The evolutions of the earth as set forth in this and the preceding section. For
this purpose the author has introduced a parallel table. Exhibiting on one
side a scale of animal life beginning with the humblest and ascending to the
highest species and on the other side the successive series of rock
formations. In which their fossiliferous remains have been found up to the
present superficial deposits of the globe. Objections have been made to the
correctness of the author’s analogies. Scale and his classification of
animals. The chief of which will be adverted to in the next section; but the
table is essential., as presenting at one view an outline of the hypothesis he
has sought to establish. Scale of animal kingdom. Order of animals in
ascending series fontal human brain of rocks. Resembles. In vertebrata.
Briana Superficial deposits month, attains full human character,
TRANSMUTATION OF SPECIES. In the two last sections we have gone
through the earth’s geological history. First of the changes in its physical
structure next of