.">:> SI'KCIFK' FORMS. 



8. Tliis diminution of the apparitions of generic types is in 

 disaccordance with the increase of the number of s]M-eies 

 during the Silurian period. 



In effect, if the new tvpes were formed by the divergence 

 of the species, as supposed by the development theory, the 

 increase of the number of specific forms must entail an in- 

 crease of the number of generic types. In any case it could 

 not cause a diminution of them. 



Then, each of the principal facts that we have given on the 

 subject, of generic types, constitutes a grave discordance 

 between the theories of evolution and the realitv. 



II. Specific Forms. 



1. We have never acquired the certainty and we have never been 

 induced to suppose that any species among the cephalopoda 

 of IJohemia. was derived by filiation and transformation from 

 another anterior species. The filiation and transformation 

 are then, in our point, of view simply theoretic 'fictions. 



-2. No species, to our knowledge, has been transformed to a new 

 generic type, neither by successive slow variations nor by 

 sudden changes. 



On the contrary we have ascertained at various times that 

 all the species and all the groups of congeneric forms, which 

 have varied sensibly from their generic type in certain par-, 

 ticulars and which appeared to tend towards a new type, 

 appeared and disappeared suddenly, without leaving any 

 posterity preserving the traces of the same character. 



3. Our second phase of Kauna No. "> possesses alone 777 species 

 Of Cephalopoda, thai is to say about. .'51 percent, of a 11 the species 

 of this order known in the Silurian. Our basin, very remark- 

 able for its small si/e furnishes about -!."> per cent, of these. 



These accumulations of ccphalopods in surfaces so rest rieled 

 are in contradiction with the theories of natural selection and 

 of the struggle for existence. 



