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SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES. 
have any record. The same general plan, 
the same rigorous separation between kinds, 
the same diversity between individuals, the 
same grouping of species into tribes and 
families, the same leading divisions of God’s 
works in this province of creation. We 
need no new grammar of natural histor)^ for 
the study of fossil remains, the present is the 
key to the more scanty past, the syntax is 
the same, though the words are different. 
The animals and plants figured on sculp¬ 
tures from Nineveh, found in the tombs of 
Egypt, and described in the pages of in¬ 
spired scripture, alike testify to the identity 
of species throughout all time. It is now 
well established by the demonstrations of 
Owen, the illustrations of Dr. Prichard, 
and of Professor Forbes, and the indepen¬ 
dent evidence of many eminent physiolo¬ 
gists, that the occurrence of a 7iew species 
in creation would be an event of which 
we have no similar instance during the 
historical era. 
The science of fossil botany is probably 
yet only in its infancy; twenty-five years 
since there were not one hundred fossil 
