Essay on the theory of the earth / By M. Cuvier ... Translated from the French ... by Robert Kerr ... With mineralogical illustrations by Professor Jameson.

  • Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Essay on the theory of the earth / By M. Cuvier ... Translated from the French ... by Robert Kerr ... With mineralogical illustrations by Professor Jameson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The attention of naturalists was early di- rected to the investigation of the fossil organic remains so generally and abund- antly distributed throughout the strata of which the crust of the earth is composed. It is not, as some writers now imagine, en- tirely a modern study ; for even so early as the time of Leibnitz, we find that philoso- pher drawing and describing fossil bones. After this period it continued to interest individuals, and engage the particular at- tention of societies and academies. The Koyal Society of London, by the Memoirs of Sloane, Collinson, Lister, Derham, Baker, Grew, Hunter, Jacobs, Plott, Camper, and many others, afforded satisfactory proofs