"I weigh my words well when I assert, that the man who should know the true history of the bit of chalk which every carpenter carries about in his breeches-pocket, though ignorant of all other history, is likely, if he will think his knowledge out to its ultimate results, to have a truer, and therefore a better, conception of this wonderful universe, and of man's relation to it, than the most learned student who is deep-read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of nature."-Professor Huxley's Lecture On a Bit of Chalk,' British Association, 1868. CHIPS AND CHAPTERS A BOOK FOR AMATEUR AND YOUNG GEOLOGISTS BY DAVID PAGE, LL.D. F.R.S.E. F.G.S. AUTHOR OF 'TEXT-BOOKS OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY;' 'HANDBOOK OF GEOLOGICAL TERMS, WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXIX IN The Right of Translation is reserved + |