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This work deals with comprehensive descriptions of fossil shells, poisonous fossils, birds, Mammalia, Reptiles, Remarks on plants and medicinal plants from India and abroad, Experimental researches in electricity, metallic poisonous substance upon vegetation on the chemical relations now subsisting between plants and animals with reference to those which have subsisted in former ages, analysis of sugar cane and to the manufacturing of sugar. It is not an idle task to cast a retrospective glance to ages for beyond human ken, or to try to discover the physical and chemical causes which then regulated the production and maintenance of animals and vegetables life. The author has drawn legitimate conclusions, from the order of their occurrence, regarding several grand eras in the history of the world. These inferences have been deduced from external characters possessed by animals and plants, occurring particulars of formations, and by the application of analogical reasoning he has shown what must have been the aspect of the fact of nature when these plants and animals existed. The whole work is done by the renowned and authorities on the subjects, so it will be very useful to the researchers, scientists working in the field of Agriculture, Botany, Forestry, Geology, Engineering, Physical sciences, Zoology and other allied subjects.
