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CHAPTER V.-EXAMINATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, AND
CONSEQUENT SPECULATIONS.
Sect. 1. The Examination of the Nervous System.
Sect. 2. The consequent Speculations. Hypotheses respect-
ing Life, Sensation, and Volition
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CHAPTER VI.-INTRODUCTION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF DEVE-
LOPED AND METAMORPHOSED SYMMETRY.
Sect. 1. Vegetable Morphology.-Göthe. De Candolle
Sect. 2. Application of Vegetable Morphology.
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359
365
CHAPTER VII.-PROGRESS OF ANIMAL MORPHOLOGY.
Sect. 1. Rise of Comparative Anatomy
Sect. 2. Distinction of the General Types of the Forms of
Animals.-Cuvier
368
371
374
Sect. 3. Attempts to Establish the Identity of the Types of
Animal Forms
CHAPTER VIII.-THE DOCTRINE OF FINAL CAUSES IN
PHYSIOLOGY.
Sect. 1. Assertion of the Principle of Unity of Plan.
Sect. 2. Estimate of the Doctrine of Unity of Plan
Sect. 3. Establishment and Application of the Principle of
the Conditions of Existence of Animals.-Cuvier. 389
377
382
Sect. 1. Ancient Notices of Geological Facts
Sect. 2. Early Descriptions and Collections of Fossils
Sect. 3. First Construction of Geological Maps
CHAPTER II.-FORMATION OF SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIVE
GEOLOGY.
Sect. 1. Discovery of the Order and Stratification of the Ma-
terials of the Earth . . .
411
Sect. 2. Systematic Form given to Descriptive Geology.—Wer-
ner.
414
Sect. 3. Application of Organic Remains as a Geological Cha-
racter. Smith
416
Sect. 4. Advances in Palæontology.—Cuvier
Sect. 5. Intellectual Characters of the Founders of Systematic
Descriptive Geology.
418
422
CHAPTER III. SEQUEL TO THE FORMATION OF SYSTEMATIO
DESCRIPTIVE 'GEOLOGY.
Sect. 1. Reception and Diffusion of Systematic Geology
Sect. 2. Application of Systematic Geology.-Geological Sur-
veys and Maps
426
Sect. 3. Geological Nomenclature
430
Sect. 4. Geological Synonymy, or Determination of Geological
432
Equivalents
435
CHAPTER IV.-ATTEMPTS TO DISCOVER GENERAL LAWS
IN GEOLOGY.
Sect. 1. Necessity and Object of a Science of Geological
Dynamics.
450
Sect. 2. Aqueous Causes of Change
453
Sect. 3. Igneous Causes of Change.-Motions of the Earth's
Sect. 5. Problems respecting Elevations and Crystalline Forces 468
Sect. 6. Theories of Changes of Climate
CHAPTER VI.-PROGRESS OF THE GEOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF
470
ORGANIZED BEINGS.
Sect. I. Objects of this Science .
474
Sect. 2. Geography of Plants and Animals
Sect. 3. Questions of the Transmutation of Species
Sect. 4. Hypothesis of Progressive Tendencies .
Sect. 5. Question of Creation as related to Science.
475
477
479
483
Sect. 6. The Hypothesis of the Regular Creation and Extinc-
tion of Species
488
1. Creation of Species
2. Extinction of Species
Sect. 7. The Imbedding of Organic Remains
PHYSICAL GEOLOGY.
CHAPTER VII.-PROGRESS OF PHYSICAL GEOLOGY.
492
494
Sect. I. Object and Distinctions of Physical Geology
Sect. 2. Of Fanciful Geological Opinions.
Sect. 3. Of Premature Geological Theories
CHAPTER VIII.—THE TWO ANTAGONIST DOCTRINES OF
Sect. I. Of the Doctrine of Geological Catastrophes
Sect. 2.
Uniformity.
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