THE GREAT ICE AGE, 



AND ITS RELATIONS TO THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN. 



By JAMES GEIKIE, F. R. S. E. 

 With Maps, Charts, and numerous Illustrations. 

 I vol., thick i2mo. . . . Price, $2.50. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



" Intelligent general readers, as well as students of geology, will find more infor- 

 mation and reasonable speculation concerning the great glacial epoch of our globe in 

 this volume than can be gathered from a score of other sources. The author writes 

 not only for the benefit of his * fellow-hammerers,' but also for non-specialists, and 

 any one gifted with curiosity in respect to the natural history of the earth will be de- 

 lighted with the clear statements and ample illustrations of Mr. Geikie's ' Great Ice 

 Age. " ' — Episcopal Register, 



" ' The Great Ice Age ' is a work of extraordinary interest and value. The subject 

 is peculiarly attractive in the immensity of its scope, and exercises a fascination over the 

 imagination so absorbing that it can scarcely find expression in words. It has all the 

 charms of wonder- tales, and excites scientific and unscientific minds zB^^.'' —Boston 

 Gazette, 



" Mr. Geikie has succeeded in writing one of the most charming volumes in the 

 library of popularized science." — Utica Herald. 



" We cannot too heartily commend the style of this book, which is scientific and yet 

 popular, and yet not so popular as to dispense with the necessity of the reader's putting 

 his mind to work in order to follow out the author in his forcible yet lucid arguments. 

 Nor can the attentive reader fail to leave the work with the same enthusiasm over the 

 subject as is shown in every page by the talented 2m^ox:' —Portland Press. 



" Although Mr. Geikie's position in the scientific world is such as to indicate that 

 he is a pretty safe teacher, some of his views are decidedly original, and he does not 

 make a point of sticking to the beaten ^^-dAki.:* Springfield Union. 



"Prof. Geikie's book is one that may well engage thoughtful students other than 

 geologists, bearing as it does on the absorbing question of the unwritten history of our 

 race. The closing chapter of his work, in which, reviewing his analytical method, he 

 constructs the story of the checkered past of the last 200,000 years, can scarcely fail to 

 give food for thought even to the indifferent, "—^w^^z/^ Courier. 



*' Every step in the process is traced with admirable perspicuity and fullness by 

 Mr. Geikie." — London Saturday Review. 



** It offers to the student of geology by far the completest account of the period yet 

 published, and is characterized throughout by refreshing vigor of diction and originality 

 of ihow^X.:*— Glasgow Herald. 



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