Life's Dawn on Earth Being the history of the oldest known fossil remains, and their relations to geological time and to the development of the animal kingdom

The active objectors to the animal nature of Eozoon have been few, though some of them have returned to the attack with a pertinacity and determination which would lead one to b...

The shortest answer to this question is, that this ancient fossil is the skeleton of a creature belonging to that simple and humbly organized group of animals which are known by...

The thoughts suggested to the philosophical naturalist by the contemplation of the dawn of life on our planet are necessarily many and exciting, and the subject has in it the ma...

Perhaps nothing excites more scepticism as to this ancient fossil than the prejudice existing among geologists that no organism can be preserved in rocks so highly metamorphic a...

The name Eozoon, or Dawn-animal, raises the question whether we shall ever know any earlier representative of animal life. Here I think it necessary to explain that in suggestin...

As we descend in depth and time into the earth's crust, after passing through nearly all the vast series of strata constituting the monuments of geological history, we at length...

It is a trite remark that most discoveries are made, not by one person, but by the joint exertions of many, and that they have their preparations made often long before they act...

Every one has heard of, or ought to have heard of, _Eozoon Canadense_, the Canadian Dawn-animal, the sole fossil of the ancient Laurentian rocks of North America, the earliest k...

1. General Section 9 2. Laurentian Hills 11 3. Section of Laurentian 13 4. Laurentian Map 16 5. Section at St. Pierre 22 6. Sketch of Rocks at St. Pierre 22 7. Eozoon from Burge...