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The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2 First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic Remains

Gideon Algernon Mantell · Public domain text

250,439 words · about 17 h 32 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845

Text only · 284 illustrations omitted. Illustrated source.

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About this book

Author
Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790–1852)
Language
English
Subjects
Paleontology, Geology › England › Guidebooks
Length
250,439 words · about 17 h 32 min
Sections
41 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (41)

The opening of IV. Geological Excursions, 827

Miscellaneous, 905.

General Index, 909.

DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.

Plate I.--Frontispiece to Vol. I.

Plate II. Frontispiece to Vol. II.

Plates III., IV., V., and VI., to follow the Table of Contents, and be placed opposite the description of each.

Lign. 247, to face page 770.

DESCRIPTION

OF THE

FRONTISPIECE OF VOL. I.

PLATE I.

Fig. 1.--A Fern in Coal-shale, from Leicestershire.

2.--A Crustacean in Limestone, from Solenhofen.

3.--A Fish (Pycnodus rhombus) in Limestone; from near Castel-a-mare.

4.--Half the Lower Jaw of a Hyena, from a fissure in a
sandstone rock, near Maidstone.

5.--An Ammonite, from the Isle of Portland.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VIGNETTE OF VOL. I.

A Group of Fossils, containing

Ammonites Mantellii, from the Chalk-marl, Sussex.
Turrilites costatus, from the Lower Chalk, Rouen.
Chondrites Bignoriensis, from the Chalk-marl, Sussex.
Echinus and Fusus, from Tertiary strata, Palermo.

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