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I had brought with me the first volume of Lyell's 'Principles of Geology, which I studied attentively; and the book was of the highest service to me in many ways. The very first place which I examined, namely St.
Then, at last, Lyell's prediction was fulfilled, and, without any apparent warning, my letter, with the enclosed essay, came upon him, like a thunderbolt from a cloudless sky! This forced him to what he considered a premature publicity, and his two friends undertook to have our two papers read before this Society.
When at home I will send my carte. You will allow, I suppose, that the capacity of grafting has not been directly acquired through Natural Selection. I think that you will be pleased with the second volume or part of Lyell's Principles, just out. In regard to sexual selection.
The players were still at their game, and the little copper discs they used for throwing kept rolling close to his feet, and the canteen-woman passed backwards and forwards with her little barrel. "See this, Servien," he said presently; "in these lines Virgil, or rather the poet of the Alexandrine age who was his model, has anticipated Laplace's great hypothesis and Charles Lyell's theories.
Sir George let him go on for a while, then broke in, 'If that's a thousand years old, I likewise am a thousand years old, because one has been taken out of me. 'What do you mean? was Lyell's ejaculation. 'Oh, said Sir George, 'a head almost similar was on the spear which an Australian native drove into my thigh. Whereupon laughter, and tale of the fight.
For my part, following out Lyell's metaphor, I look at the natural geological record, as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.
Going even to Kew knocks me up, and I have almost ceased trying to do so. Once again let me thank you warmly for your admirable review. My dear Wallace, yours ever very sincerely, What an excellent address you gave about Madeira, but I wish you had alluded to Lyell's discussion on land shells, etc. not that he has said a word on the subject. The whole address quite delighted me. I hear Mr.
Here Lyell's doctrine paves the way, by showing that in the physical geology there is no general or absolute break between the two, probably no greater between the latest tertiary and the quaternary period than between the latter and the present time. So far, the Lyellian view is, we suppose, generally concurred in.
This is the burden of the book before us. We offer the reader a brief outline of this evidence. In doing so, we will follow the order of Sir Charles Lyell's work, and merely state the leading facts which geological investigations have brought to light.
Lizars, Edinburgh. 1851. Ansted's Introduction to Geology, i. 303. Lyell's Travels in North America, i. 254. Quarterly Journal of Geological Society, April, 1851. A work in any department of general literature rarely appears from the pen of a clergyman in the Church of Scotland, and therefore that to which we are about to refer, under the title noted beneath, is in some respects a curiosity.
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