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phant and the Irish Elk. Dr. H. Falconer has said that fossil 
Man will yet be found in Nature’s great Sivalik cemetery, and at 
other places where, together with the great apes, he could exist, 
whether in Miocene or even earlier times, under tropical or sub- 
tropical conditions. We must wait. Alas that philosophers cannot 
profit by the cautions they give to others! Here our author defi- 
nitely limits Man’s existence to the post-Tertiary period, accept- 
ing negative evidence, too impatient to wait for coming facts, and 
more easily impressed with the “ vague analogy ” of Greek succeeding 
Assyrian, or the Roman the Hebrew, than willing to see that, as 
Mammals existed before his ‘‘ Mastozoic Epoch,” so remains of Man 
may well be looked for in strata older than those of his ‘‘ Anthropo- 
zoic Epoch.” 
The last Lecture is an honest and “ conservative” exposition of the 
author’s views of the history of life on the globe; he compares 
Combe’s ‘Vestiges of Creation’ with the philosophy of Lamarck 
and Darwin, and he rejects them all, preferring to ‘‘remain con- 
tented with the very old-fashioned, but very simple and very satisfac- 
tory, hypothesis of a Creator.” 
Altogether this is a remarkable book, good for geologists to read ; 
by no means a “ Manual,” it is really a valuable series of Lectures on 
Paleontology, preceded by some on Geognosy, and enriched with 
the results of Prof. Haughton’s labours in chemical geology, his 
masterly thoughts on cosmical subjects, his earnest philosophy, his 
clever mathematical researches, his genuine classical knowledge, and 
his pains-taking acknowledgment of what is due to the patriarchs of 
science. There are graces and virtues here which are rare enough in 
the majority of geological treatises, and which outweigh the deterio- 
rating effect of rather too much egotism. It must have been a strong 
belief in the value of these lectures, in a philosophic point of view, 
that induced the author to present them, for the use of students, 
without even a footnote or an appendix to tell them of the three 
years’ added knowledge. There is no note of the disentanglemeunt 
of the Metamorphic or so-called “‘ Azoic”’ rocks, and of the conse- 
quent disappearance of the “systems” of slates and gneiss from the 
geological class-room,no mention of Archeopteryzx (the reptilian bird), 
nor any account of fossil works of man; and there are several short- 
comings in the author’s knowledge of natural history and geology. 
That additions might have been made, the introduction of the curious, 
but extremely doubtful, marsupialism of the Dinothere, at p. 333, 
makes evident ; and appendices might have been still added. Possibly 
a new edition will take a new shape; and, incorporating and correct- 
ing, it will certainly form a highly valuable treatise, not so compre- 
hensive as a real manual, not so cosmopolitan and independent of 
party principles; but, based on good ideas, and imbued with the 
author’s own style of thought, it will treat of the globe as Haughton 
will have taught us to think of it,—it will treat of life on the globe as 
represented by the myriads of mingled created forms, distinct and 
yet united, independent portions of one great whole, related by ana- 
logies and homologies, separable in their degrees of symmetry and of 
