Outlines of an Attempt to Establish a Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils on Scientific Principles, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Excerpt from Outlines of an Attempt to Establish a Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils on Scientific Principles, Vol. 1 of 2

The study of extraneous fossfis is confiessedly zuseful to she Geologist - edit enables him to distin guish the relative ages of the various'strata, which compose the surfaoe'of our globe; and to explain, (in: some degree, the processes of nature, in the formation of the mineral world - To the Botanist and %oologist, an investigation, which leads to the knowledge of organic 'forrns no longer found in a recent state, must always prove interesting And the causes, that have operated to produce the distinctions existing between plants and animais of the present'day,'and those of former unknown ages, offer, to every contemplative mind, aninexhaust able source of rational enquiry.

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