Lanterna Rally

Author: J. F. Blake

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781330048078

Excerpt from Annals of British Geology, 1890: A Critical Digest of the Publications and Account of Papers Read During the Year With Personal Items The Book here offered to Students of Geology has been suggested by the "Geological Record." It differs, however, from that work in such fundamental particulars as to occupy a different ground. In the first place, it is not so ambitious as to attempt to deal with the writings of the whole world. Geology is so largely a local science, that much of the work done in it has only a local interest. England has, no doubt, as good a right as any nation to be the universal chronicler; but if others were to take up the work we should have several records, all of which ought to be alike, but probably would not be. We already have the French "Annuaire Universelle." It is hard enough to make the record complete for our own country; it will be inevitably more defective for other countries, and therefore be unequal in execution as a whole. If, however, each country could undertake its own recording, the whole series would be as complete and even in value as the varying capacities of the several recorders might render possible. There is already an annual brought out by M. Nikitin for Russian Geology; and if the French "Annuaire" and the German "Neues Jahrbuch" were confined to their respective nations, a fair beginning would be made, and if the International Geological Congress could charge itself with the general oversight of the whole, and authorise the several recorders, we might then hope for an adequate Geological Record for the world. The present work is, therefore, an attempt to supply a British contribution to this desired undertaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.