A comparatively small variety of species is found in the older rocks, although of some particular ones the remains are very abundant;...Ascending to the next group of rocks, we find the traces of life become more abundant, the number of species extended.


Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), 60–1

Robert Chambers Quotes

A comparatively small variety of species is found in the older rocks, although of some particular ones the remains are very abundant;...Ascending to...

A comparatively small variety of species is found in the older rocks, although of some particular ones the remains are very abundant;...Ascending to...

A comparatively small variety of species is found in the older rocks, although of some particular ones the remains are very abundant;...Ascending to...

A comparatively small variety of species is found in the older rocks, although of some particular ones the remains are very abundant;...Ascending to...