New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-18
Hs6 Orleans 1aiIp Crtstsnt.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY Is, 1858.



DR.. Boynton gave bis seventh lecture on geology,
last night, at Armory Hall his audience being, as
usual notable for its size and intelligent appearance
The subject of this lecture was the cretaceous or
chaky period in the history Of the earhs formation
"a subject sufficiently interesting, it brought the
lecturer to the consideration OF animals more gigantic
in size and wondrous in other respects than any
previously discoursed Of His account of the guano-
don, derived from the fossil remains Of the animal,
and from the light of comparative anatomy, was
highly interesting. He showed that it was mon
strous reptile, Of the lizard family something like
the iguana Of the present age, though hundred
times larger an animal whose teeth proved that it
lived exclusively upon vegetation and whose size
great, that il it ever stood erect on its legs,
soldier might shoulder arms underneath its body
without touching tits length being great in pro-
portion, according to its iizardlike formation.
The lecturer careful to keep it before his hear
ers he did in his previous lectures that the DIFF
/ fe7ent animals found embedded in the rocks, and
which in some respects similar to each other
or to animals now existing, were not mongrel or
cross breed animals, but each distinct creation
they were not Of the same species, but different
species belonging to genus, one tribe family Of
created things. The consideration Of the tooth of
the iguanodon led the lecturer into an interesting
diversion upon comparative anatomy. This science
disclosed system, series of unalterable laws, in
| the organization of animals, by which fossil bones
could be made TO tell the history and characteristics
Of the animal when it lived as clearly and admirably
as the rocks tell the history of the earth. 5.
The lecturer illustrated the beauty of the animal
architecture and its different designs of adaptation to
circumstances and modes of life, by describing the
squirrel, which created to live ON nuts 1t s pro
yided with claws, that it may climb the tree its fore
claws, hands, being so constructed as to hold the
nut when obtained firmly to its teeth whilst its hinder
anatomy is such that it may sit upright; its teett
sharp needless that it may gnaw through the shel
of the nut; and its masticatory apparatus so con
structed that the ncsor teeth are blunted by the
task the masticaton Of the food by the other teeti
brings them tbe incisors) together in such manne
that they are whetted or sharpened for labor.
number Of paintings were exhibited, in illustration o
the lecture, and the audience altogether were mucl
gratifed.
After the lecture, Dr. Boynton exhibited and ex
planned the great painting, The Court Of Death, J.,
to his audience 1t was by means the least part
the evenings entertainment,
This afternoon Dr. Boynton is to give his los
lecture to the school children and ladies', and a
night the last of his regular to the public Tn
great painting is to be exhibited and explained at tn
close of each, without extra charge. The lectur
being the last will be the crowning one Of the series