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'Cosmos' Death of Humboldt The three Naturalists, 

 Lamarck, Cuvier, and Geoffrey St.-Hilaire Cuvier begins the 

 Museum of Comparative Anatomy Lamarck's History of 

 Invertebrate Animals G. St.-Hilaire brings Natural History 

 Collections from Egypt Lamarck on the Development of 

 Animals G. St.-Hilaire on ' Homology,' or the similarity in 

 the parts of different animals Cuvier's ' Regne Animal ' and 

 his Classification of Animals Cuvier on the Perfect Agree- 

 ment between the Different Parts of an animal He Studies 

 and Restores the Remains of Fossil Animals His ' Ossemens 

 Fossiles ' Death of Cuvier Von Baer on the Study of Em- 

 bryology Parker and Balfour on Embryology . . . 423 



CHAPTER XL. 



SCIENCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED). 



Prejudices which retarded the study of Geology Sir Charles 

 Lyell traces out the Changes going on now Mud carried 

 down by the Ganges Eating away of Sea-coasts Eruption of 

 Skaptar Jokul Earthquake of Calabria Rise and Fall of 

 Land ' Principles of Geology ' published in 1830 Murchison 

 on stratigraphical geology Louis Agassiz De Saussure's 

 Study of Glaciers Agassiz on Europe and North America 

 being once covered with Ice Boucher de Perthes on Ancient 

 Flint Implements M'Enery on Flint Implements in Kent's 

 Cavern, with Bones of Extinct Animals Swiss Lake-dwellings 

 ' Antiquity of Man ' Study of Petrology .... 441 



CHAPTER XLI. 



SCIENCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED). 



Facts which led Naturalists to believe that the different kinds of 

 Animals are descended from Common Ancestors All Animals 

 of each class formed on one Plan Embryological Structure 

 Living and Fossil Animals of a country resemble each other 

 Gradual Succession of Animals on the Globe Lin** between 



