III-13. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States," vol. 1, p. 130; and American Journal of Science, July, 1860, p. 143.
III-14. North American Review for April 1860, p. 506.
III-15. Vide motto from Butler, prefixed to the second edition of Darwin's work.
III-16. North American Review, loc. cit., p. 504.
III-17. North American Review, loc. cit., p. 487, et passim.
III-18. In American Journal of Science, July, 1860, p. 143.
III-19. Vide article by Mr. C. Wright, in the Mathematical Monthly for May last.
III-20. Vide Edinburgh Review for January, 1860, article on
"Acclimatization," etc.
III-21. American Journal of Science, July, 1860, p. 146.
IV-1. A name which, at the close of his article, De Candolle proposes for the study of the succession of organized beings, to comprehend, therefore, palaeontology and all included under what is called geographical botany and zoology—the whole forming a science parallel to geology—the latter devoted to the history of unorganized bodies, the former, to that of organized beings, as respects origin, distribution, and succession. We are not satisfied with the word, notwithstanding the precedent of palaeontology; since ontology, the Science of being, has an established meaning as referring to mental existence—i.e., is a synonym for a department of metaphysics.