ABSTRACT

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIONS TO THE HYPOTHESIS OF TRANSMUTATION FOUNDED ON THE ABSENCE OF INTERMEDIATE FORMS-GENERA OF WHICH THE SPECIES ARE CLOSELY ALLIED-OCCASIONAL DISCOVERY OF THE MISSING LINKS IN A FOSSIL STATE-DAVIDSON’S MONOGRAPH ON THE BRACHIOPODA-WHY THE

GRADATIONAL FORMS, WHEN FOUND, ARE NOT ACCEPTED AS EVIDENCE OF TRANSMUTATION —GAPS CAUSED BY EXTINCTION OF RACES AND SPECIES-VAST TERTIARY PERIODS DURING WHICH THIS

EXTINCTION HAS BEEN GOING ON IN THE FAUNA AND FLORA NOW EXISTING-GENEALOGICAL BOND BETWEEN MIOCENE AND RECENT PLANTS AND INSECTS-FOSSILS OF OENINGHEN-SPECIES OF INSECTS IN

BRITAIN AND NORTH AMERICA REPRESENTED BY DISTINCT VARIETIES-FALCONER’S MONOGRAPH ON LIVING AND FOSSIL ELEPHANTS —FOSSIL SPECIES AND GENERA OF THE HORSE TRIBE IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA-RELATION OF THE PLIOCENE MAMMALIA, OF NORTH AMERICA, ASIA, AND EUROPE-SPECIES OF MAMMALIA, THOUGH LESS PERSISTENT THAN THE MOLLUSCA, CHANGE SLOWLY-ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST TRANSMUTATION DERIVED FROM THE ABSENCE OF MAMMALIA IN ISLANDS-IMPERFECTION OF

THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD-INTERCALATION OF NEWLY DISCOVERED FORMATION OF INTERMEDIATE AGE IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES-REFERENCE OF THE ST. CASSIAN BEDS TO THE TRIASSIC PERIODS-

DISCOVERY OF NEW ORGANIC TYPES-FEATHERED ARCHEOPTERYX OF THE OOLITE.