SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. xvii PART VIII.—CAINOZOIC OR TERTIARY PERIOD. Chapter L.—General View of the Eocene or NUNIIULITIC Group. History Denudation of the Chalk Eocene strata Eocene flora and fauna PAGE 598 598 599 599 PACE Eocene range . . . .601 Eocene subdivisions . . . 602 Historical classification of British Tertiary strata . . . 603 Chapter LI.—Lower Eocene Strata—THANET Sands, Woolwich and Reading Series, OLDHAVES Beds, and London Clay. Thanet sands .... 604 | Fauna 604 Woolwich and Reading series . 605 Conditions of deposition . . 605 Range 606 Fauna ...... 607 Oldhaven beds .... 608 London clay .... 609 Basement bed and its fauna . 609 Palaeontology of the London clay 611 Chapter LII.—Middle and Upper Eocene : Middle Bagshot Beds and Bracklesham Series. Bracklesham beds . . .615 At Whitecliff bay . . .616 Stratigraphical relations . .616 Marine beds . . . .617 Freshwater beds . . . .618 Bournemouth flora . . .619 Bracklesham fauna . . .619 Middle Bagshot beds; Barton clay 620 Chapter LUI.—Oligocene Strata. The name “ Oligocene ” Range of British Oligocene strata Bovey-Tracey beds . * . Oligocene fauna through four groups ..... Oligocene strata of the Isle of Wight Oligocene on the Continent . 621 622 623 624 624 625 Paris basin Belgium and Germany Switzerland and Central France . The Headon series The St. Helens beds or Osborne series . . . . . Bembridge beds .... Hempstead series 625 626 627 628 629 631 632 General Tables of the Organic Remains of the Eocene Strata . 633-644 Summary of Eocene life 645 Chapter LIV.—Miocene Strata. History and range . . . 646 India 648 Flora and fauna .... 646 i North America .... 648 Mayence and Vienna basins . 647 | Life of the Miocene period . . 649 VOL. II. b