On the other hand, Geikie observes that it must be acknowledged "that Guettard does not seem to have had any clear ideas of the sequence of formations and of geological structures." [84] Scheuchzer's "Complaint and Vindication of the Fishes" (_Piscium Querelae et Vindiciae_, Germany, 1708), "a work of zooelogical merit, in which he gave some good plates and descriptions of fossil fish" (Lyell).
Gesner's treatise on petrefactions preceded Lamarck's work in this direction, as did Brander's _Fossillia Hantoniensia_, published in 1766, which contained "excellent figures of fossil shells from the more modern (or Eocene) marine strata of Hampshire.

In his opinion fossil animals and testacea were, for the most part, of unknown species, and of such as were known the living analogues now belonged to southern latitudes" (Lyell's _Principles_, eighth edition, p.

46).
[85] _Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle_, vi., 1805, pp.

222-228.
[86] _Recueil de Planches des Coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris_ (Paris, 1823).

There are added two plates of fossil fresh-water shells (twenty-one species of Limnaea, etc.) by Brard, with sixty-two figures.
[87] _Cuvier et Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.