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CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAPTER XV. PERIODS OF CREATION AND

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PLATES. XV. Hypothetical Sketch of the

CHAPTER XV. PERIODS OF CREATION AND RECORDS OF CREATION.

CHAPTER XVI. PEDIGREE AND HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF THE PROTISTA.

CHAPTER XVII. PEDIGREE AND HISTORY OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM.

CHAPTER XVIII. PEDIGREE AND HISTORY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. I. Animal-Plants and Worms.

CHAPTER XIX. PEDIGREE AND HISTORY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. II.

CHAPTER XX. PEDIGREE AND HISTORY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. III. Vertebrate Animals.

CHAPTER XXI. PEDIGREE AND HISTORY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. IV. Mammals.

CHAPTER XXII. ORIGIN AND PEDIGREE OF MAN.

CHAPTER XXIII. MIGRATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MANKIND. HUMAN SPECIES AND HUMAN RACES.

CHAPTER XXIV. OBJECTIONS AGAINST, AND PROOFS OF THE TRUTH OF, THE THEORY OF DESCENT.

FOOTNOTES:

LIST OF THE WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT BY FIGURES, THUS -1

APPENDIX. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. Plate facing Title-page.

INDEX.

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THE HISTORY OF CREATION.

THE
HISTORY OF CREATION:

OR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARTH AND ITS
INHABITANTS BY THE ACTION OF NATURAL CAUSES

A POPULAR EXPOSITION OF
THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION IN GENERAL, AND OF THAT OF
DARWIN, GOETHE, AND LAMARCK IN PARTICULAR.

FROM THE GERMAN OF
ERNST HAECKEL,
PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF JENA.

THE TRANSLATION REVISED BY
E. RAY LANKESTER, M.A., F.R.S.,
FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
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