Note 14 — Chapter II
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In the present state of our knowledge, this arrangement is of great utility, but it will probably require considerable modification, and must, perhaps, hereafter be abandoned; for it cannot be doubted, that strata in which no recent species have yet been found, may yield them to more accurate and extended observations, and those in which only a few recent species are associated with a large number of extinct forms, may have these proportions reversed.
[15] From πλειων, pleion, more; and καινος, kainos, recent.
[16] From μεἱων, meion, less, and recent.
[17] From ἠως, eos, the dawn or commencement, and recent.