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YOU are aware that the revival of the half-forgotten ·*· doctrines of the early Scottish School of Geology has not been without vehement protest on the part of the older geologists, who have been inclined to treat them rather as novelties and departures from the older and purer faith. No one resisted them more determinedly than my much-missed friend and benefactor, the late Sir Roderick Murchison. He looked with regret, and even, perhaps, sometimes with a little alarm, upon their advance, and to the last he battled against them. He was, indeed, in this country the leader of his party, which has been called the “Convulsionist School,“and his death has, doubtless, been a severe blow to that school, as it has been a loss to all who admired a straightforward, courteous, and undaunted antagonist.
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Earth-Sculpture * . Nature 9, 89–91 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/009089a0
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