Abstract
IT would be most unfair to compare the work before us with any of the numerous treatises on geological science which have during recent years made their appearance in England, Germany, and France. The author's aim, as defined in his preface, has been not so much to give a well-proportioned summary of the ascertained facts of the science, as to prepare an historical and critical review of the ideas that have been put forward concerning the fundamental principles of geology. To find a parallel to the present essay, indeed, we should have to go back to the “Philosophic der Geologic” of Vogelsang, or even to the works of Lyell and Von Hoff.
Theoretische Geologie.
Von Dr. E. Reyer der Geologie an der Universität Wien. (Stuttgart, E. Schweitzerbart'sche Verlagshandlung, 1888.)
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J., J. Theoretical Geology . Nature 38, 409–410 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038409a0
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