Open-Air Studies In Geology

OPEN-AIR STUDIES IN GEOLOGY. STANDARD WORKS IN GEOLOGY. By the same Author. FOURTH EDITION R , evised. 10s. 6d. PRACTICAL GEOLOGY Aids in With a Section on Fossils, BY PROF. G RENVILLE A. J. COLE, F. G. S. With Numerous Illustrations. Professor Cole treats of the examination of minerals and rocks in a way that lias never been attempted before. . . . DESERVINQ OF THE HIGHEST PRAISE. Here, indeed, are Aids INNUMERABLE AND INVALUABLE. A11 the directions are given with the utmost clearness and precision. Professor Cole is not only an accomplished Petrologist, he is evidently also a thoroughly sympathetic teacher, and seems to know intuitively what are stumbling-blocks to learners--a rare and priceless quality.-Athenceurn. Demy 8v0, handsome cloth, 18s. Physical Geology and Palzon tology. BY HARRY GOVIER SEELEY, F. R. S., PROFESSOR OF QEOQRAPHY IN KINQB COLLEQE, LONDON. With Prontispiece in CiLromo-Lithographg, and IIEustrations. M much that is not accessible in other works is presented in this volume, that no Student of Geology can afford to be without it--Am-ican Journal of Engimng. Demy Bvo, handsome cloth, 34s. Stratigraphical Geology and Paleon tology. BY ROBERT ETHERIDGE, F. R. S., OIE THE NATURAL HIST. DEPARTMENT, BRITISH MUSEUM, LATE PALBONTOLOGIST TO THE QEOLOQlCAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN, PAST-PRESIDENT OF THE QEOLOQICAL SOCIETY, ETO. With Mup, Numerous Tables, and Thirty-six Plates. No such compendium of geological knowledge has ever been brought together before.-Westminster Review. - - ---LONDON CHARLES GRIFFIN AND CO., LTD., EXETER S TREETS, T RAND. OPEN-AIR STUD , IES IN GEOLOGY GRENVILLE A. J. COLE, I b M. R. I. A., F. G. S., PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY IN THE ROYAL COLLEGIP OF SCIENCE FOR IRELASD AUTHOR OF AIDS IN PRACTICAL GEOLOGY AND THE GYPSY RO D. SECOND EDITION, REVISED. LONDON CHARLES GRIFFIN AND COMPANY, LIMITED EXETER STREET, STRAND. 1902. AZZ rights reserved. BOYS OOrrZrD NOT HAVE A MORE ALLURING INTRODUCTION to scienfiflc pursuits than these charming-looking volumes.-Letter to the Publishers from the Headmaster of one of our great Public Schools. Handsome Oloth, 7s. 6d. Gilt, for Preseutation, 8s. 6d. OPEN-AIR STUDIES IN BOTANY SKETCHES OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS IN THEIR HOMES. BY R. LLOYD PRAEGER, B. A., M. R. I. A. Illustrated by Drawings from Nature by S. ROSAMONPRD AEGER, and Photographs by R. WELUH. A FRESH AND STIMULATING book . . . should take a high place. The Illustrations are drawn with much skill.-The Times. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. . . . One of the MOST ACCURATE as well aa INTERESTING books of the kind we have seen.-Atbmmm. Beautifully Illustrated. With a Frontispiece in Colours, and numerous specially drawn Plates by CHARLES WHYMPER. OPEN-AIR STUDIES IN BIRD-LIFE SKETCHES OF BRITISH BIRDS IN THEIR HAUNTS. BY CHARLES DIXON. I. The Spacious Air.-11. The Open Fields and Downs.-111. In the Hedgerows.-IV. On Heath and Moor.-V. On the Mountains.-VI. Amongst the Evergreens,-VII. Copse and Woodland.--VIII. By Stream and Pool.-IX. The Sandy Wastes and Mudflats.-X. The Sea-Laved Rocks. --XI. Birds of the C . - I N D E X . READY IMMEDIATELY. LONDON CHARLES GRIFFIN CO., LTD. EXETER STREET, S T U D . TO ARTHUR JACKSON THE SECOND EDITION OF THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED BY HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. IN 1895, in the preface to the first edition of this little book, I sought to excuse its imperfect mode of treatment of a wide and impressive subject. Some slight knowledge of chemistry and physics may happily be presupposed and the first chapter. is chiefly intended as a reminder of what may be learnt in school...