Written in 1893 as a closing statement by the Canadian geologist Sir John William Dawson, these chapters take up the starting-point of the earth’s history, world-making, the imperfection of the geological record, the history of the North Atlantic, the coal measures of Nova Scotia and their early land animals, and other great questions of geology and the history of life.
A great field geologist’s summing-up; his resistance to Darwinian evolution reflects his own convictions of the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.