The Appearance Of The Bones Of Quadrupeds,

At The Sight Of A Single Bone, Of A Single Piece Of Bone, I Recognize And Reconstruct The Portion Of The Whole From Which It Would Have Been Taken. The Whole Being To Which This Fragment Belonged Appears In My Mind's Eye.

It Is My Object, In The Following Work, To Travel Over Ground Which Has As Yet Been Little Explored And To Make My Reader Acquainted With A Species Of Remains, Which, Though Absolutely Necessary For Understanding The History Of The Globe, Have Been Hitherto Almost Uniformly Neglected.

The Traces Of Upheavals Become More Impressive When One Moves A Little Higher, When One Gets Even Closer To The Foot Of The Great Mountain Ranges. There Are Still Plenty Of Shell Layers. We Notice Them, Even Thicker And More Solid Ones.

The Works Which This Man [joseph Banks] Leaves Behind Him Occupy A Few Pages Only; Their Importance Is Not Greatly Superior To Their Extent; And Yet His Name Will Shine Out With Lustre In The History Of The Sciences.

It Is In This Mutual Dependence Of The Functions And The Aid Which They Reciprocally Lend One Another That Are Founded The Laws Which Determine The Relations Of Their Organs And Which Possess A Necessity Equal To That Of Metaphysical Or Mathematical Laws, Since It Is Evident That The Seemly Harmony Between Organs Which Interact Is A Necessary Condition Of Existence Of The Creature To Which They Belong And That If One Of These Functions Were Modified In A Manner Incompatible With The Modifications Of The Others The Creature Could No Longer Continue To Exist.