Chapter XV.--Fossil Ichthyology; Ganoid, Ctenoid, and Cycloid Fishes, 600. Chapter XVI.--Fossil Reptiles; Enaliosaurians and Crocodiles, 643. Chapter XVII.--Fossil Reptiles; Dinosaurians, Lacertians, Pterodactyles, Turtles, Serpents, and Batrachians, 684. Chapter XVIII.--Fossil Birds, 759. Chapter XIX.--Fossil Mammals, 775. PART IV.--Geological Excursions, 827. Miscellaneous, 905. General Index, 909. DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. Plate I.--Frontispiece to Vol. I. Plate II. Frontispiece to Vol. II. Plates III., IV., V., and VI., to follow the Table of Contents, and be placed opposite the description of each. Lign. 247, to face page 770. DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTISPIECE OF VOL. I. PLATE I. Fig. 1.--A Fern in Coal-shale, from Leicestershire. 2.--A Crustacean in Limestone, from Solenhofen. 3.--A Fish (_Pycnodus rhombus_) in Limestone; from near Castel-a-mare. 4.--Half the Lower Jaw of a Hyena, from a fissure in a sandstone rock, near Maidstone. 5.--An Ammonite, from the Isle of Portland. DESCRIPTION OF THE VIGNETTE OF VOL. I. A Group of Fossils, containing Ammonites Mantellii, from the _Chalk-marl_, Sussex. Turrilites costatus, from the _Lower Chalk_, Rouen. Chondrites Bignoriensis, from the _Chalk-marl_, Sussex. Echinus and Fusus, from _Tertiary strata_, Palermo. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE II. _The Frontispiece of Vol. II._ A Fossil Fish of the Salmon tribe, allied to the Smelt; from the Chalk, near Lewes, in Sussex. [See Vol. II. pages 626 and 628.] [Illustration: _Pl. 3._ _J. Dinkel del. G. Scharf lithog._ _Printed by Hullmandel & Walton_] DESCRIPTION OF PLATE III. _Incrustations, and Fossil Plants._ Figs. 1, 2, 3.--Twigs of Larch and Hawthorn, coated with tufa, or travertine, from having been exposed to the dripping of an incrusting spring; from Russia; see p. 39. 5.--A branch of recent _Chara_, with its fruit, with a thin pellicle of incrustation. Matlock. 6, 7.--Hazel-nuts, from Belfast Lough: fig. 6 is lined with crystals of calcareous spar; fig. 7 is filled with a solid mass of the same mineral; see p. 71. 4, 8.--Impressions of Dicotyledonous Leaves in Gypseous Marlstone, from Stradella, near Pavia; see p. 201. 9.--Eocene Lacustrine or Fresh-water Limestone, from East Cliff Bay, Isle of Wight, with stems and seeds of Charge: slightly magnified; see p. 195. 10.--Encrusted Twigs, from Matlock; the vegetable matter has perished, and left tubular cavities; see p. 39, and p. 873. [Illustration: _Pl. 4._ _J. Dinkel del. G. Scharf lithog._ _Printed by Hullmandel & Walton_] DESCRIPTION OF PLATE IV.