Geology of To-Day: A Popular Introduction in Simple Language:

From the PREFACE.
THE Geology of To-day! The title appals me. Modern geology is the result of more than a century's work by innumerable and indefatigable pioneers working in all parts of the earth. Their discoveries and researches are written in all the languages of the civilized world, and geological literature is so voluminous that no one can read it all. The Geological Society of London the parent of geological societies publishes an annual index of the literature added to its library; th...