Elementary Geology ¹

Abstract

IF a new elementary text-book of geology is really in request, no better author could be found than the president of the Geological Society of London for 1905. We venture to prefer this work to his some¬what similar “Agricultural Geology,” and hope that candidates for a diploma in agriculture will now make use of both. The author, while engaged upon his task, appears to be absolutely devoid of the emotion which “nature-study” provokes in other men in various measure, and his introduction, if a little cold, should lead to accurate observation and understanding. The photographic illustrations are refreshingly large, and include successfully the forms of familiar fossils and even of flint implements. Four pins fixed in a dull white wall would, however, have served as a more satisfactory support for a helpless belemnite than the operating table and other apparatus displayed in Fig. 29. The striking relic of a Triassic land-surface, photographed by Prof. H. E. Armstrong (Fig. 27), is here reproduced, as an example of the admirable landscapes in this volume.