Transcribe Ward series of casts of fossils (check list), 1870

"Geology, although it cannot prove that other planets are filled with appropriate

races of living beings, has demonstrated the truth of conclusions scarcely less wonderful: - the existence on our own planet of so many habitable surfaces or worlds as they have been called, each distinct in time, and peoples with its peculiar races of aquatic and terrestrial beings."

                                                                               SIR CHARLES LYELL.