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diff --git a/old/3772-h/files/title.html b/old/3772-h/files/title.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9933ccd --- /dev/null +++ b/old/3772-h/files/title.html @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> +<!-- saved from url=(0036)http://../Lyell/The Student's Elements of Geology --> +<html> +<head> +<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org"> +<title>The Student's Elements of Geology: Title</title> +<meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv= +"Content-Type"> +<meta content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name="GENERATOR"> +<link rel="stylesheet" href="geology.css" type="text/css"> +</head> +<body> +<center> +<h3>THE STUDENT'S</h3> + +<br> +<h2>ELEMENTS OF GEOLOGY</h2> + +<br> +<br> +By SIR CHARLES LYELL, B<small>ART.</small>, F.R.S.<br> +<small>AUTHOR OF "THE PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY," "THE ANTIQUITY OF +MAN," ETC.</small></center> + +<p> </p> + +<center><img src="../images/title.jpg" width="172" height="154" alt= +"Thecosmilia annularis"></center> + +<center><small>WITH MORE THAN 600 ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD.</small> + +<p> </p> + +<br> +<br> +NEW YORK<br> +<small>HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS</small><br> +1878</center> + +<br> +<br> +<center><img src="../images/cover.jpg" width="269" height="437" alt= +"Tertiary or Cainozoic, Secondary or Mesozoic, Primary or Paleozoic"> +</center> + +<br> +<p> </p> + +<p> </p> + +<hr> +<p class="page"><a name="page xiii">[ xiii ]</a></p> + +<p> </p> + +<center> +<h3>PREFACE</h3> +</center> + +<p>T<small>HE LAST</small> or sixth <small>EDITION</small> of my +"Elements of Geology" was already out of print before the end of +1868, in which year I brought out the tenth edition of my +"Principles of Geology."</p> + +<p>In writing the last-mentioned work I had been called upon to +pass in review almost all the leading points of speculation and +controversy to which the rapid advance of the science had given +rise, and when I proposed to bring out a new edition of the +"Elements" I was strongly urged by my friends not to repeat these +theoretical discussions, but to confine myself in the new treatise +to those parts of the "Elements" which were most indispensable to a +beginner. This was to revert, to a certain extent, to the original +plan of the first edition; but I found, after omitting a great +number of subjects, that the necessity of bringing up to the day +those which remained, and adverting, however briefly, to new +discoveries, made it most difficult to confine the proposed +abridgment within moderate limits. Some chapters had to be entirely +recast, some additional illustrations to be introduced, and figures +of some organic remains to be replaced by new ones from specimens +more perfect than those which had been at my command on former +occasions. By these changes the work assumed a form so different +from the sixth edition of the "Elements," that I resolved to give +it a new title and call it the "Student's Elements of Geology."</p> + +<p>In executing this task I have found it very difficult to meet +the requirements of those who are entirely ignorant of the science. +It is only the adept who has already overcome</p> + +<p> </p> + +<hr> +<p class="page"><a name="page xiv">[ xiv ]</a></p> + +<br> +<p>the first steps as an observer, and is familiar with many of the +technical terms, who can profit by a brief and concise manual. +Beginners wish for a short and cheap book in which they may find a +full explanation of the leading facts and principles of Geology. +Their wants, I fear, somewhat resemble those of the old woman in +New England, who asked a bookseller to supply her with "the +cheapest Bible in the largest possible print."</p> + +<p>But notwithstanding the difficulty of reconciling brevity with +the copiousness of illustration demanded by those who have not yet +mastered the rudiments of the science, I have endeavoured to +abridge the work in the manner above hinted at, so as to place it +within the reach of many to whom it was before inaccessible.</p> + +<p class="rt">C<small>HARLES</small> L<small>YELL.</small></p> + +<p>73 Harley Street, London,<br> +<i>December, 1870.</i></p> + +<hr> +<h6><a href="contents.html">Contents</a></h6> +</body> +</html> + |