Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The favourable reception accorded to the first edition has induced me to give the present a more definite educational character. Foot-notes are appended, referring to the position in the British Museum of all the principal antiquities, fossils, and implements mentioned in the...
The favourable reception accorded to the first edition has induced me to give the present a more definite educational character. Foot-notes are appended, referring to the positi...
2. Part 2It is supposed that a very long time passed while these were being laid one upon another, and before many plants or animals lived here, and there are good reasons for thinking t...
3. Part 3I will try now to give you some idea of the way in which the rocks come in their order, or the succession of formations as geologists call it. If we started to walk from Wales t...
4. Part 4In such immense forests insects must certainly have been plentiful, and some of the fossil bodies of beetles, dragon-flies, and spiders, have been preserved, and a few tree liza...
5. Part 5Now let us look into the rocks next above, and see what is to be found there. We have arrived in the Cretaceous period, or time when the chalk was formed.[13] You remember I tol...
6. Part 6The art of writing has grown up gradually and very slowly, for when the inhabitants of the Earth became numerous they felt the need of some way of expressing themselves to those...
7. Part 7It is impossible to say how many thousands of years may have passed before the rough stone weapons were replaced by the polished stone, or the cave was exchanged for an artifici...
8. Part 8‘The present little work, which is specially addressed to children, is written in so pleasant and easy a style, and its descriptions of life on the earth are on the whole so sim...