Part 44

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OMPHALOS;

AN ATTEMPT TO UNTIE THE GEOLOGICAL KNOT.

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This Work announces and illustrates a grand Physical Law, which, though hitherto unrecognised, is proved to be of universal application in the organic world--the Law of Prochronism in Creation. On this principle the Author shows that the conclusions of geologists as to the great antiquity of the earth are not inevitable, that there is another solution of the facts at least possible.

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ACTINOLOGIA BRITANNICA;

A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH SEA-ANEMONES AND CORALS.

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LETTERS FROM ALABAMA (U. S.),

CHIEFLY RELATING TO NATURAL HISTORY.

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Transcriber's Note

Illustrations have been moved next to the text which they illustrate, and may no longer match the locations given in the List of Illustrations.

The letters C and S used to describe shapes on p. 319 were printed in different fonts.

The following apparent errors have been corrected:

p. 21 "tranverse" changed to "transverse"

p. 50 "‘the" changed to "“the"

p. 51 "point," changed to "point."

p. 51 "foot." changed to "foot,"

p. 61 "Inprovements" changed to "Improvements"