THE CAUSE OF AN ICE AGE. By Sir Robert J. Ball, LL. D., F. R. S., Royal Astronomer of Ireland, author of “Starland.” The first volume in the Modern Science Series, edited by Sir John Lubbock. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
“An exceedingly bright and interesting discussion of some of the marvelous physical revolutions of which our earth has been the scene. Of the various ages traced and located by scientists, none is more interesting or can be more so than the Ice age, and never have its phenomena been more clearly and graphically described, or its causes more definitely located, than in this thrillingly interesting volume.”—Boston Traveller.
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TOWN GEOLOGY. By the Rev. Charles Kingsley, F. L. S., F. G. S., Cañon of Chester. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
“I have tried rather to teach the method of geology than its facts; to furnish the student with a key to all geology; rough indeed and rudimentary, but sure and sound enough, I trust, to help him to unlock most geological problems which may meet him in any quarter of the globe.”—From the Preface.
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AN AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL RAILWAY GUIDE. Giving the Geological Formation along the Rail-roads, with Altitude above Tide-water, Notes on Interesting Places on the Routes, and a Description of each of the Formations. By James Macfarlane, Ph. D., and more than Seventy-five Geologists. Second edition, 426 pp., 8vo. Cloth, $2.50.
“The idea is an original one.... Mr. Macfarlane has produced a very convenient and serviceable hand-book, available alike to the practical geologist, to the student of that science, and to the intelligent traveler who would like to know the country through which he is passing.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
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