A new system of geology, in which the great revolution of the earth and animated nature, are reconciled at once to modern science and sacred history / By Andrew Ure.

Andrew Ure

Date:: 1829

Credit: A new system of geology, in which the great revolution of the earth and animated nature, are reconciled at once to modern science and sacred history / By Andrew Ure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$General Table of Living NUMBERS OF THE GENERA WHICH 457 and Fossil Genera. ARE FOUND NUMBERS OF os \ SPECIES | IN THE INTHE | srrata | 8 Oo NAMES OF CLASSES, es Seeaariie S PO AND NATURAL ORDERS, 2 4 ma | te : REMARKS. OR FAMILIES, $ cS jy lols lak i EB g a oN Mier es ge SiS ha | sis! = er ge Sie] ola |u| & a ie A[eleleio)e) |e |2 er ya) |e a =| = WM Polyparies,. . 30 \52 147 |19|36|105| 527) 414 Stellerides (Starfish), 4 2| 4) 41° 76) 4 Echinides (Sea ye 6| 3] '7| 8} 5] Il] 95] 112 Annelides, . < Zt psy Vy er ol wit eo Serpulées, 2} 3) 11 3| 3] 3} 6; 36! 69 Cirrhippedes, . 8] 2 I 2| 10) S01 47 -|Tubicolées, . 11 3.2 By Bt dee IG Pholadaires, 2 BREF CR Se Bivalve shells, . 18 |61 |24.|44 2551 |103 |1009)1104: {Univalve shells, 33 |87 (28 |27 |16 |93 |148 |1945|1544) The remains of birds Genera little enon, 4| 3) J 4, djbeing very difficult to Crustacea, . . Zt BS) db] 21 9-28 54|distinguish,the num- APishes; 0556 « -|54| 6]11| 2155) 60 183|ber of their genera in Mammiferous and 94,112 361 36 the fossil state is pro- cetaceous, cad Ran bablymuchmore con- Dirds, «;,. P 3 31. 3 3|siderable. | Reptiles, : 4) 4) 3) 2] 4) 8 23 Insects, . 14 14] 14: Vegetables, . 14.;10}12 This curious table, and its introductory statements, are taken from the article Petrifactions, written by ‘M. Defrance for the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, and published in 1826. CHAP. IV.—ELEVATION OF SUBMARINE STRATA. _ Havine endeavoured to solve one enigma of the primeval world, the fervid temperature of even its circumpolar zones, I shall next offer some remarks illustrative of another geological difficulty, the transfer of the ocean from its ancient to its pre- sent bed.$