An idea of an artificial arrangement of fossils, according to unalterable characters, and superadded qualities : also of a natural method, according to their ascent towards their greatest perfection / By Sir John Hill.
- Date:
- 1774
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An idea of an artificial arrangement of fossils, according to unalterable characters, and superadded qualities : also of a natural method, according to their ascent towards their greatest perfection / By Sir John Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 2- ] H V Example. From the moft complete of the Tribes. An unorganized natural Body, is a Fossil. Add the Idea pure. It becomes Simple Fojfil. This is its Series. Add to thefe c alcin able. It becomes Limey Fojfil. This is its Tribe, Add to thefe pellucid, It Add to thefe foluble in Acids, It becomes light Limey 1 t-l* * t» r 7 7 7 rry > l his IS Its rAMJLY. joluble BoJjiL 5 Add to thefe again transparent. It becomes Spar *. This is its Genus. Add to thefe a columnar Figure, It becomes Columnar Spar. This is its Species. Add to thefe ayellow Colour, It becomes Fopazine Spar. This is a Variety. Add to thefe a blue Colour, It becomes Smaragdine^ This is a Variety of Spar f. 5 a Variety. After this there can be only the Difference of Bignefs; and that diftinguifhes Individuals. becomes light Limey £ This i$ i£s QRDERi rojfil. * Here Foffils begin to have diftinffb Names, f The Blue mixtwith the former Yellow producing a Green. # F O S S I L S, i](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30790323_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
