The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-26
TURES IN NEW YORK.
DR.. AntiselPs Lecture on Geology The
ReptiliaR Pc Rod and Modern Agencies.


Reptllian Pc Rod and Modern Agencies.
Dr. Antise delivered lecture last evening, at Oin-
ton Hall, The Reptilian Period and Modern
Agencies He described the condition Of the sand
stone during the reptan period, and stated that i'm
pressions- sometimes Of human hand had been made
upon It, when in q soft condition He infinitely des-
ciibed the remains Of various reptiles which had been
found in this strata and which belonged the lizard
class The absence Of material bone in those reptiles
was gee arrangement, and which still pre-
served in the present day In similar aninsls. There
PERIOD the deposition Of the red Zone not i'm
roIerly termed the Ieptiiian psri/d Reptiles Of
gion.; but taking them altogether genus they wee
fast disappearing from the face q the earth Dr. Au
tise then referred to bis diagrams and described
particularly the ichthyosauJus and the other lizard
Tribes He then considered the beds Of chalk and their
formation, and the beds of rivers and estusrss He
explained the principle OF the altesan wells resulting
fem the forcing down Of the water which had
the earth, and where 1t passed into bed of basin
shape and where 1t could be collected again by ord
nary bydrostatic pressure chalk bed q stiff bed,
and when the rain fell upon It, 1t sunk through Its
face. The amount Of rain which annually fell in this
the surface TIT way in which the got rid
of was by it's rolling down to the river streams evapo
.sSn ey 1t. u.. BY man and the aaims; and y IT,
particular course through different forms of strata aud
be alluded to the warm spriugs in France and China,
caused by the depth of the in the earth In these
tertiary beds other animals had been found bearing
resemblance to the horse and the Of the day
The lecturer sllued to race Of birds found century
back in the Mauritius and the southern coast Of
America, which he'd become extinct through crcum-
stances affecting theii mode of living and pointed to
this fact analogy with the extinction Of ths
Of animals during much earlier periods, ard In
measure 1t afforded explsnstion-the contiguty Of
these animals to the sea shore and their inability to move
to the subject Of tim.o In reference to geological
science The Falls Of Niagara gradually recsdng
at the rate Of foot in year and 1t would take 80 900
TO traner the fss to where they were from
the place where they stood at Lewston then how
long would 1t take to form rocks eight miles thick
ne.s! These circumstances were connected with the
globe ITSELF but when they looked to the psuets and
TO asiror omcal science hat spaces Of time there
developed The earth was no doubt ut ous time heat
ed and In soft state and had been, and COOL
Ing and consolidating The lecturer then adverted to
that it must be exploded Ro.ss telescope had defined
them into stars the earth therefore, could not have
We not in possession of the beginning point of the
creation, no moro than of the termination of It
Therefore 1t was only with the middle portion that
could deal The DR.. exhibited q oolorci drawing Of
the planet Mars, as seen through Rosss telescope,
and exhibited its similarity Of structure % that
OF the earth At the north and south pole. there
were formations Of ice, sad Ia the south pole
large ocean and doubt 1t wa, fitted for purposes
similar to those Of the earth The also under
similar Influences being colder at the poles than ct the
equator this was proved by taking daguerrotype like
when observed hat the centre OF the figure
sutng from the greater influence Of the .un centre
equator, than at Its psles The spots the too,
being caused by currents OF air passing through its Luz
minous atmosphere and which generally proxinats
to its equator where such currents arise In the Of
earth, another proof The ALEC sradu
ally cooling al the earth and ultimately the re-
between these bodies would undergo such changes
as to render this globe uninhabtable to race like US
The orbits Of the stars were much greater than h:t OF
the earth. One OF the stars In the constellation Urea
Major, performed It's revolution in one hundred and
ninety thoufand Of years Gould be supposea that
IL was made only for one revolution! And 1t was infu
by the attractive forces of the neghborng bodies
Again The revolution OF two stars round each other
was equal to million Of years. The whole Of the uni
verse moved not around central SUM- as had been
jectured but round q central space The light Of one
Of tho Orion took thirty thousand years to res,h
us travelling IL did at inoonceivabl rate The
eccnce Of geology therefore required not much time
for the fulhment OF It's representations that OF
astronomy The Doctor then referred to the present
state of the neon Its once volcanic state the absence of
any material atme sphere, and TO the intense cold
must prevail In that panet-it observed contain
ice 1t wss well established that the degree of heat the
earth received depended the depth Of its
the less atmosphere above the less heat received
The earth was colder than during the period of the
carbonerous deposits. Our could only occupy tbs
earth for limited period as other animals had done
The lecturer closed his dtcourse amid much applause
from an intelligent and attentive audience