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The Medals of Creation, or First Lessons in Geology, and the Study of Organic Remains, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing Fossil Vegetables, Zoophytes, Echinoderms, and Molluscs
Excerpt from The Medals of Creation, or First Lessons in Geology, and the Study of Organic Remains
With this conviction the present volumes are Offered, with such modifications of the original plan as circumstances have rendered necessary, as a guide for the Student and the Amateur Collector of fossil remains; for the intelligent Observer who may desire to possess a general knowledge of the subject, without intending to pursue Geology as a science; and for the Tourist who may wish, in the course of his travels, to employ profitably a leisure hour in quest of those interesting memorials Of the ancient physical revolutions of our globe, which he will find everywhere presented to his observation.
With this conviction the present volumes are Offered, with such modifications of the original plan as circumstances have rendered necessary, as a guide for the Student and the Amateur Collector of fossil remains; for the intelligent Observer who may desire to possess a general knowledge of the subject, without intending to pursue Geology as a science; and for the Tourist who may wish, in the course of his travels, to employ profitably a leisure hour in quest of those interesting memorials Of the ancient physical revolutions of our globe, which he will find everywhere presented to his observation.
496 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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Gideon Algernon Mantell
134 books2 followersEnglish obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist.
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