HISTORY OF GEOLOGY 

 AND PALEONTOLOGY 



TO THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 



BY 



KARL ALFRED VON ZITTEL 



PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY IX THE UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH 



DIRECTOR OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF MUNICH J PRESIDENT 



OF THE BAVARIAN ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ETC. 



TRANSLATED BY 



MARIA M. OGILVIE-GORDON 



D.Sc. (LONDON}, PH.D. (MUNICH) 



WITH THIRTEEN PORTRAITS 



LONDON: 

 WALTER SCOTT, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 



CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 



153-157 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. 



1901. 



