 | Science - 1836 - 534 pages
...older tertiary systems, — in their abundance (and frequently of known genera) in the upper portion of the same series, — and, lastly, in the recent appearance of man on the surface of the earth, now universally admitted, — in one word, from all these facts combined we have a series of proofs,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1851 - 570 pages
...quadrupeds, frequently of unknown genera, in the older tertiary system, and in their great abundance, and frequently of known genera, in the upper portions of the same series — a?id lastli/, in the recent appearance of Man on the surface of the earth.' — (Discourse, p.... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - Bible and geology - 1840 - 328 pages
...quadrupeds (frequently of unknown genera) through the older tertiary systems—in their great abundance (and frequently of known genera) in the upper portions of the same series—and, lastly, in the recent appearance of man on the surface of the earth (now universally... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - Geology - 1841 - 558 pages
...older tertiary systems, — in their abundance (and frequently of known genera) in the upper portion of the same series, — and, lastly, in the recent appearance of man on the surface of the earth, now universally admitted, — in one word, from all these facts combined we have a series of proofs,... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - Geology - 1841 - 564 pages
...systems,—in their abundance (and frequently of known genera) in the upper portion of the same series,—and, lastly, in the recent appearance of man on the surface of the earth, now universally admitted,—in one word, from all these facts combined we have a series of proofs,... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - Geology - 1841 - 560 pages
...systems,—in their abundance (and frequently of known genera) in the upper portion of the same series,—and, lastly, in the recent appearance of man on the surface of the earth, now universally admitted,—in one word, from all these facts combined we have a series of proofs,... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - Education, Higher - 1850 - 786 pages
...quadrupeds (frequently of unknown genera) in the older tertiary system ; and in their great abundance (and frequently of known genera) in the upper portions...recent appearance of man on the surface of the Earth (now universally admitted) ; — in one word, from all these facts combined, we have a series of proofs... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Social Science - 1863 - 576 pages
...portions of the same series ; and lastly, in the recent appearance of Man on the surface of the earth.' ' This historical development,' continues the same author,...gradual evolution of creative power, manifested by £. gradual ascent towards a higher type of being.' ' But the elevation of the fauna of successive... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1863 - 578 pages
...of Geology, 1st ed. 1832, vol. ii.ch.xi.; and 9th ed. p. 706. 396 THEORY OF PROGRESSION CHAI-. xx. genera) in the upper portions of the same series ;...recent appearance of Man on the surface of the earth.' ' This historical development,' continues the same author, ' of the forms and functions of organic... | |
 | Dominick M'Causland - Ethnology - 1868 - 352 pages
...Tertiary system, and in their great abundance (and frequently of known genera) in the upper portion of the same series ; and, lastly, in the recent appearance of man upon the earth. . . . This historic development of the forms and functions of organic life during successive... | |
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... in the newer secondary groups — in the diffusion of warm-blooded quadrupeds (frequently of unknown genera) in the older tertiary system ; and in their great abundance (and frequently of known genera) in the upper portions of the same series —... 
