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Excerpt from American Naturalist, 1874, Vol. 8: An Illustrated Magazine of Natural History
Return of Professor Marsh's Expedition, p. 58. The N. W. Wyoming Expedition, p. 124. Monkeys in the American Miocene, p. 125. The Genus Protohippus, p. 126. Remains of Land Plants in the Lower Silu rian, p. 190. The great Lava-flood of the West, p. 244. Deep-sea Ex plorations, p. 369. The Carboniferous Formation of South America, p. 441. Analogy of the Tertiary Fauna of France to the Temperate Regions of America, p. 442. Small size of the Brain in Tertiary Mammals, p. 503. Deep Sea Soundings, p. 504. Deep sea Temperature in the Antarctic Sea, p. 637. Origin of the Valley of the Rhine, p. 637. Supposed Lower Silurian Land Plants, p. 693. European Fossil Cetacea, p. 694. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.