(1869), pt.1.p.4, quoted from Geikie's _Geology_, p.

276, footnote.
[77] Suess also, in his _Anlitz_ etc., substitutes for the folding of the earth's crust by tangential pressure the subsidence by gravity of portions of the crust, their falling in obliging the sea to follow.
Suess also explains the later transgressions of the sea by the progressive accumulation of sediments which raise the level of the sea by their deposition at its bottom.

Thus he believes that the true factor in the deformation of the globe is vertical descent, and not, as Neumayr had previously thought, the folding of the crust.
[78] Bruguiere (1750-1799), a conchologist of great merit.

His descriptions of new species were clear and precise.

In his paper on the coal mines of the mountains of Cevennes (Choix de Memoires d'Hist.