An Introduction to Geology 



BY WILLIAM B. SCOTT 







Illustrated, cloth, i2mo, $2.60 net 



An introduction to the science of geology for both students who 

 desire to pursue the subject exhaustively and those who wish merely 

 to obtain an outline of the methods and principal results of the science. 

 This is not one of the text-books which always pronounces a definite 

 and final opinion. The author holds that in no science are there 

 more open questions than in geology ; in none are changes of view 

 more frequent ; and in none is it more important to emphasize the 

 distinction between fact and inference. The student is here en- 

 couraged to weigh evidence and balance possibilities and to suspend 

 judgment when the testimony is insufficient to justify decision. The 

 author is an advocate of the new geology, and his book presents all 

 the latest advances in the science. The book is very fully illustrated, 

 many of the plates being from photographs taken by the United States 

 Geological Survey. 



" I have looked the book through with increasing pleasure. The 

 latest advances in American geology have been taken advantage of, 

 so that the book is up to date. American instructors have been waiting 

 a long time for a book which could be used satisfactorily as a guide 

 in an opening course in geology. Professor Scott's book seems to 

 me to be admirably adapted for this purpose." Professor C. R. VAN 

 HISE, University of Wisconsin. 



"Professor Scott's Geology seems to me excellently fitted for my 

 beginners at Smith College, and I shall try it there next year. It 

 is a fine book." Professor B. K. EMERSON, Amherst College. 



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