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Buckland's Treatise

p 91 A list of Miocene Mammalia taken chiefly from Kaups Descrip. d'Ossements Fossiles Darmstadt 1832

p 94 The first caverns mentioned containing fossils are Pliocene

p. 107 "All perfection has relation to the object proposed to be attained by each form of organization that occurs in nature & nothing can be called imperfect which fully accomplishes the end proposed."

p. 169 The general form of the Icthyosaurus must have nearly resembled our porpoise.

p. 182 The sternum of Icthyosaurus resembles that of the Ornithorhyncus & Echidna the only two animals since secondary Epoch that we know of having this structure

p. 211 (In the Pleiosaurus the paddles are evidently composed on the ordinary type, In the Icthyosaurus this appears much more obscure C.D.)

P. 224 In the Pterodactyle the wing is formed by great elongation of the 4th or 5th claw, the hand being perfect. In the bat both the hand & metacarpal bones are elongated, the thumb only being distinct. Thinks they might have swum like the Pteropus of Bonin. See Zoolog. Journ No 16. p. 458

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Buckland [Bridgewater] Treatise p. 226 in on species of Pterodactyle there is a bony tendon to support the long neck like that which passes along the back of the Moscus pygmaeus & of many birds. No living lizard has this structure.

p. 249 Crocodiles the contemporaries of so many lost forms are still living, in which case are also land freshwater & marine tortoises. I suspect almost every great division of present living beings has some of its members in a fossil state.

p. 252 In the Wealdon formation as there are fresh water tortoises & land lizards the absence of Mammals is important. Europe perhaps formerly a kind of Australia with some marsups like has marsups with few Rodents. See on this Lyells Elements of Geology.

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p. 271 Top

272 top & note

Fishes & Mamifers appear to progress most rapidly

279 2d. note

280 low in page

282 1st. note study Agassiz

p. 294 top paragraph on degradation middle par shows there

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is new way of looking at petrel – auks – no – for they agree in tufts as feathers p. 295 top par