LIFE ON THE EARTH

ITS

ORIGIN AND SUCCESSION.

BY

JOHN PHILLIPS, M.A. LL.D. F.R.S.

LATE PRESIDENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

MACMILLAN AND CO.

Cambridge:

AND 23, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN,

London.
1860.

188.4.13.

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TO THE HON. AND REV.

LATIMER NEVILLE, M.A.,

VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

THIS VOLUME

WHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF THE REDE LECTURE,

DELIVERED UNDER HIS AUSPICES IN MAY, 1860,

IS BY PERMISSION

MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.