No , it is Couch - grass ! The whole green sward which we see is a single PLANTS . 135.
Gault . 8. A. Catena . ( Sowerby ) .. Marcham ... Calcareous Grit . 9. A. Varians ( Zieten ) .. Geislingen . . Jura limestone . 10. A. Striatus ... ( Reinicke ) . ... Back view of the shell . c . Transverse section of shell .
This view was directly opposed to the doctrine of special creation by God and angered the Church and Victorian public opinion. This volume is a facsimile of one of the original copies sent to the eminent geologist Leonard Horner.
Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, Buckland's Treatise envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation.
The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Palaeontology
This process is described in his Essay on the Theory of the Earth.