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WHILE, in his efforts to arrive at an estimate of geological time, the geologist himself is seriously hampered by the uncertainty of the data at his disposal, he has followed with expectant interest the successive attempts made by votaries of kindred sciences to attain the solution of a problem so fascinating. It is true that past efforts in this direction have taught us to expect at the hest a merely approximate result, by whatever method this problem may be attacked; at the same time, every attempt is welcome which shall tend to more narrowly limit the margin of approximation. In the important treatise before us, Prof. Joly proposes a novel and ingenious method of approaching this difficult question, and if his argument relies for its success on a considerable basis of assumption, he has nevertheless arrived at results of striking interest.
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The Geological Age of the Earth 1 . Nature 62, 235–237 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062235a0
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