Charles Lyell and Modern Geology (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. EIGHT YEARS OF QUIET PROGRESS. Both courses of lectures ended* and the third volume of the "Principles" successfully launched, Mr. and Mrs. Lyell left London in June, 1833, for another Continental tour. During their first halt, at Paris, she was duly introduced to the famous quarries of Montmartre, and had an opportunity of "collecting a fossil shell or two for the first time." Thence they made their way to Bonn, which she had left as a bride the previous summer, and, after another short halt, proceeded up the gorge of the Rhine to Bingen, visiting on the way the ironworks at Sayn, and examining the stratified volcanic deposits on the plain between the river and that town. The Tertiary basin at Mayence was next visited, and from it they went leisurely to Heidelberg. From the picturesque old town by the Neckar they struck off to Stuttgart and to Pappenheim, examining one or two collections at the former place, and the quarries of Solenhofen, near the latter. These were already noted for the abundant and well-preserved fossils obtained in the quarries worked for the well-known "lithographic stone," though the famous Archaeopteryx had yet to be found; that strange creature, feathered and like a bird, but with teeth in its beak and a tail like a reptile, which has supplied such an important link in the chain of evidence in favour of progressive develop * At King's College and at the Royal Institution. See pp. 71, 72. ment. Thence they - travelled to Niirnberg and Bayrenth, visiting on theu"-way the noted caves at Muggendorf, and returned /to'Jonn by way of Bamberg, Wiirtzburg, Aschaffenb'er-g;. and Frankfurt. In this journey, few localities of special interest were investigated, but, as Lyell's letters sh'cw no opportunity was...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. EIGHT YEARS OF QUIET PROGRESS. Both courses of lectures ended* and the third volume of the "Principles" successfully launched, Mr. and Mrs. Lyell left London in June, 1833, for another Continental tour. During their first halt, at Paris, she was duly introduced to the famous quarries of Montmartre, and had an opportunity of "collecting a fossil shell or two for the first time." Thence they made their way to Bonn, which she had left as a bride the previous summer, and, after another short halt, proceeded up the gorge of the Rhine to Bingen, visiting on the way the ironworks at Sayn, and examining the stratified volcanic deposits on the plain between the river and that town. The Tertiary basin at Mayence was next visited, and from it they went leisurely to Heidelberg. From the picturesque old town by the Neckar they struck off to Stuttgart and to Pappenheim, examining one or two collections at the former place, and the quarries of Solenhofen, near the latter. These were already noted for the abundant and well-preserved fossils obtained in the quarries worked for the well-known "lithographic stone," though the famous Archaeopteryx had yet to be found; that strange creature, feathered and like a bird, but with teeth in its beak and a tail like a reptile, which has supplied such an important link in the chain of evidence in favour of progressive develop * At King's College and at the Royal Institution. See pp. 71, 72. ment. Thence they - travelled to Niirnberg and Bayrenth, visiting on theu"-way the noted caves at Muggendorf, and returned /to'Jonn by way of Bamberg, Wiirtzburg, Aschaffenb'er-g;. and Frankfurt. In this journey, few localities of special interest were investigated, but, as Lyell's letters sh'cw no opportunity was...

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May 2014

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246 x 189 x 6mm (L x W x T)

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108

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978-0-217-45771-2

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9780217457712

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