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Principles of Geology

Charles Lyell · Composed as a long-running edition/author’s revision culminating in the 9th edition; prefaced May 24, 1853.

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[831] Georg. lib. iii. 273.

[832] Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, Hort. Trans., vol. iv. p. 41.

[833] Ibid.

[834] Essai Elamentaire, &c., 3me partie.

[835] Intr. to Entom. vol. ii. p. 504. ed. 1817.

[836] Prichard's Phys. Hist. of Mankind, vol. i. p. 159.

[837] Ch. White on the Regular Gradation in Man, &c. 1799.

[838] R. G. Latham, The Nat. Hist. of the Varieties of Man, 8vo. London, 1850.

[839] Lawrence, Lectures on Phys. Zool. and Nat. Hist. of Man, p. 190. Ed. 1823.

[840] E. R. A. Serres, Anatomie comparae du Cerveau, illustrated by numerous plates, tome i. 1824.

[841] Barton's Lectures on the Geography of Plants, p. 2. 1827.

[842] Pers. Nar., vol. v. p. 180.

[843] Ibid.

[844] Essai Elamentaire de Gaographie Botanique. Extrait du 18me vol. du Dict. des Sci. Nat.

[845] Prichard, vol. i. p. 36. Brown, Appendix to Flinders.

[846] Foster, Observations, &c.

[847] Humboldt, Pers. Nar., vol. i. p. 270 of the translation. Prichard, Phys. Hist. of Mankind, vol. i. p. 37.

[848] Voyage of the Beagle, 2d edition, 1845, p. 377.

[849] See a farther subdivision, by which twenty-seven provinces are made, by M. Alph. De Candolle, son of De Candolle. Monogr. des Campanulaes. Paris, 1830.

[850] De Candolle, Essai Elamen. de Gaog. Botan., p. 45.

[851] I am indebted for the above sketch of distinct regions of algae to my friend Dr. Joseph Hooker, who refers the botanical student to the labors of Dr. Harvey, of Trinity College, Dublin.

[852] Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes.

[853] Linn., Tour in Lapland, vol. ii. p. 282.

[854] Fries, cited by Lindley, Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Botany.

[855] System of Physiological Botany, vol. ii. p. 405.

[856] Brown, Append. to Tuckey, No. v. p. 481.

[857] Phil. Trans. 1696.

[858] System of Physiological Botany, vol. ii. p. 403.

[859] Greville, Introduction to Algae Britannicae, p. 12.

[860] Linnaeus, Amoen. Acad., vol. ii. p. 409.

[861] Amoen. Acad., vol. iv. Essay 75. Section 8.

[862] Ibid., vol. vi. Section 22.

[863] Smith's Introd. to Phys. and Syst. Botany, p. 304. 1807.

[864] This information was communicated to me by Professor Henslow, of Cambridge.

[865] Book iii. ch. iv.

[866] De Candolle, Essai Elamen. &c., p. 50.

[867] Quarterly Review, vol. xxx. p. 8.

[868] Essay on the Habitable Earth, Amoen. Acad., vol. ii. p. 409.

[869] Principles of Botany, p. 389.

[870] Ibid.

[871] Buffon, vol. v.--On the Virginian Opossum.

[872] Prichard's Phys. Hist. of Mankind, vol. i. p. 54.

[873] In the above enumeration of the leading zoological provinces of land quadrupeds I have been most kindly assisted by Mr. Waterhouse of the British Museum, author of a most able and comprehensive work on the "Natural History of the Mammalia," now in the course of publication. London, Bailliere, 1846.

[874] Pennant's Hist. of Quadrupeds, cited by Prichard, Phys. Hist. of Mankind, vol. i. p. 66.

[875] Natural History of the Mammalia, vol. i., on the Marsupials. London, Bailliere, 1846.

[876] Description of the Equatorial Regions.

[877] Prichard, Phys. Hist., of Mankind, vol. i. p. 75.

[878] Buffon, vol. v. p. 204.

[879] Sir T. D. Lauder, Bart., on the Floods in Morayshire, Aug. 1829, p. 302, second edition.

[880] Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains, vol. ii. p. 153.

[881] Richardson's Fauna Boreali-Americana, p. 16.

[882] Phil. Trans., vol. ii. p. 872.

[883] Wood's Zoography, vol. i. p. 11.

[884] On the authority of Mr. Campbell. Library of Entert. Know., Menageries. vol. i. p. 152.

[885] Cuvier's Animal Kingdom by Griffiths, vol. ii. p. 109. Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Menageries, vol. i. p. 366.

[886] Horsfield, Zoological Researches in Java, No. ii., from which the figure is taken.

[887] Append. to Parry's Second Voyage, years 1819-20.

[888] Account of the Arctic Regions, vol. i. p. 518.

[889] Turton in a note to Goldsmith's Nat. Hist., vol. iii. p. 43.

[890] Supplement to Parry's First Voyage of Discovery, p. 189.

[891] Goldman's American Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 22.

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