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da bomo recuerdo á todas las corporaciones que estuvieron representadas 

 en aquella fiesta de la ciencia. 



Para dar una idea de la importancia y atractivo que presenta este li- 

 bro, nos bastará hacer mención de las materias de que tratan los dieciseis 

 capítulos que la forman. ' 



Introductory. Academies and Learned Societies. Early Greological 

 Researches. — Origin, foundations, and early History of the Geologioal tío- 

 ciety. — The oklMasters. The publication of the "Transactions " — Greologi- 

 cal Maps. New Series of "Transactions-" — The Charter. Somerset House. 

 The "Proceedings." — Early geological Books The Wollaston Medal and 

 the Father of English Geology. Sedwick and Murchison on Cambrian and 

 Silui'ian, — The Greological iáurvey. The Devonian System. — Catalogues of 

 Fossils. Early discoveries of Vertebrata. — The Grlacial Period. The Cam- 

 bro-Silurian Controversy. — The "Quarterly Journal." — The Rise of Pet- 

 rology. Glose of the Cambro-Silurian Controversy. — The Southern 

 Uplands and the Nórth-West Highlañds of Scotland. — Antiquity of Man. 

 PalaeontologicalNomenclature.— ^í^o2oo?t Canadense and Laurentian rocks 

 The older rocks of Pembrokeshire. Petrology. — The Devonian Question. 

 Denudation. Origin of Scenery. Glacial Geology. — Attendance of Ladies. 

 The Museum and Library. Medals and Funds. Geological Literature. 



En Apéndices se hallan la Carta de la fundación de la Sociedad, listas 

 de miembros fundadores, Presidentes, etc., los sabios que han recibido en 

 premio de sus trabajos las medallas Wollaston, Murchison, Lyell; Bigsby 

 Prestwich, etc. Adornan la obra los retratos de los eminentes geólogos 

 Buckland, Babington, Phillips, Murchison, Fitton, Scrope, Lyell, Austen, 

 Falconer, Prestwich, Geikie, etc. 



The Physical Basis of Civilization. A Demostration that Two 

 Small Anatomical Modifications Determined Physical, Men- 

 tal, Moral, Economie, Social and Political Conditions, with 

 Appendix Notes on Articúlate Speech Memory, Altruism and 

 a Search £or the Origin of Life, Sex, Species, Etc., by T. W. 

 Heineman. — Chicago, 1908. Fortes and Gompany, Cloth, 12mo. 

 242 pagos $ 1.25. 



A work which clears up many mysterious phases of evolutionary the- 

 ory. In a pragmatic method, it traces from the earliest ages the progress 

 of man, physically, morally and socially. No other aiithor has attempted 

 so comprehensive a correlation of human a<:tivities, Clear, exact and sti- 



