THKIR IMPORTAISCE DULY APPRECIATED. 1 (JO 
gated, and the greatest of comparative anatomists 
as devoted much of his time and talent to 
h their organization. Similar inquiries 
ave been carried on also by a host of other 
en ig itened and laborious individuals, conduct- 
independent researches in various countries, 
ce t le commencement of the present century ; 
hence our knowledge of the oeteology of a large 
number ol extinct genera and species, now rests 
on nearly the same foundation, and is estab- 
lished with scarcely less certainty, than the 
anatom, cal details of those c-eatures that present 
then hv.ng bodies to our examination. 
the n T “hy «‘™nger proof of 
th,n“ ,L 1 Organisa- 
nature r all animated 
Cuvier th“t aataWished by 
. at fiom the character of a single limb 
n even of a single tooth or Imne, the form and 
propo h of ah^ -Xn of 
prevnt nf 'r ^his law 
exIsW h ''' ^iversally, throughout the 
creatures that have 
hence not tenants of our planet ; 
skeleton of framework of the fossil 
racter f ^^^inct animal, but also the cha- 
moved^th ^ by which each bone was 
the fonrJ^^ ^"Jtei-nal form and figure of the body, 
life If c;™'’ “Ode S 
eatmes that ceased to exist before the 
