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IN the fifty years since this journal began, the progress in geology has kept pace with that of the other natural sciences. In regard to them, in an article contributed to the first volume, I wrote of what had been done and what yet required to be done for their study in Cambridge, where I was then resident, and whither I have since returned. The changes may almost be called a transformation. The museums and laboratories, though the supply is not yet quite equal to the demand, far surpass what we desired in those early days, and the class-list of the Natural Sciences Tripos, instead of containing about a dozen names, had risen before the war to fully 130. The same is true of the other older universities, while more than as many, non-existent fifty years ago, are now busily engaged in educating natural science students.
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BONNEY, T. The Expansion of Geology. Nature 104, 203–204 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104203a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104203a0