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da como 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 qiie la forman. 



Introductory. Academias and Leamed fSoeieties. Early Geological 

 Besearches. — Orígin, foundations, and early History of the Greological iio- 

 ciety. — The oíd Masters. The publication of the "Transactions " — Geologi- 

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

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

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

 Silurian. — The Geological Survey. The Devonian System. — Catalogues of 

 Possils. Early discoveries of Vertebrata. — The Glacial Period. The Cam- 

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

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

 Uplands and the North-West Highlands of Scotland. — -Antiquity of Man. 

 Palaeontological Nomenclature. — Eozoon Canadense and Laurentian rocks 

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

 Denudation. Origin of Seenery. 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, 

 Fa^lconer, Prestwich, Geikie, etc. 



The Physical Basis of Civilization. A Demostratioii that Two 

 ¡ámall Anatomical Modification.s Determined Physical, Men- 

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

 Appendix Notes on Articúlate Speech Memory, Altruism and 

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

 Heineman. — Chicago, 1908. Fortes and Company. Cloth, 12mo. ■ 

 242 pages $ 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 author has attempted 

 se compvehensive a correlation of human acti^ities. Clear, exact and sti- 



