190 SPECIES NOT 



In Professor Owen's recent work on the "Fossil 

 Mammalia," this part of the subject is handled 

 in the same masterly manner, as the relations of 

 living species is in that from which I have already 

 quoted so freely. The evidence which lie collects 

 and contrasts with the greatest care, all tells in 

 the strongest manner against Mr. Darwin's doc- 

 trine : 



"Organic remains, traced from their curliest 

 known graves, are succeeded one series by another 

 to the present period, and never re-appear A\ 

 once lost sight of in the ascending search. Afl 

 well might we expect a living ichthyosaur in the 

 Pacific as a fossil whale in the lias, the rule 

 governs as strongly in the v retrospect as the pros- 

 pect. And not only as respects the vertebra tn, 

 but the sum of the animal species at each suc- 

 cessive geological period, has been distinct and 

 peculiar to such period" 



But the extinction which we observe in the 

 geological periods was no where sudden. Life 

 Mvins to have been extinguished by a law which 

 we cannot understand, but one totally opposed 

 to that which would have obtained, had Mr. 

 Darwin's theory been true. Thus, as we have 

 >een, the geological history does not speak of the 

 destruction of the weak by the strong. What 

 have become of the great bat-like animal, the 

 pterodactyle, and the huge saurians, whose images 

 have been so well restored for us by Mr. Hawkins, 

 at the Crystal Palace? "\Vhat has become of the 

 mammoth, or elephant, considerably larger than 



