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(32) 'Distribution of the Post-Glacial Mammalia' (Ibid.), vol. xxv.
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(33) 'On British Fossil Oxen' (Ibid.), vols. xxii. and xxiii. Boyd
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(35) 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae.' Lartet and Christy.
(36) 'Zoologie et Paleontologie Francaises.' Gervais.
(37) 'Notes on the Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada.' Dawson.
(38) "On the Connection between the existing Fauna and Flora of
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Tylor.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE SUCCESSION OF LIFE UPON THE GLOBE.
In conclusion, it may not be out of place if we attempt to summarise,
in the briefest possible manner, some of the principal results
which may be deduced as to the succession of life upon the earth
from the facts which have in the preceding portion of this work
been passed in review. That there was a time when the earth was
void of life is universally admitted, though it may be that the
geological record gives us no direct evidence of this. That the
globe of to-day is peopled with innumerable forms of life whose
term of existence has been, for the most part, but as it were
of yesterday, is likewise an assertion beyond dispute.
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