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CONTENTS.
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 Formations of intermediate Age in the chronological Series—Reference of the St. Cassian Beds to the Triassic Period—Discovery of new organic Types Feathered Archæopteryx of the Oolite |
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ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGES AND SPECIES COMPARED.
Aryan Hypothesis and Controversy—The Faces of Mankind change more slowly than their Languages—Theory of the gradual Origin of Languages—Difficulty of defining what is meant by a Language as distinct from a Dialect—Great Number of extinct and living Tongues—No European Language a Thousand Years old—Gaps between Languages, how caused—Imperfection of the Record—Changes always in Progress—Struggle for Existence between Rival Terms and Dialects—Causes of Selection—Each Language formed slowly in a single geographical Area—May die out gradually or suddenly—Once lost can never be revived—Mode of Origin of Languages and Species a Mystery—Speculations as to the Number of original Languages or Species unprofitable |
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BEARING OF THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMUTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF MAN, AND HIS PLACE IN THE CREATION.
Whether Man can be regarded as an Exception to the Rule if the Doctrine of Transmutation be embraced for the rest of the Animal Kingdom—Zoological Relations of Man to other Mammalia—Systems of Classification—Term Quadrumanous, why deceptive—Whether the Structure of the Human Brain entitles Man to form a distinct Sub-class of the Mammalia—Recent Controversy as to the Degree of Resemblance between the Brain of Man and that of the Apes—Intelligence of the lower Animals compared to the Intellect and Reason of Man—Grounds on which Man has been referred to a distinct Kingdom of Nature—Immaterial Principle common to Man and Animals—Non-discovery of intermediate Links among Fossil Anthropomorphous Species—Hallam on the compound Nature of Man, and his Place in the Creation—Dr. Asa Gray on Gradations in Nature, and on the bearing of the Doctrine of Natural Selection on Natural Theology |
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