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APPENDIX. 
(A. p. 197.) 
“ When old beech-trees are cleared away, the naked ground, in a year 
or two, becomes covered with strawberry plants, the seeds of which must 
have lain in the ground for an age at least.” — White’s Natural History of 
Selborne, edition of 1875, p. 361. 
(B. p. 200.)* 
It is worth notice that this destroyer, “the Sardanapalus of the 
Greeks,” was himself destroyed, and himself the instrument of his own 
destruction— and that by fire. 
This last king of Assyria, “ who ruled over an empire stretching from 
Egypt and Lydia on the west, to Media and Persia on the east,” “finding 
his city was taken, made a pile of all his valuables in the palace, and 
setting fire to it, perished in the flames.” 
(C. p. 219.) 
Pendant toute la partie chaude de l’annce, e’est a dire depuis le 
printemps jusqu’a l'arriere saison, les pucerons se multiplient exclusivement 
en mettant en monde des petits vivants, sans l’intervention d’aucuu in- 
dividu male, mais a l’approche de la saison froide, ils rentrent dans les 
conditions ordinaires, et se propagent par l’intermediaire d’individus sexues 
comme les autres insectes. Les femelles, fficondees par les males, pondent 
des ceufs qui passant l’hiver et n’eclorent qu’au printemps. Ces ceufs 
donnent naissance a de nouvelles generations vivipares, qui se succedent 
sans interruption jusqu’en automne, pour etre remplacees a leur tour par 
d’autres pucerons, porteurs de sexe, lesquels terminent et recommencent 
tout a la fois le cycle reproducteur de l’espece.f 
(D. p. 220.) 
With all the attempts to represent matter as self-evolving, it is 
inexplicable why the segmentation of the germ should occur, why the 
whole germinal disk should be afterwards divided ; why the cross clefts 
should occur on each side of the mural cavity forming the protovertebra 
of embryologists ; why the vertebral column should be formed, and so forth. 
No powers exist in brute matter sufficient to account for these things ; 
no processes of crystallization have the least affinity with these varied 
developments. We could as reasonably expect a mass of “ nitrogenous 
* Assyrian Discoveries, pp. 11, 93, 94. 
t Balbiani, Mem. sur la Generation des Aphides, Science Nat. Zoologie, 
1862. 
