agree with Modern Geology. 75 



these evidences, that they have in general been the most strenu- 

 ous defenders of revelation. 



Will not human science, then, condescend to borrow some 

 light, to direct the steps of its own inquiries, from a record, the 

 accuracy of which it has itself proved, and which is supported 

 by other proofs of the highest order ? or, what should we say to 

 the illustrator of the relics of Pompeii and Herculaneum, who 

 should reject the light thrown on them by the Letters of Pliny, 

 authenticated as these are by the existing remains of the buried 

 cities, as well as the historical evidence which is proper to them- 

 selves ? 



Among the questions which geology is at present attempting 

 to solve, is that of a different temperature of some regions of the 

 earth at a remote age. The discoveries of Pallas and Adams, 

 of a rhinoceros and elephant in Siberia, having coverings of hair 

 fit to protect them from the cold of the northern regions, would 

 seem to decide the question, so far at least as to shew, that there 

 has been no change of temperature since the creation of animals. 

 But the question does not seem yet so satisfactoij-ily answered, so 

 far back as to the age of the creation of vegetables. Does not 

 the statement in Genesis, that the establishment of our present 

 days and seasons was intermediate between the creation of vege- 

 tables and that of animals, give us a clew to direct our path in 

 the inquiry ? 



On ifie Fundamental Types of Organization. By G. R. Tre- 

 VI R ANUS, M. D. &c. 



JL HE doctrine of organization is founded on comparative anato- 

 my, or the systematic distribution of living bodies, and on or- 

 ganic chemistry. It is not to be expected that we are to give 

 here any thing but a mere outline of these sciences ; a few land- 

 marks, which I think have some pretensions to novelty, and are 

 more correct then those which have been hitherto most general- 

 ly admitted. 



We can arrive at no mutual understanding in biology until 

 accurate definitions are given of the classes, families, genera, 

 and species of hving beings. Ever since natural history has 



