. Relics of primeval life, beginning of life in the dawn of geological time. various associatedminerals. An extensive series of notes and cameratracings were made of all the appearances observed ;and of some of the more important structuresbeautiful drawings were executed by the late S. Smith, the then palaeontological draughtsmanof the Survey. The result of the whole investigationwas a firm conviction that the structure was organicand probably foraminiferal, and that it could bedistinguished from any merely mineral or crystallineforms occurring in these or other limestones. At this stag
. Relics of primeval life, beginning of life in the dawn of geological time. various associatedminerals. An extensive series of notes and cameratracings were made of all the appearances observed ;and of some of the more important structuresbeautiful drawings were executed by the late S. Smith, the then palaeontological draughtsmanof the Survey. The result of the whole investigationwas a firm conviction that the structure was organicand probably foraminiferal, and that it could bedistinguished from any merely mineral or crystallineforms occurring in these or other limestones. At this stage of the matter, and after exhibitingto Sir William all the characteristic appearancesin comparison with such concretionary, dendritic,and crystalline structures as most resembled them,and also with the structure of recent and fossilForaminifera, I suggested that the further prosecu-tion of the matter should be handed over to , as palaeontologist of the Survey, and asour highest authority on the fossils of the olderrocks. I was engaged in other researches, and. Fig. 30.—Casts of Canals of Eozoon, in and highly magnified.
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