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TENBY; A SEASIDE HOLIDAY 
With Twenty-four Plates, Coloured. 
!N"ow Publishing, in Bi-monthly Parts, I 5 . Qd. each, 
A HISTORY OF THE 
BRITISH SEA-ANEMONES AND CORALS. 
WITH (JOLOURED PLATES AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS. 
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OMPHALOS; 
AN ATTEMPT TO UNTIE THE GEOLOGICAL KNOT. 
WITH FIFTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD. 
This Work announces and illustrates a grand Physical Law, 
which, though hitherto unrecognised, is proved to be of universal 
application in the organic world — the Law of Prochronism in 
Creation. On this principle the Author shows that the conclu- 
sions of geologists as to the great antiquity of the earth, are not 
inevitable^ — that there is another solution of the facts, at least 
possible. 
“ The argument is startling. But it is so ingeniously framed, and so 
enveloped in striking and beautiful illustrations, that it carries the reader 
along with it. . , . This very ingenious analogy . . . We cannot deny 
the merit of ingenuity to Mr. Gosse’s analogy, nor of great elegance and skill 
to his manner of illustrating it.” — Literary Gazette^ Nov. 21, 1857. 
“ Mr. Gosse’s argument appears to us both ingenious and important. . . . 
His argument, which is not in itself at all difficult to apprehend, has been 
exhibited here with all the clearness that could possibly have been desired. 
... It is a striking, almost an appalling vision, that is unfolded to us by 
this bold theory.” — St. James's Chronicle, Nov. 26, 1857. 
“ His book is written in a very lively style; his illustrations are beau- 
tiful, and many of them unusual; his reasonings are very ingenious ; and his 
thoughts highly suggestive, and frequently profound ; his information is 
multiform and minute ; and he makes it bear upon the elucidation of his 
main argument with remarkable effect.” — British Messenger, January, 
1858. 
“ We have no hesitation in pronouncing this book to be the most important 
and best-written that has yet appeared on the very interesting question with 
which it deals. We believe the logic of the book to be unanswerable, its 
postulates true, its laws fully deduced.” — Nat. Hist. Review, Jan. 1858. 
JOHN VAN VOOKST, PATBKNOSTEE ROW. 
