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... Lower and Upper Silurian Formations - First Forms of Life . Upper Silurian Devonian Era . - Fishes Abundant . 28 • 31 42 43 Carbonigenous Era - Land Plants and Animals 51 Permian Era . - Reptiles 65 • Era of the Trias and Oolite ...
... Lower and Upper Silurian Formations - First Forms of Life . Upper Silurian Devonian Era . - Fishes Abundant . 28 • 31 42 43 Carbonigenous Era - Land Plants and Animals 51 Permian Era . - Reptiles 65 • Era of the Trias and Oolite ...
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... Lower Silurian Formation is the Record of an Era of Invertebrate Animals PAGE 111 iv • iv vii 6. The Genera of the Lower Silurian Formation are humble in their respective lines of Gradation . vii 7. The early Fishes were low , both with ...
... Lower Silurian Formation is the Record of an Era of Invertebrate Animals PAGE 111 iv • iv vii 6. The Genera of the Lower Silurian Formation are humble in their respective lines of Gradation . vii 7. The early Fishes were low , both with ...
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... lower temperature . It is now thought that 2 See Proofs , Illustrations , & c . , No. 2 . The researches on this subject were chiefly conducted by the late Baron Fourier , Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sciences of Paris . See ...
... lower temperature . It is now thought that 2 See Proofs , Illustrations , & c . , No. 2 . The researches on this subject were chiefly conducted by the late Baron Fourier , Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sciences of Paris . See ...
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... LOWER AND UPPER SILURIAN FORMATIONS- FIRST FORMS OF LIFE . It follows that the strata in their order might be described as a record of the state of life upon our planet from an early to a comparatively recent period . It is truly such a ...
... LOWER AND UPPER SILURIAN FORMATIONS- FIRST FORMS OF LIFE . It follows that the strata in their order might be described as a record of the state of life upon our planet from an early to a comparatively recent period . It is truly such a ...
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... from the assumption of this being a time when no life existed on earth . Some geolo- De la Beche's Geological Researches , 1834 . gists who have a theory to support explain it away 32 LOWER AND UPPER SILURIAN FORMATIONS :
... from the assumption of this being a time when no life existed on earth . Some geolo- De la Beche's Geological Researches , 1834 . gists who have a theory to support explain it away 32 LOWER AND UPPER SILURIAN FORMATIONS :
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Page lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Page 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...