Note AA — Chapter V
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This prediction has been already more than accomplished. At the death of Cuvier, in 1832, there were but ninety-two species of fossil fish known to the geologist; Agassiz now enumerates one hundred and five species that belong to the Old Red Sandstone alone; and if we include doubtful species, on which he has not authoritatively decided—some of which, however, were included in the list of Cuvier—one hundred and fifty-one.