The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology

pubOne.info present you this new edition. That application of the sciences of biology and geology, which is commonly known as palaeontology, took its origin in the mind of the first person who, finding something like a shell, or a bone, naturally imbedded in gravel or rock, indulged in speculations upon the nature of this thing which he had dug out— this “fossil”— and upon the causes which had brought it into such a position. In this rudimentary form, a high antiquity may safely be ascribed to p