Recently Published^ by the same Author, 
THE 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTH. 
A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF GEOLOGICAL 
HISTORY, 
BY THE 
Rev. H. N. HUTCHINSON, B.A., F.G.S. 
Crown cloth, with 27 Illustrations, p 7 ice 'js, 6 d. 
Contents. — i. Cloud-land, or Nebular Beginnings — 2. The Key to 
Geology — 3. An Archaic Era — 4. Cambrian Slates — 5. The Slates and 
Ashes of Siluria — 6. The Old Red Sandstone — 7. The Mountain Limestone 
— 8. Forests of the Coal-period — 9. A Great Interval — 10. The Cheshire 
Sandstones — ii. New Phases of Life — 12. Bath Oolites — 13. An Age of 
Reptiles — 14. The Chalk Downs — 15. The New Era — 16. The Ice-Age and 
Advent of Man. 
SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
“ His sketch of historic geology has a genuine continuity. It is so written 
as to be understanded of plain people, and is illustrated by some very good 
woodcuts and diagrams.’ — Saturday Review. 
‘ ‘ This most interesting book.” — Spectator. * 
“ A delightfully written and thoroughly accurate popular work on geology, 
well calculated to engage the interest of readers in the fascinating study of 
the Stony Science .” — Science Gossip. 
“ In this work the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson fproduces a popular account of 
geological history, and explains the principles and methods by which that 
history has been read. He endeavours to interpret the past by the light of 
the present, first acquiring a knowledge, by direct observation and self- 
instruction, of the chief operations now taking place on the earth’s surface, 
and then employing this knowledge to ascertain the meaning of the record of 
stratified rocks. This principle of ‘ uniformity ’ knocked the old teaching of 
catastrophism on the head. The author is accurate in all his details, yet his 
subject is touched into something not at all unlike romance. The illustrations 
are good .” — National Observer. 
London : EDWARD STANFORD, 26 & 27, Cockspur Street, S.W. 
