Recently Published^ by the same Author. 

 THE 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTH. 



A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF GEOLOGICAL 

 HISTORY. 



BY THE 



Rev. H. N. HUTCHINSON, B.A., F.G.S. 



Crown %vo, cloth, ivith 27 Illustrations, pi ice 75. 6d. 



Contents. — i. Cloud-land, or Nebular Beginnings — 2. The Key to 

 Geology — 3. An Archaic Era — 4. Cambrian Slates — 5. The Slates and 

 Ashes of Siluria — 6. The Old Red Sandstone — 7. The Mountain Limestone 

 — 8. Forests of the Coal-period — 9. A Great Interval — 10. The Cheshire 

 Sandstones— II. New Phases of Life — 12. Bath Oolites— 13. An Age of 

 Reptiles — 14. The Chalk Downs — 15. The New Era — 16. The Ice-Age and 

 Advent of Man. 



SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



" His sketch of historic geology has a genuine continuity. It is so written 

 as to be understanded of plain people, and is illustrated by some very good 

 woodcuts and diagrams.' — Saturday Reviezv. 



"This most interesting book." — Spectator. 



"A delightfully written and thoroughly accurate popular work on geology, 

 well calculated to engage the interest of readers in the fascinating study of 

 the Stony Science." — Scietice Gossip. 



" In this work the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ^produces a popular account of 

 geological history, and explains the principles and methods by which that 

 history has been read. He endeavours to interpret the past by the light of 

 the present, first acquiring a knowledge, by direct observation and self- 

 instruction, of the chief operations now taking place on the earth's surface, 

 and then employing this knowledge to ascertain the meaning of the record of 

 stratified rocks. This principle of 'uniformity' knocked the old teaching of 

 catastrophism on the head. The author is accurate in all his details, yet his 

 subject is touched into something not at all unlike romance. The illustrations 

 are good." — National Observer. 



London : EDWARD STANFORD, 26 & 27, Cockspur Street, S.^\ , 



