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Plants, — Calamites cannceformis, rare. ^ 



Cyclopteris ? sp. 

 Neuropteris, sp. 

 Pecopteris, sp. 

 From the Lower Coal Measures at Rosedale, Kansas, four miles south of 

 the city, the fossils are found on the dump from the bottom of the coal shaft, 

 which is about seven hundred feet deep. 



Lamellibranchiata. — *Cardiomorpha Missouriensis. 

 *Aviculopecten rectileratarius. 

 Cephalopoda. — *Nautilus, sp. 



^Goniatites, sp. 

 Fishes. — *Petrodus acutus. 



*Petrodus occidentalis. 

 *Listracanthus hystrix. 

 In the Loess. — Helix, sp, 2. 

 Pupa, sp. 

 Succinea, sp. 



Teeth and fragments of bones of Mastodon. 

 Teeth and incisors of Rodents. 



GEOLOGY IN GENESIS.— 11. 



S. H. TROWBRIDGE. 



In the first part of this article attention was mainly directed to the origin and 

 development of the inorganic portions of our earth; in this, we notice more par- 

 ticularly the mode of introduction of its organized beings. 



The formulated expressions, " Let the earth bring forth," " Let the waters 

 bring forth, " and again, " Let the earth bring forth, " impress the mind with the 

 idea of parturition, and suggest the question whether God's plan of creation was 

 by fiat or by secondary agents — whether mediate or immediate. The most ab- 

 sorbing question of the age, (unless, perhaps, we must except pleasure-seeking 

 and money-making), is in regard to the origin of the thousands of living forms 

 which have peopled and do people our earth. It may be threadbare, it may be 

 even offensive to some, but it is the question which still perplexes the thi7iking world, 

 and, like Banquo's ghost, will not down at their bidding. The; oft-repeated for- 

 mula, " after his kind, " relating to the introduction of plant and animal life upon 

 the earth, is considered by many as destructive to the development hypothesis of 

 Darwin and others. Morris understands by it that every animal " produces its 

 own kind and its own kind only through all the successive generations. " Lyell 

 says: "Each and every species was endowed, at the time of its creation, with 

 the attributes and organs by which it is now distinguished." Principal Dawson 

 claims "we are taught by this statement that plants were created each kind by 



