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INTRODUCTION No science has advanced with more rapid steps than Geology } nor is any other science daily attracting such an increasing share of attention from all classes of society. Its popularity is due to its wonderful revelations and its practical bearing on the felt wants of the people. The history of the past would be unknown but for the unlooked-for discoveries which Geology has lately achieved, while the advantages arising from a correct knowledge of the internal structure of our earth are so apparent that no one dares to question its utility.A science so profoundly practical and so intensely interesting,— rewarding research with its sublimest truths,—will never lack students. And it becomes a matter of no secondary importance to provide for their approaching the subject through the proper avenue. The peculiar nature of the study, as well as the high place which it is taking in our Institutions of learning, demands for it better and increased appliances for illustration. For it is clear that in G-eology, not less than the other Natural Sciences, something more is needed than simple text-books or oral teaching. Visible, tangible objects can alone meet this necessity, and give the student clear and correct views. " I have satisfied myself long ago, (says Agassiz,) that the grand and most elementary principles of our science are better understood when illustrated from nature than when explained in a more abstract maner. In this way, each student is as it were, led to go himself over the road through which science itself has passed in its onward progress ; and, far from protracting his course, he soon finds that he is brought without preamble into the very sanctuary of science."Museums of nalural objects are becoming more and more a recognized necessity. G-eological cabinets are multiplying in numbers and increasing in size. In them the department of Palaeontology is securing a prominent position, now that G-eologists more fully appreciate the real value of fossil organisms, and regard them asportions of the great life-history of our globe—essential links in the chain of Zoological series—instead of mere " medals" for the identification of strata. Some of the greatest questions as to the past condition of the earth are to be answered only by the study of fossil in connection with living forms.

Excerpt from Catalogue of Casts of Fossils: From the Principal Museums of Europe and America, With Short Descriptions and IllustrationsThese casts are now - for the first time - offered to the Educational and Scientific Institutions of our Country, with the hope that their advantages in the illustration of the Science of Geology will be appreciated and be real.Those who examine the Catalogue here given, or glance at the Summary at its close, will see that the Zoological Series is very complete through nearly all its Classes and Orders, while the great Periods of Geological time are each well represented.Especial attention is, however, called to a few of the more prom incut and interesting objects.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...some of the largest Trilobites known. From the Lower Silurian at Ginetz, Bohemia. Size, 6x3. Price, $1.00. No. 438. Paradoxides Harlani, Green. This specimen, in which the tail is wanting, was found in the Quebec Group (Lower Silurian), Braintree, Massachusetts. Size, 12 x 9. Price, $2.50. No. 439. Paradoxides Davidis, Salter. From the Lower Lingula Flags (Lower Silurian), St. Davids (Pembroke), South Wales. Size, 11 x 9. Price, $2.00. No. 440. Parodoxides spinulosus, Broug. Body and Caudal Segments. This specimen, showing well the backward prolongation of the ribs on the caudal portion, is from the Lower Silurian of Skrey, Bohemia, and is now in the private Geological Cabinet of Mr. Ward, Ro-' Chester. Price, $0.75 No. 441. Phacops bufo (var. rana), Green. Trilobites of the genus Phacops have very large, prominent, granulated eyes, forming a segment of a cone, distinct trilobation, and eleven body-rings. This species, the Calymene macrophthalma of Brongniart, and perhaps identical also with the Phacops latifrons of Bronn, has a very convex head, occupying one-third of the whole length, a tuberculated glabella, and the eleven pleurae bent down at the extremities. There are 66 lenses in each eye. This specimen (coiled) is from the Hamilton Group (Devonian), Ontario Co., N. Y. No. 443. Phacops cephalotes, Corda. From the Upper Silurian Limestone at Tetin, Bohemia. No. 443. Phacops Logani, Hall. From the shaly limestone of the Lower Helderberg Group (Upper Silurian), New York. Price, $0.60. No. 444. Placoparia Zippei, Bock. From the Lower Silurian, Rokycan, Bohemia. Price, $0.30. No. 445. Proetus longicaudus, Hall. In this genus, the eyes are of moderate size, very prominent, smooth, and joined rather closely to the glabella; and the body has ten segments. Thi...

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