Some Salient Points in the Science of the Earth

by Sir John William Dawson

[CONTENTS.]

CHAPTER I. Page
The Starting-point	[3]
CHAPTER II.
World-making	[9]
CHAPTER III.
The Imperfection of the Geological Record	[39]
CHAPTER IV.
The History of the North Atlantic	[57]
CHAPTER V.
The Dawn of Life	[95]
CHAPTER VI.
What May Be Learned from Eozoon	[135]
CHAPTER VII.
The Apparition and Succession of Animal Forms	[169]
CHAPTER VIII.
The Genesis and Migrations of Plants	[201]
CHAPTER IX.
The Growth of Coal	[233]
CHAPTER X.
The Oldest Air-breathers	[257]
CHAPTER XI.
Markings, Footprints, and Fucoids	[311]
CHAPTER XII.
Pre-determination in Nature	[329]
CHAPTER XIII.
The Great Ice Age	[345]
CHAPTER XIV.
Causes of Climatal Change	[363]
CHAPTER XV.
The Distribution of Animals and Plants As Related to Geographical and Geological Changes	[401]
CHAPTER XVI.
Alpine and Arctic Plants in Connection With Geological History	[425]
CHAPTER XVII.
Early Man	[459]
CHAPTER XVIII.
Man in Nature	[481]

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[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.]

		PAGE
Cape Trinity on the Saguenay	[Frontispiece]
Folding of the Earth's Crust	To face	[9]
Cambro-Silurian Sponges	"	[39]
Map of the North Atlantic	"	[57]
Nature-print of Eozoon	"	[95]
Laurentian Hills, Lower St. Lawrence		[100]
Section from Petite Nation Seigniory to St. Jerome		[101]
The Laurentian Nucleus of the American Continent		[103]
Attitude of Limestone at St. Pierre		[109]
Weathered Eozoon and Canals	To face	[112]
" " "		[113]
Group of Canals in Eozoon		[115]
Amœba and Actinophrys		[119]
Minute Foraminiferal Forms		[123]
Section of a Nummulite		[127]
Portion of Shell of Calcarina		[128]
Weathered Eozoon with Oscular tubes	To face	[135]
Diagram showing different States of Fossilization of a Cell of a Tabulate Coral		[139]
Slice of Crystalline Lower Silurian Limestone		[141]
Walls of Eozoon penetrated with Canals		[141]
Joint of a Crinoid		[145]
Shell from a Silurian Limestone, Wales		[146]
Casts of Canals of Eozoon in Serpentine		[147]
Canals of Eozoon		[147]
Primordial Trilobites	To face	[169]
Primitive Fishes	"	[184]
Devonian Forest	"	[201]
Coal Section in Nova Scotia		[233]
Skeleton of Hylonomus Lyelli	To face	[257]
Footprints of Hylopus Logani	"	[260]
Humerus and Jaws of Dendrerpeton	"	[272]
Reptiliferous Tree	"	[276]
Microsaurian, restored	"	[278]
Dolichosoma longissimum, restored	"	[286]
Pupa and Conulus	"	[288]
Millipedes and Insect	"	[296]
Footprints of Limulus	"	[311]
Rusichnites Grenvillensis	"	[322]
Restoration of Protospongia tetranenia	"	[329]
Giant Net-sponge	"	[336]
Boulder Beach, Little Metis	"	[345]
Palæogeography of North America	"	[383]
Distribution of Animals in Time	"	[401]
Tuckerman's Ravine and Mount Washington	"	[425]
Pre-historic Skulls	"	[459]
Primitive Sculpture	"	[481]

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TABLE OF GEOLOGICAL HISTORY.