A POPULAR VIEW

OF

SOME OF THE GRAND CONCLUSIONS OF THE SCIENCES

IN REFERENCE TO

THE HISTORY OF MATTER AND OF LIFE.

TOGETHER WITH

A STATEMENT OF THE INTIMATIONS OF SCIENCE RESPECTING THE
PRIMORDIAL CONDITION AND THE ULTIMATE DESTINY

OF THE EARTH AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM.

BY ALEXANDER WINCHELL, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, AND BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN,
AND DIRECTOR OF THE STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

With Ellustrations.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

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THE MEMORY OF THREE SWEET NAMES,

JULIE, STELLA, AND ALLY,

ONCE BLENDED WITH THE LABORS OF THE STUDY AND THE LABOR

ATORY-THE INSPIRATION OF HIGH AMBITION

AND SUSTAINING HOPE,

NOW ADOPTED IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANGELS,

THESE CHAPTERS ARE

AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.