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Second Edition, Revised and greatly Enlarged. 



A MANUAL OF PALAEONTOLOGY. 



FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. 



With a General Introduction on the Principles of Paleontology. 

 By H. ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, M.D., D.Sc, Etc., 



Professor of Natiu-al History in the University of St Andrews. 

 New Edition. Two Volumes octavo. With 722 Illustrations, £2, 2s. 



'* All this Dr Nicholson works out with a rigid scientific exactness, omitting nothing that is really 

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 liend. At the same time there is a wonderful charm of simplicity and clearness about the composi- 

 tion : the indefinable touch of genius lights up the pages ; and the most general reader must be stolid 

 indeed wlio does not follow tlie author with an interest running hard upon enthusiasm. . . . The 

 illustrations are not only profuse and scientifically accurate, but exhibit for the most part a pictorial 

 delicacy and vividness such as must satisfy the most exacting connoisseur in this kind of ait." — 

 Loiidon Quarterly Review. 



" It is certainly the best book of its kind for the use of students, and for tlie general reader, wliirh 

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



ON THE STRUCTURE AND AFFINITIES OF THE 



"TABULATE CORALS" of the PALAEOZOIC PERIOD. 



With Critical Descriptions of Illustrative Species. 



Illustrated with Engravings on Wood and 15 Lithographic Plates. Royal Svo, 'Jls. 



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 which, indeed, may perhaps never be cleared up, yet in his present volume he has made our know- 

 ledge of these puzzling organisms take a great step forward. In the matter of illustrations, also, 

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