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WE have rarely met with a popular work on geology or natural history so crowded with information as Mr. Hutchinson's little volume now before us. In less than 300 pages of large type, all the leading features of the “geological record” are passed in review, with special reference to the mode of reasoning by which the various facts and inferences are established. Nothing of importance seems to be omitted, from the nebular hypothesis and the birth of the moon, to theories of glacial epochs, the permanence of ocean basins, the origin of oolitic structure, and the method of discovering the hidden appendages of trilobites. Some of the sections, indeed, such as those relating to the nebular theory and the nature of geological agents, are seldom found more concisely arranged even in the pages of an examination “cram-book.”
The Autobiography of the Earth.
By the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson Pp. 290. (London: Edward Stanford, 1890.)
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W., A. [Book Reviews]. Nature 43, 365 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043365b0
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