THE STORY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE 



earth. It is a history " imperfectly kept and written in 

 a changing dialect. Of this history we possess the last 

 volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. 

 Of this volume only here and there a short chapter has 



PROFESSOR E. D. COPE 



been preserved, and of each page only here and there a 

 few lines." For a paleontologist to dogmatize from 

 such a record would be as rash, he thinks, as " for a nat- 

 uralist to land for five minutes on a barren point of 



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