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The Age of the World

Moses to Darwin. By Prof. Francis C. Haber. Pp. xi + 303. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1959.) 40s. net.

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  3. The advertisement occurs in a copy of J. J. Berzellus' Mineralogy, translated by J. Black, London, 1814, in the possession of the reviewer.

  4. First published as Supplément 5 to Buffon's Histoire Naturelle (1778). Preliminary results of the experiments were published in Suppléments 1 and 2 (1774) of the Histoire Naturelle.

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EYLES, V. Earth History. Nature 190, 53–55 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/190053a0

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