, 1872, 3rd series, vol. iv. p. 282.