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The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2 / First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic Remains — Gideon Algernon Mantell

The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2 / First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic Remains

Gideon Algernon Mantell

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 825 pages

The Medals of Creation is a two-volume collection of essays by Gideon Algernon Mantell on geology and the study of organic remains. Using fossils as medals of past worlds, it introduces readers to the strata of Earth's history and the changes of life upon it. It is worth listening to as a Victorian account of fossils and geological change.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. MEDALS OF CREATION.
  2. LIST OF LIGNOGRAPHS IN VOL. II.
  3. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  4. CHAPTER XII.
  5. CHAPTER XIII.
  6. CHAPTER XIV.
  7. CHAPTER XV.
  8. CHAPTER XVI.
  9. CHAPTER XVII.
  10. CHAPTER XVIII.
  11. CHAPTER XIX.
  12. RETROSPECT.
  13. APPENDIX TO PART III.
  14. PART IV.
  15. CHAPTER XX.
  16. CHAPTER XXI.
  17. CHAPTER XXII.
  18. CHAPTER XXIII.
  19. CHAPTER XXIV.
  20. CHAPTER XXV.
  21. MISCELLANEOUS.
  22. GENERAL INDEX.
  23. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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