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contemporary animals, apparently quite distinct, are 

 now and then fused together by the discovery of 

 extinct intermediary forms. In Cuvier's time, horse, 

 tapir, pig and rhinoceros were ranked as a distinct 

 order from cow, sheep, deer, buffalo and camel. 

 But so many transitional forms have been found 

 in Tertiary strata, that pachyderms and ruminants 

 are now united in a single order. By numerous 

 connecting links the pig is now seen to be closely 

 united with the camel and the antelope. Similar 

 results relating to the proboscidians, the hyena 

 family of carnivora, the apes, the horse and the rhi- 

 noceros, have been obtained from the exploration 

 of a single locality near Mount Pentelicus in Greece. 

 Among more than seventy species there discov- 

 ered, the gradational arrangement of forms was so 

 strongly marked, that the great paleontologist, M. 

 Gaudry, became a convert to Mr. Darwin's theory 

 in the course of the search." ' Indeed, so much was 

 M. Gaudry, who renews in our own day the tri- 

 umphs of Cuvier in paleontology, impressed by 

 the fossil remains of Greece and the transitional 

 forms of other lands, that he did not hesitate thirty 

 years ago to declare, that " the more we advance and 

 fill up the gaps, the more we feel persuaded that 

 the remaining voids exist more in our knowledge 

 than in nature. A few blows of the pick-axe at the 

 foot of the Pyrenees, of the Himalayas, of Mount 

 Pentelicus ; a few diggings in the sand-pits of Ep- 

 pelsheim or in the Mauvaises Terres of Nebraska, 

 have revealed to us the closest connecting links 



1 " Cosmic Philosophy," vol. II, pp. 40 and 41. 



