Chapter X: Fossil Remains--The Museum

Recapitulation--Scope of our Argument--Theory of Stratified
Rocks the Framework of Geological Science--This Theory
brings Geology into Contact with Revelation--The Line of Reasoning
hitherto pursued confirmed by the Testimony of Fossil
Remains--Meaning of the Word Fossil--Inexhaustible Abundance
of Fossils--Various States of Preservation--Petrifaction--Experiments
of Professor Göppert--Organic Rocks afford
some Insight into the Fossil World--The Reality and Significance
of Fossil Remains must be learned from Observation--The
British Museum--Colossal Skeletons--Bones and Shells of
Animals--Fossil Plants and Trees, 156