قراءة كتاب The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science

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The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science

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Nicholson Henry Alleyne

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Mammals—Occurrence of the bones and implements of Man in Post-Pliocene deposits in association with the remains of extinct Mammalia—Literature relating to the Post-Pliocene period.

CHAPTER XXIII.

The succession of life upon the globe—Gradual and successive introduction of life-forms—What is meant by "lower" and "higher" groups of animals and plants—Succession in time of the great groups of animals in the main corresponding with their zoological order—Identical phenomena in the vegetable kingdom—Persistent types of life—High organisation of many early forms—Bearings of Palæontology on the general doctrine of Evolution.

APPENDIX.—Tabular view of the chief Divisions of the Animal Kingdom.

GLOSSARY.

INDEX.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FIG.
1.	Cast of Trigonia longa.
2.	Microscopic section of the wood of a fossil Conifer.
3.	Microscopic section of the wood of the Larch.
4.	Section of Carboniferous strata, Kinghorn, Fife.
5.	Diagram illustrating the formation of stratified deposits.
6.	Microscopic section of a calcareous breccia.
7.	Microscopic section of White Chalk.
8.	Organisms in Atlantic Ooze.
9.	Crinoidal marble.
10.	Piece of Nummulitic limestone, Pyramids.
11.	Microscopic section of Foraminiferal limestone—Carboniferous, America.
12.	Microscopic section of Lower Silurian limestone.
13.	Microscopic section of oolitic limestone, Jurassic.
14.	Microscopic section of oolitic limestone, Carboniferous.
15.	Organisms in Barbadoes earth.
15.	Organisms in Barbadoes earth.
16.	Organisms in Richmond earth.
17.	Ideal section of the crust of the earth.
18.	Unconformable junction of Chalk and Eocene rocks.
19.	Erect trunk of a Sigillaria.
20.	Diagrammatic section of the Laurentian rocks
21.	Microscopic section of Laurentian limestone.
22.	Fragment of a mass of Eozoön Canadense.
23.	Diagram illustrating the structure of Eozoön.
24.	Microscopic section of Eozoön Canadense.
25.	Nonionina and Gromia.
26.	Group of shells of living Foraminifera.
27.	Diagrammatic section of Cambrian strata.
28.	Eophyton Linneanum.
29.	Oldhamia antiqua.
30.	Scolithus Canadensis.
31.	Group of Cambrian Trilobites.
32.	Group of characteristic Cambrian fossils.
33.	Fragment of Dictyonema sociale.
34.	Generalised section of the Lower Silurian rocks of Wales.
35.	Generalised section of the Lower Silurian rocks of North America.
36.	Licrophycus Ottawaensis.
37.	Astylospongia prœmorsa.
38.	Stromatopora rugosa.
39.	Dichograptus octobrachiatus.
40.	Didymograptus divaricatus.
41.	Diplograptus pristis.
42.	Phyllograptus typus.
43.	Zaphrentis Stokesi.
44.	Strombodes pentagonus.
45.	Columnaria alveolata.
46.	Group of Cystideans.
47.	Group of Lower Silurian Crustaceans.
48.	Ptilodictya falciformis.
49.	Ptilodictya Schafferi.
50.	Group of Lower Silurian Brachiopods.
51.	Group of Lower Silurian Brachiopods.
52.	Murchisonia gracilis.
53.	Bellerophon argo.
54.	Maclurea crenulata.
55.	Orthoceras crebriseptum.
56.	Restoration of Orthoceras.
57.	Generalised section of the Upper Silurian rocks.
58.	Monograptus priodon.
59.	Halysites catenularia and H. agglomerata.
60.	Group of Upper Silurian Star-fishes.
61.	Protaster Sedgwickii.
62.	Group of Upper Silurian Crinoids.
63.	Planolites vulgaris.
64.	Group of Upper Silurian Trilobites.
65.	Pterygotus Anglicus.
66.	Group of Upper Silurian Polyzoa.
67.	Spirifera hysterica.
68.	Group of Upper Silurian Brachiopods.
69.	Group of Upper Silurian Brachiopods.
70.	Pentamerus Knightii.

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