Thoughts on a Pebble, Or, A First Lesson in GeologyThe final edition of one of Mantell's most successful works, first published 13 years before with only 18 pages and stemming from the answers he gave his young son concerning a flint pebble from a nearby stream bed. |
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6th Edit abound Ammonites animal animalcules beautiful Bibl Bodi bivalves boulders Brighton Cliffs British calcareous cells chalk chalk and flint Choanite coast coloured plates composed Coral from chalk CORAL GROVE cretaceous deep deposits Echinus enclosed feet fishes Flustra Foraminifera forms fossil Fossil animalcules fossil corals fossil remains genera GIDEON ALGERNON MANTELL highly magnified HOOKER ILLUSTRATIONS imbedded Infusorial earth inhabitants integument Isle of Wight JOHN Bibl JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER kinds KING WILLIAM STREET lapidaries Lewes limestone living LOVELL REEVE marine Medals of Creation microscope Minute Corals monthly numbers natural Nautilus Note VIII organic remains origin petrified plants Polished sections polypes recent represented in Lign Richmond earth rock Rotalia sand sea-shore shore silex siliceous silicified soft species specimen spines sponges stone strata structure substance surface Sussex tentacula thou tubes Ventriculite water-worn waves Whitby WIGHT PEBBLES WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER Wonders of Geology WOOD IN FLINT zoophyte