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confusion in the views of that naturalist is obviated, and that so 
far from the flcetz formations which came under his considera- 
tion having been few in number, they comprehended the whole 
series, from the old red sandstone up to the chalk, and above the 
chalk, gravel, sand, clay, wood-coal, and the newest flcetz-trap 
formation. His arrangement of formations in Germany is, wjhen 
duly construed, quite in accordance with their succession in the 
British Isles. There is no hiatus. We travel from the primary 
to the transition, and thence through the whole series of the 
flcetz, in which last, let it be observed, that, though the carbo- 
niferous series be less fully displayed, yet other formations are 
in much greater force in Germany, and afford a greater variety 
of character than is to be found in the British Isles ; and here 
we may perceive the compensating power of nature. 
‘‘ I have, therefore, yet to learn that more modern inquiries have 
at all invalidated the general positions of Werner. His grand 
outlines of the structure of the globe remain unshaken, from the 
fundamental granite, up to the newest flcetz-trap. The labours 
of his followers, and of other geol 9 gists pursuing a similar path, 
have tended more and more to fill up those outlines. 
The Comparative View of flcetz formations which I sub- 
mitted to the public in the Annals of Philosophy, Oct. 1891, is 
consistent with the main positions of Werner, though, from the 
mode of considering them, there may seem to be some difference : 
this, however, is rather apparent than real. It arises from the 
following circumstances : 1. In the carboniferous series, produ- 
cing the limestone and the coal as distinct formations, while Wer- 
ner considered them only as members of his first flcetz sandstone, 
or rothe todtliegende formation : 9. In like manner, in the gyp- 
seous and saliferous series, producing the weissliegende or calca- 
reous conglomerate as a distinct formation ; while, by Friesle- 
ben and others, it is included in the magnesian limestone forma- 
tion : 3. As a consequence of the foregoing, in considering the 
magnesian limestone as belonging to the second flcetz series : 
and 4. From distributing the flcetz formations into four princi- 
pal series, founded, as 1 conceive, on natural distinctions ; name- 
ly, on their relative position in the order of succession, their mi- 
neralogical characters, the organic remains which they respec- 
tively contain, and tlie mutual affinities of the formations which 
