“...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water .... That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.” BelieveFactsSidesWaterLinesCommonOceanSpeciesAncientFishesRemarkableExplorationShellsCoastBoth SidesContinuityDeep WaterOcean ExplorationGreenlandMollusks Book:The Natural History of the European Seas... Source: The Natural History of the European Seas...
“Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.” WellsSpaceExistenceTeachOceanResearchRemainsSpeciesPhenomenonExplorationDefiniteExhibitsProvincesCentralizationOcean ExplorationGeological TimeGeologic Time Book:The Natural History of the European Seas... Source: The Natural History of the European Seas...
