EVIDENCE OF FOSSIL REMAINS 



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uisite knowledge for his special task, which is to arrange 

 the extinct animals whose remains are found as fossils of 

 various earth ages in the order of their succession in time. 



CONDENSED TABLE OF PAL^ONTOLOGICAL FACTS 



After what seems an unduly long preparation, we 

 now come to the actual biological evidence of evolution 

 provided by the results of this division of zoological 

 science. But all of the foregoing is fundamentally part 

 of this department of knowledge and it is absolutely 

 essential for any one who desires to understand what 

 the fossils themselves demonstrate. 



