. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . FERNS FROM THE CARBONIFEROUS 148 GODS TWO BOOKS. CYCLOPHTHALMUS BUCKLANDI A fossil scorpion of thecoal-measures of scorpions skip the Per-mian, Triassic, Jurassic, andCretaceous rocks. We have spoken of theDipnoans, or lung-fishes,that have jumped from theJurassic to the their cousin, the Polyp-terus of the upper Nile,has performed a much morewonderful feat, for his an-cestors are found only in theDevonian rocks. In this heis scarcely alone, for theking-crabs (Limulus) andthe scorpions have come

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. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . FERNS FROM THE CARBONIFEROUS 148 GODS TWO BOOKS. CYCLOPHTHALMUS BUCKLANDI A fossil scorpion of thecoal-measures of scorpions skip the Per-mian, Triassic, Jurassic, andCretaceous rocks. We have spoken of theDipnoans, or lung-fishes,that have jumped from theJurassic to the their cousin, the Polyp-terus of the upper Nile,has performed a much morewonderful feat, for his an-cestors are found only in theDevonian rocks. In this heis scarcely alone, for theking-crabs (Limulus) andthe scorpions have come down unchanged from the Carboniferous rocks, and forgotto leave any fossils in all theintervening ages. And so we might go is hardly a tribefound in the older rockswhich does not have its liv-ing representatives of to-day,and with, we believe, a fairproportion of the speciesidentical, though in hun-dreds, perhaps thousands, ofcases these species, genera,or even whole tribes, havesomehow skipped all the in-tervening formations. Ofcourse they go under differ-ent names in the literature, insects from the carbonif

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