...all—Not to be confounded with Cosmogony. GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...the surface and external structure of our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a...

...must investigate the effects of her operations in former epochs." As geology professes to treat of the changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, the student of this branch of knowledge must have a previous acquaintance, in a greater or less degree,...

...the construction and physical history of the globe to which we are bound, investigate the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, and enquire into the causes of these transitions, and the influence they have exerted in modifying...

...be, in its most extended sense, the ancient natural history of the earth, and of the changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It teaches us the materials of which the earth, to a certain depth, is composed, and the order in which...

...arrangement of the rocks and strata is omitted, and the science is limited to " the investigation of the changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, and their causes" (see note, p. 4.) The Author believes, that this is what the Germans call a one-sided...

...comprehends the investigation of its structure, and the characters and causes of the various changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It has been emphatically called, by one of our most eminent philosophers, the sister science of Astronomy....

...comprehends the investigation of its structure, and the characters and causes of the various changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It has been emphatically called, by one of our most eminent philosophers, the sister science of Astronomy....

...be, in its most extended sense, the ancient natural history of the earth, and of the changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It teaches us the materials of which the earth, to a certain depth, is composed, and the order in which...

...be, in its most extended sense, the ancient natural history of the earth, and of the changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It teaches us the materials of which the earth, to a certain depth, is composed, and the order in which...

...science which, according to the reasoning and investigation of man, gives an account of the " successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature1." It is the history of our planet. As some important event, the occurrence of which we find...