...ge, earth ; logos, that which is said of, a discourse). The science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...kingdoms of nature ; it inquires into the causes of those changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure...

...LYELL im ersten Satz seiner principles aus : geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifj'ing the surfaee and external structure of the globe. Sehr ausführlich ist das Programm, welches...

...relations which the several constituent masses bear to each othw. It also investigates tho successive changes that have taken place In the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. The geologist ought to be well versed in chemistry, mineralogy, zoology, botany, comparative anatomy...

...purposes. GEOLOGY OF THE COLORADO DESERT. " Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...the surface and external structure of our planet." — Lyell. It is scarcely less than presumption to attempt to write a treatise on the geology of a...

..."WALKS AND TALKS IN THE GEOLOGICAL FIELD." I. I. As "the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature." 2. Of the nature and mode of action of the agencies which cause geological changes. II, i. Plymouth...

...and his surroundings. A certain unit may be concerned with investigations relative to the "successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature"; another may be concerned with "the causes of these changes" ; and another still with the "influences...

...ARCHIBALD GBIKIE „ 261 From a photograph. ' Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...the surface and external structure of our planet.' Lyell, 'Principles of Geology,' First Edition, 1830, and (without alteration) Twelfth Edition, 1875....

...science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the inorganic and organic kingdoms of nature ; it inquires into the causes of...the surface and external structure of our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods we acquire a...

...we understand it to-day, and which Lyell defined as, " The science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature ; and inquires into the causes of those changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying...

...Principles opens with this definition : " Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influences which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet,"...