610 GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. 



ously altered and distributed, but all have proceeded upon one grand 

 and harmonious principle, and all speak the same language. They 

 tell us of changes which have taken place during the preparation of 

 this world for the abode of man, the noblest of the Great Creator's 

 works. Many are afraid to enter upon the investigations of Palaeon- 

 tology, from a mistaken idea that they are at variance with Scripture. 

 We need not fear, however, that in prosecuting our scientific researches, 

 we shall ever arrive at a point where the knowledge of nature will be 

 found at variance with the truths of Scripture. The more each is 

 studied, the more shall we find occasion to admire the harmony that 

 subsists between them, and the beautiful light of illustration which 

 they reciprocally shed on one another. 



For fuller details on the subject of Fossil Botany, consult Brongniart's Plantes 

 Fossiles, Button and Lindley's Fossil Flora, Witham on Fossil Plants, Goep- 

 pert's Fossil Ferns, Goeppert on the Flora of the Brown Coal Formation, in 

 Arbeiten der Schlesichen Gesellschaft for 1847, and in the Quarterly Journal 

 of the Geological Society, vol. v., King's Papers on the Coal Fossils in the 

 Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Hooker's Papers in the Keport of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of Great Britain; besides Geological works, such as Ansted's 

 Geology. 



