dence. to e species only to  later? tion rary to t C t every living t  abide t t o vaniso t, to evolve). So  to  t be scientific and political value in sending a party to explore terior of Americabeyond t at trepid adventurers sized creatures grazing on teous plains.

    Jefferson’s personal secretary and trusted friend Meriuralist for tion. ted to advise  to look out foro animals living and deceased ar.

    In t, t tocratic and celebrated Cuvier ion t into t ions. illiam Smitruction on tCoal Canal. On tting in a coacion t ually make ation. to interpret rocks,to be some means of correlation, a basis on  t o realize t t every crata certainspecies of fossils disappeared  levels. By noting a, you could  tive ages of rocks o make a map ofBritain’s rock strata, rials in 1815 and one of modern geology. (tory is compreer’s popular book t Cunately, , Smiterested in understanding trata and content myself  it is so,”  come he Province of a Mineral Surveyor.”

    Smition  regarding  strata  ened tinctions. to begin  confirmed t God  creatures not occasionally butrepeatedly. t so mucile. It also made itinconveniently necessary to explain  o succeeding eons. Clearly to extinctions ted for by a single Noacter to isfaction by suggesting t Genesis applied only to t recentinundation. God, it appeared,  ract or alarm Moses  extinctions.

    So by teentury, fossils aken on a certain inescapableimportance, o see tunate. Suddenly, in any case, bones urning up all over. Several otuniti