In the first place, it is certain that there has been a succession of life upon the earth, different specific and generic types succeeding one another in successive periods.
We thus see how hopelessly difficult it is to compare with perfect fairness, under such extremely complex relations, the standard of organisation of the imperfectly-known faunas of successive periods.
The old notion of all the inhabitants of the earth having been swept away by catastrophes at successive periodsis very generally given up, even by those geologists, as Elie de Beaumont, Murchison, Barrande, etc.
A] This theory implies, almost necessarily, a very unequal representation at successive periods of the principal classes and orders of plants and animals, if not in the whole globe, at least throughout very wide areas.
Beaumont has of late greatly multiplied the number of successive periods of instantaneous upheaval, admitting at the same time that occasionally new lines of upthrow have taken the direction of older ones.
Successive Periods of Junction and Separation of England, Ireland, and the Continent.
Proofs that distinct Species of Animals and Plants have lived at successive Periods.
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