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and on the other hand tbat it existed in England so far back as before 
the deposition of the boulder Clay ; also that four well-defined species of 
ber of the remains aii three . these sige have been exhumed over a 
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persistence and uniformity of the characters of the molar teeth Aa the 
earliest known Mammoth and his most modern successor ing 
the observation to be correct, what strong proof does it not afford of. the 
persistence and constancy, throug out vast intervals of time, of the dis- 
tinctive characters of those organs which are most concerned in the ex- 
istence and habits of the species? If we cast a glance back on the long 
vista of physical shone which our planet has undergone since the Neo- 
zoic Epoch, we can nowhere detect signs of a revolution more sudden 
rvation, in so far as it has extended over the European ae is, that 
the specific characters of the molars are constant in each, within a mod- 
“sai pone of variation, and that w uonhee meet with Sse 
form Dr. Falconer continues, (p. 8 
nib pilin which I draw from these Hie are not opposed to one of 
the leading propositions of Darwin’s penne “ie him, I ana no faith in in oad 
i t the Mammoth a 
- is and E. antiquus, were not the s mee which the — a 
prim and anus sprung, a at we must loo! wi 
their indent ‘he nee affinity, and that a very close one, of the European 
E. me omer. E. planifrons of India; and of E. primi- 
arr with tage existing India 
Another reflexion is equally strong in my mind,—that the means which 
ree, been mp ee to explain the origin of the species by ‘ Natural Selection,’ 
Fieaces, are inadequate to account for 
@ phenomena. “The law of phyllotaxis, which evolution of lea’ 
&round the axis of a plant, is as nearly constant in its manifestation as any of 
the physical laws connected with the material world. Ea e, however 
different from another, can be shown to ome series of continued 
