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Tonight we're continuing with one of the foundational volumes of modern science, principles of geology, or the modern changes of the

earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology by Sir Charles Lyle, MA FRS, Vice President of the Geological Society of London, author of a manual of elementary

geology, travels in North America, a second visit to the United States, etc.

A new and entirely revised edition, illustrated with maps, plates and woodcuts,

published by D Appleton and Co, New York, 1854.

Let's pick up where we left off

in Lyle's tracing of the history of geology as a science.

Among the contemporaries of Hook and Ray,

Woodward, a professor of medicine, had acquired the most extensive information respecting

the geological structure of the crust of the earth.

He had examined many parts of the British strata with minute detention and his systematic collection

of specimens bequeathed to the University of Cambridge

and still preserved there as arranged by him, shows how far he had advanced in ascertaining the order of superposition.

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