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GEOLOGY, being such a many-sided science, is especially handicapped in regard to textbooks. It is provided with a library of books dealing with its various subdivisions and aspects, but the provision of an up-to-date manual which deals with the whole range of the subject in about a thousand pages, and of the standard required by students in higher technical schools and by those taking geology as a secondary subject in universities, is a perennial difficulty. Specialisation in geology has gone so far that it is becoming impossible for any one author to deal with the whole science in the detail required in such a work. The new text-book of geology by Profs. Pirsson and Schuchert, with chapters by Profs. Barrell and Lull and Dr. Ulrich, show the effort to overcome this difficulty by joint authorship. That method has its own drawbacks, for it is very difficult thus to secure that unity of view and uniformity of standard which are indispensable in an educational text-book.
A Text-book of Geology.
By Prof. L. V. Pirsson Prof. C. Schuchert. Part i., Physical Geology. By Prof. L. V. Pirsson. Pp. vii + 444. Price 10s. net. Part ii., Historical Geology. By Prof. C. Schuchert. Pp. vi + 405-1026. Price 12s. net. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1915.)
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G., J. A Text-book of Geology . Nature 98, 206–207 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098206a0
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