dites_,
_Echinostrobus_, &c., all Indian forms of the same age. Neocomian beds
contain a true dicotyledonous leaf with _Dammara_ and _Araucaria_. The
Cretaceous deposits have produced a rich flora of dicotyledonous plants,
many of which are of the same genera as the existing flora; while the
Miocene and other Tertiary deposits produce plants almost identical with
those now inhabiting the country, together with many North Temperate genera
which have since become extinct. (See p. 499, footnote, and _Trans. New
Zealand Inst._, Vol. XI. 1879, p. 536.)

[196] The fact stated in the last edition of the _Origin of Species_ (p.
340) on the authority of Sir Joseph Hooker, that Australian plants are
rapidly sowing themselves and becoming naturalised on the Neilgherrie
mountains in the southern part of the Indian Peninsula, though an exception
to the rule of the inability of Australian plants to become naturalised in
the Northern Hemisphere, is yet quite in harmony with the hypothesis here
advocated. For not only is the climate of the Neilgherries more favourable
to Australian plants than any part of the North Temperate zone, but the
entire Indian Peninsula has existed for unknown ages as an _island_ and
thus possesses the "insular" characteristic of a comparatively poor and
less developed flora and fauna as compared with the truly "continental"
Malayan and Himalayan regions. Australian plants are thus enabled to
compete with those of the Indian Peninsula highlands with a fair chance of
success.

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Corrections made to printed original.

Page 10. "the general stability of continents": 'sontinents' in original.

Pages 35, 250, 361, 363 "oenanthe" read for "aenanthe" throughout for
consistency

Page 50. "some others of the lower animals": 'animials' in original.

Page 82. "transmission along mountain chains": 'mountains chains' in
original.

Page 99. "our present land masses": 'massses' in original.

Page 149. "the whole earth should theoretically be": 'thoretically' in
original.

Page 200. "the flora and fauna, in the British area": 'Brittish' in
original.

Page 234. "the indications of an uninterrupted warm climate": 'indic-tions'
on line break in original.

Page 306. "artificially removed by man": 'artifically' in original.

Page 346. "Elachista rufocinerea, the larva of which ...": 'lava' in
original.

Page 456. "Cynopithecus nigrescens": 'Cynopitheus' in original.

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