St. Hilaire has declared his opinion, that there has been an uninterrupted succession in the animal kingdom effected by means of generation, from the earliest ages of the world up to the present day; and that the ancient animals whose remains have been... The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal - Page 1471829Full view - About this book
| Geology - 1829 - 430 pages
...developement. This has been remarked, and I have been enjoined to do justice to the subject." M. Geoffroy St Hilaire believes in an uninterrupted succession...could not have been the ancestors of these latter. In t\\ejirst place, the extinct species are united with the living species by the closest analogy. Ail... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 368 pages
...M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire has declared his opinion, that there has been an uninterrupted succession in the animal kingdom effected by means of generation,...earliest ages of the world up to the present day; and that the ancient animals whose remains have been preserved in the strata, however different, may... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1856 - 724 pages
...towards perfection. It has been further maintained that there has been an uninterrupted succession in the animal kingdom effected by means of generation, from the earliest ages «f the world to the present day; that new species and transformations have been gradually produced... | |
| James Cocke Southall - Archaeology - 1875 - 626 pages
...Geoffroy St. Hilaire set forth the doctrine ncw" that there had been an uninterrupted succession in the animal kingdom, effected by means of generation,...earliest ages of the world up to the present day, and that the ancient animals whose remains have been preserved in the strata, however different, may... | |
| James William Buel - Zoology - 1891 - 748 pages
...(Echinus detalandi). PRIMARY SHELL. further maintained that there has been an uninterrupted succession in the animal kingdom effected by means of generation, from the earliest ages of the world to the present day ; that new species and transformations have been gradually produced by the growth... | |
| Charles Lyell - Science - 1990 - 352 pages
...M. Geoffrey St. Hilaire has declared his opinion, that there has been an uninterrupted succession in the animal kingdom effected by means of generation,...the earliest ages of the world up to the present day ; and that the ancient animals whose remains have been preserved in the strata, however different,... | |
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