...Mr. G. Poulett Scrope, with respect chiefly to volcanic and plutonic action, and secondly, but from a wider induction by Sir C. Lyell — they are sufficient...both has been already adverted to. According to the principle of the adequacy of Existing Causes, therefore, we must conclude that the fall of Meteorites...

...Mr. G. Poulett Scrope, with respect chiefly to volcanic and plutonic action, and secondly, but from a wider induction by Sir C. Lyell — they are sufficient...constitution. The characteristic presence of iron in both has heen already adverted to. According to the principle of the adequacy of Existing Causes, therefore,...

...|| Read February 25, 1802 ; published in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' for tha t year, part 1. that of the fall of Meteorites upon it, by which its...elementary constitution, being chiefly those chemical elementa which are present in the greatest quantity in the Earth's crust, and seem to be most essential...

...In«itution in 1841, as reprinted in Phil. Mag., third scries, vol. xii. p. 501, with addition, P. ме. that of the fall of Meteorites upon it, by which its magnitude is augmentai, and that by the addition of materials homogeneous with those of its existing elementary...

...theory now announced. It is remarked, in support of this theory of the formation of the planets, that the only known phenomenon in which the process of...is augmented, and that by the addition of materials homogenous with those of its existing elementary composition, being chiefly those chemical elements...