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Excerpt from The Earth's History: An Introduction to Modern Geology
I cannot conclude this prefatory note without express ing my sincere thanks to my friend Professor T. Mckenny Hughes of Cambridge, for permission to use Table II. And the section in Plate VIII., as well as for much valuable suggestion and help. My acknow ledgments are also due to Sir A. Geikie, Professor E. Hull, and Professor A. H. Green for permission, freely granted, to base figures upon illustrations in their published papers to Mr. Murray for permission to use illustrations from Sir Charles Lyell's Principles and Slu dent's Elements; to Messrs. Macmillan Co. For the like favour in the case of Figures 14, 15, 16, and 17 and to Dr. H. R. Mill for permission to include some of the maps in his companion volume on T [it Realm of Nature.
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