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For accounts of the views of Mazaurier and Scheuchzer, see Cuvier; also Buchner, Man in Past, Present, and Future, English translation, pp.
235, 236.
For Increase Mather's views, see Philosophical Transactions, vol.xxiv, p.85.As to similar fossils sent from New York to the Royal Society as remains of giants, see Weld, History of the Royal Society, vol.i, p.421.For Father Torrubia and his Gigantologia Espanola, see D'Archiac, Introduction a l'Etude de la Paleontologie Stratigraphique, Paris, 1864, p.201.For admirable summaries, see Lyell, Principles of Geology, London, 1867; D'Archiac, Geologie et Paleontologie, Paris, 1866; Pictet, Traite de Paleontologie, Paris, 1853; Vezian, Prodrome de la Geologie, Paris, 1863; Haeckel, History of Creation, English translation, New York, 1876, chap.
iii; and for recent progress, Prof.O.S.
Marsh's Address on the History and Methods of Paleontology. In the midst all this came an episode very comical but very instructive; for it shows that the attempt to shape the deductions of science to meet the exigencies of dogma may mislead heterodoxy as absurdly as orthodoxy. About the year 1760 news of the discovery of marine fossils in various elevated districts of Europe reached Voltaire.
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