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IT is refreshing to turn from the ordinary text-books of science—useful and necessary as such works undoubtedly are to a booklet like that now before us. Science manuals in their efforts after inclusion and compression, in order to meet the wants of examination candidates, tend to become dogmatic in their teachings, and the student is led to rely on the authority of the teacher rather than on any process of reasoning; of such works we must sadly confess “the trail of the examiner is over them all.”
The Changeful Earth: an Introduction to the Record of the Rocks.
(Readable Books in Natural Knowledge.) By Prof. G. A. J. Cole. Pp. x + 223. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 1s. 6d.
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J., J. The Changeful Earth: an Introduction to the Record of the Rocks . Nature 88, 37–38 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088037b0
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