Vestiges of the Natural History of CreationChambers, Robert
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Chambers, Robert
Creation; Evolution (Biology)
Scale: VERTEBRATA _Mammalia_: 56 Insectivora
Order: Edentata (sloths, &c.)
Rocks: 11. Pliocene
Scale: VERTEBRATA _Mammalia_: 56 Insectivora
Order: Ruminantia (oxen, deer, &c.)
Rocks: 11. Pliocene
Scale: VERTEBRATA _Mammalia_: 57 Cheiroptera
Rocks: 11. Pliocene
Scale: VERTEBRATA _Mammalia_: 58 Quadrumana
Order: Quadrumana (monkeys)
Rocks: 11. Pliocene
Fœtal: 8th month, that of the quadrumana;
Scale: VERTEBRATA _Mammalia_: 59 Bimana
Order: Bimana (man)
Rocks: 12. Superficial deposits
Fœtal: 9th month, attains full human character;
{229} Some poor people having taken up their abode in the cells under
the fortifications of Lisle, the proportion of defective infants produced
by them became so great, that it was deemed necessary to issue an order
commanding these cells to be shut up.
{232} These affinities and analogies are explained in the next chapter.
{239a} Corresponding to the articulata of Cuvier.
{239b} A new sub-kingdom, made out of part of the radiata of Cuvier.
{239c} This is a newly applied term, the reasons for which will be
explained in the sequel.
{242} This is preferred to grallatorial, as more comprehensively
descriptive. There is the same need for a substitute for rasorial, which
is only applicable to birds.
{246} Distribution and Classification of Animals, p. 248.
{255} Researches, 4th edition, i. 95.
{257} Prichard.
{266} Mr. Swainson’s arguments about the entireness of the circle
simiadæ are only too rigid, for fossil geology has since added new genera
to this group and the cebidæ, and there may be still farther additions.
{270} See Wilson’s American Ornithology; article, _Fishing Crow_.
{274} Project Gutenberg note: in the diagram the triangles extending
from the 1,2,3,4 and the a,b,c,d meet at the same point—the line from the
1,2,3,4 being at around 45° and the line from the a,b,c,d being at around
60°. Despite what the text says there is no line labelled 5 in the
diagram.—DP.
{278} See Dr. Prichard’s Researches into the Physical History of Man.
{280} Buckingham’s Travels among the Arabs. This fact is the more
valuable to the argument, as having been set down with no regard to any
kind of hypothesis.
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