Origin of Species Variorum

→ OMIT 1869 1872

stages of the widely separated 1859 1860

stages of the 1861 1866

→ tertiary 1859 1860 1861 1869 1872

of the tertiary 1866

→ OMIT 1869 1872

distant parts of 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ at distant points change 1869 1872

change at distant points 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ sea-shells all still living; 1869 1872

still living sea-shells; 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ ten-thousandth year, 1869

hundred-thousandth year, 1859 1860 1861 1866

to the same century, 1872

→ now living 1869 1872

which live at the present day 1859 1860 1861 1866

authors;

authors:

so it is, according to Lyell, with the

~~several~~

several

European and North American tertiary deposits. Even if the few fossil species which are common to the Old and New Worlds

were

kept wholly out of view, the general parallelism in the successive forms of life, in the →OMIT palæozoic and →tertiary

periods,

stages,

would still be manifest, and the several formations could be easily correlated.

These observations, however, relate to the marine inhabitants of →OMIT the world: we have not sufficient data to judge whether the productions of the land and of fresh water →at distant points change in the same parallel manner. We may doubt whether they have thus changed: if the Megatherium, Mylodon, Macrauchenia, and Toxodon had been brought to Europe from La Plata, without any information in regard to their geological position, no one would have suspected that they had

coexisted

co-existed

with →sea-shells all still living; but as these anomalous monsters

coexisted

co-existed

with the

Masto- don

Mastodon

and Horse, it might at least have been inferred that they had lived during one of the

latter

later

tertiary stages.

When the marine forms of life are spoken of

having changed simultaneously throughout the world, it must not be supposed that this expression relates to the same

year,

thousandth

or →ten-thousandth year, or even that it has a very strict geological sense; for if all the marine animals →now living in Europe, and all those that lived in Europe during the pleistocene period

(an enormously

(a very

remote period as measured by years, including the whole glacial

epoch),

epoch)

were

to be

....

compared with those now

living

existing

in South America or in Australia, the most skilful naturalist would hardly be able to say whether the

existing

present

or the pleistocene inhabitants of Europe resembled most closely those of the southern hemisphere. So, again, several highly competent

observes

observers