Open-Air Studies: an Introduction to Geology Out-of-doors

Abstract

PROF. GRENVILLE COLE has already won himself wide repute as a writer on geological science by his book, entitled “Aids in Practical Geology” (Griffin and Co.). There Prof. Cole treated the branches of mineralogy, petrology, and palæontology, dwelling more particularly on methods of work in laboratory and museum. This recent publication, “Open-Air Studies,” breathes another atmosphere, lighter, gayer, and for the popular mind more enticing. The Professor leads his readers, like a class of students, into one countryside after another, makes use in imagination of bicycle and railway on the low ground, ascends boldly into glacier-swept regions, and roams at will across moorland and highland Everywhere he directs their powers of observation, drills great facts into them by presenting particular aspects again and again as occasion offers. Now and then the Professor calls a halt to recapitulate, set in order, or give more careful demonstration of stratigraphical difficulties.

Open-Air Studies: an Introduction to Geology Out-of-doors.

With illustrations. By Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole., &c. Pp. viii + 322. (London: Griffin and Co., Limited, 1895.)