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Geological Changes of Level

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IN a most friendly notice in your last issue of the Memoirs forming the first volume of the official Report of the Challenger Expedition, Prof. Huxley takes exception to a sentence in my short Introduction. “There seems to be sufficient evidence that all changes of level since the close of the Palæozoic period are in direct relation to the present coast lines,” and he asks in what possible sense this can be the case.

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