The H.M.S. Challenger Library

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only search the H.M.S. Challenger Library Search of new material may be delayed several weeks after postingGeology Library Search of new material may be delayed several weeks after posting All documents inthis library exist as searchable PDF pages and as jpeg page images. TheGoogle search (above) will present individual pdf pages. You can viewthe full document by editing the individual page web address asfollows: If the pdf page address is: "http://19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-08/PDFpages/0126.pdf" then the entry page to the fulldocument is: "http://19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-08/README.htm". This naming convention is followed throughout this website. own part, I do notlook to see the exertions of the present race of geologists surpassedby any who may succeed them. The great geological theorizers of thepast belong to the Fabulous Period of the science ; but I consider theeminent men by whom I am surrounded as the Heroic Age of Geology. Theyhave slain its monsters and cleared its wildernesses; and founded hereand there a great metropolis, the queen of future empires. They haveexerted combinations of talents, which we cannot hope to see oftenagain exhibited; especially when the condition of the science whichproduced them is changed. I consider that it is now the destiny ofGeology to pass from the heroic to the Historical Period. She can nolonger look for supernatural successes: but she is entering upon acareer, I trust a long and prosperous one, in which she must carry hervigilance into every province of her territory, and extend her dominionover the earth, till it becomes, far more truly than any before, auniversal empire. the Rev. William Whewell deliveredFebruary 15, 1839*Address as President of theGeological Society (England).The Library of 19th CenturyScience contains a number ofbooks and reports written (mostly) in the 19th century. The books areavailable for direct viewing. Fair Use. You are encouraged to browse thelistings and use this siteas a library resource for your personal use. This includes downloadinga single copy of a complete report for personal use. All materials arecopyrighted, and all rights are reserved.The Golden Age of GeologyH.M.S. ChallengerThe Golden Age of Geology library has many of the important books onGeology written in the 19th Century, including the complete BridgewaterTreatises, and works by William Smith, John Phillips, William DanielConybeare, Baron Georges Cuvier, John Herschel, Robert Bakewell, EdwardHitchcock, Louis Agassiz, Adam Sedgwick, Gideon Algernon Mantell, JohnPye Smity, Sir Charles Lyell, Hugh Miller, Alexander vonHumboldt, James Dana, Alexander Winchell, Louis Figuier, ErnstHaeckel, Sir Andrew Ramsay, Archibald Geikie, Sir WilliamDawson, Karl Alfred von Zittel, and Eduard Suess.The Golden Age of GeologyLibrary has all of the books available for viewing as linkedjpg page images and as searchable acrobat (pdf) pages.

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