Reply to some observations in Dr. Fleming's 'Remarks on the distribution of British animals' / [William Buckland].

  • Buckland, William, 1784-1856
Date:
[1825?]
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Credit: Reply to some observations in Dr. Fleming's 'Remarks on the distribution of British animals' / [William Buckland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPLY TO SOME OBSERVATIONS IN DR FLEMING’S REMARKS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF BRITISH ANIMALS, By Professor BUCKLAND, From the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal- Allow me, through the medium of your Journal, to ex¬ press my obligations to Dr Fleming, for the handsome manner in which he has spoken of my Reliquiae Diluviana, in your last Number; and for the mild and gentlemanly tone he has main¬ tained, whilst expressing his opinions on certain points whereon he differs from me. I perfectly coincide with that eminent naturalist, as to the ex¬ pediency and the necessity of illustrating the history of the Fossil World, by the analogies afforded by the structure and habits of living plants and animals, and the operations of nature now passing before us; but I see not how the charge of neglecting all these things can, with propriety, be advanced by him, against the present cultivators of the science of geology, whose foundation-stone (as far as relates to the history of fossil animals) is laid by Cuvier on the most accurate analysisof the structure of recent skeletons, from which he argues most rigidly, as to that of the fossil species*; nor • J’ai done du me preparer a ces recherches, par des recherches bien plus longues suf les animaux exi stans ; une revue presque generate de la creation actuelle pou*