 | Richard Owen - 1859 - 120 pages
...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct...and, as it would, seem, obedient to some general, but as yet, ill-comprehended law. In regard to animal life, and its assigned work on this planet, there... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1859 - 118 pages
...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct...and, as it would- seem, obedient to some general, but as yet, ill-comprehended law. In regard to animal life, and its assigned work on this planet, there... | |
 | 1859 - 554 pages
...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct and peculiar to such period. No one, save a prepossessed Uniformitarian, would infer from the lucina of the permiam, and the opis... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Vertehrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct...gradual; and, as it would seem, obedient to some general, but as yet illcomprehended law. In regard to animal life, and its assigned work on this planet, there... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1860 - 436 pages
...as the prospect. And not only as respects the Vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each geological period has been distinct and peculiar to...; and, as it would seem, obedient to some general, but as yet, ill-comprehended law. In regard to animal life, and its assigned work on this planet, there... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1860 - 466 pages
...prospect. And not only as respects the Vertebrata, put the sum of the animal species at each geolo:gieal period has been distinct and peculiar to* such period. Not that the extinction of sueh fonns or species was sudden or simuitaBeous r the evidences so interpreted have been but local... | |
 | 1860 - 448 pages
...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Vertobratn, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct and peculiar to such period. Kot that the extinction of such forms or species was sudden or simultaneous : the evidences so interpreted... | |
 | 1862 - 1006 pages
...maintain the distinctness of life in different formations. Says Owen, " The sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct and peculiar to such period." Says Agassiz, " One result rtaoda now unquestioned : the existence during each geological era of an... | |
 | 1863 - 924 pages
...maintain the distinctness of life in different formations. Says Owen, " the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct and peculiar to such period." 2 Says Agassiz, " one result stands now unquestioned : the existence, during each great geological... | |
 | 1867 - 448 pages
...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Vertébrala, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct...simultaneous: the evidences so interpreted have been bat local. Over the wider field of life, at any given epoch, the change has been gradual; and, as it... | |
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Vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct and peculiar to such period. Not that the extinction of such forms or species was sudden or simultaneous : the evidences so interpreted have been but... 
