But I for one, and many others, utterly reject any such belief.

Already three or four piles of unconformable strata are known beneath the Cambrian; and these are generally in a crystalline condition, and may once have been charged with organic remains.
With regard to animals and plants, the locomotive spores of some algae, furnished with cilia, would have been ranked with animals if it had not been known that they developed into algae.
LETTER 312.

TO JOHN COLLIER.

Down, February 16th, 1882.
I must thank you for the gift of your Art Primer, which I have read with much pleasure.

Parts were too technical for me who could never draw a line, but I was greatly interested by the whole of the first part.