 | 1858 - 518 pages
...sometimes far from being fully appreciated. It is really immense ; for its objects are to investigate the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of Nature from the present time, as far as we can trace back into the vista of ages. The complete study(of a... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 pages
...order. Its historical element is regarded by Ly ell as so prominent that he defines geology simply as " the science which investigates the successive changes...in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature." — In the present article little more will be attempted than to present a general sketch of the history... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...compose the earth, and of the organic remains which they contain. According to Sir Charles Lyell, " Geology is the science which investigates the successive...inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influences which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet."... | |
 | 1865 - 484 pages
...laying of the foundations of the earth. Lyell is said to be modest ; let us see what he proposes : — " Geology is the science which investigates the successive...into the causes of these changes, and the influence they have exerted in modifying the external structure of our planet." It is getting worse and worse,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1867 - 746 pages
...SCIENCES NOT TO BE CONFOC.VUKD WITH COSMOUOXY. EOLOGY is the science which investigates the succes' sive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature ; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...NOT TO BE CONFOUNDED WITH COSMOGONY. f^ EOLOGT is the science which investigates the succesVT sive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature ; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
 | Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton - 1874 - 800 pages
...chieftain, Sir Charles Lyell, said, " Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms...the surface and external structure of our planet" That is, they had to give the means of studying not only the animal and vegetable contents of the rocks... | |
 | 1833 - 738 pages
...must investigate the effects of her operations in former epochs." As geology professes to treat of the changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, the student of this branch of knowledge must have a previous acquaintance, in a greater or less degree,... | |
 | Watford Natural History Society and Hertfordshire Field Club - 1880 - 382 pages
...better than make use of the definition given by one of our greatest geologists, Sir Charles Lyell : " Geology is the science which investigates the successive...the surface and external structure of our planet." This is the technical or restricted and modern meaning of Geology. But let us, for a moment, consider... | |
 | 1892 - 660 pages
...mineralogist, 1890 ("The Colorado Desert," by Charles Russell Orcutt, pages S99-919). Lyell says: — "Geology is the science which investigates the successive...the surface and external structure of our planet." • In the decade commencing with 1850 the more depressed part of the Colorado desert seems to have... | |
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GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature : it inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and... 
