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The Geological Calculus

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MR. WALLACE'S essay, completed in NATURE, NO. 18, brings to the front the question whether or no we can measure the Geological Past by the historical unit of years. Have we any basis for fixing with any certainty the date of any geological epoch? Mr. Wallace's answer in the affirmative to this is worthy of a careful analysis, because it represents fairly the ideas current in the minds of many geologists.

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DAWKINS, W. The Geological Calculus. Nature 1, 505–506 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001505a0

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