 | Science - 1854 - 480 pages
...the present stale of the planet. Then it was, that looking to the whole history of former life, as exhibited in the strata, it was demonstrated from...to the most recent stages in the geological series. In this volume auention is chiefly restricted to what has proved to be the protozoic, or first era... | |
 | 1866 - 992 pages
...words which in no lute truth." (p. 218.) department of thought are BO mischiov- J Silnria, p. 476. entirely renovated ; the secondary and tertiary periods...characterized by a distinct fauna as the primeval series."* On the same point Dr. Lardner thus writes : — • " During a succession of eight or nine-and-twenty... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1868 - 728 pages
...formation of the sediments which compose the crust of the earth, the animal kingdom had been at lfa$t three times entirely renovated, the Secondary and...characterized by a distinct fauna as the Primeval.' As is shown by the above quotations, the results of Sir Roderick's labours in the field of Palasozoic... | |
 | 1854 - 956 pages
...the present state of the planet. Then it was, that looking to the whole history of former life, as exhibited in the strata, it was demonstrated from...to the most recent stages in the geological series. In this volume attention is chiefly restricted to what has proved to be the protozoic, or first era... | |
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... of the planet. Then it was, that looking to the whole history of former life, as exhibited in the strata, it was demonstrated from phenomena in one great empire alone (as had to a great extent been shown in Britain), that during the formation of the... 