The Medals of Creation, or First Lessons in Geology, and the Study of Organic Remains, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing Fossil Vegetables, Zoophytes, Echinoderms, and Molluscs (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Medals of Creation, or First Lessons in Geology, and the Study of Organic Remains, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing Fossil Vegetables, Zoophytes, Echinoderms, and Molluscs

With this conviction the present volumes are Offered, with such modifications of the original plan as circumstances have rendered necessary, as a guide for the Student and the Amateur Collector of fossil remains; for the intelligent Observer who may desire to possess a general knowledge of the subject, without intending to pursue Geology as a science; and for the Tourist who may wish, in the course of his travels, to employ profitably a leisure hour in quest of those interesting memorials Of the ancient physical revolutions of our globe, which he will find everywhere presented to his observation.

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