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Neolithic funereal adornments in County Kerry, southwest Ireland', Geology
Today 18, part 4 (2002), 139-143. Beliefs in classical times are recalled in
Adrienne Mayor, The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman
Times (Princeton University Press, 2000) and in Nikos Solounias and Adrienne
Mayor, 'Ancient references to the fossils from the land of Pythagoras', Earth
Sciences History 23, part 2 (2004), 283-296.
For a colourful account of the life and work of Alcide d'Orbigny see Philippe
Taquet, Un voyageur naturaliste Alcide d'Orbigny. Du nouveau monde ... au
passeĀ“ du monde (Paris: Nathan and MusĀ“ um National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2002).
Cecil Schneer has published a webpage on William Smith from which var-
ious documents including his Strata Identified by Fossils may be downloaded:
http://www.unh.edu/esci/wmsmith.html.
Samantha Weinberg gives a dramatic and highly readable account of the 1938
discovery of the coelacanth in A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the
Coelacanth (London: Fourth Estate, 1999).
An account of the ideas of Lamarck and Cuvier is given by Martin Rudwick,
The Meaning of Fossils; Episodes in the History of Palaeontology (University of
Chicago Press, 1985) from where (p. 119) I have taken the quotation regarding the
work of the former. Rudwick also discusses early ideas in palaeontology and also
those of Darwin on evolution. In Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological
Catastrophes (University of Chicago Press, 1997) Rudwick provides translations
and commentories on a number of Cuvier's more important publications.
Robert Chambers' Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was repub-
lished in 1994 by Chicago University Press, and this edition contains an introduc-
tion by James Secord. A short but useful history of palaeontology is contained in
Derek E. G. Briggs and Peter R. Crowther (eds.) Palaeobiology: A Synthesis (Oxford:
Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1990).
Chapter 10. The hour-glass of accumulated or denuded sediments
A short account of Herodotus' geological observations are given in Frank L. Kessler,
'Sailing up the Nile River - in the company of Herodotus, World's first geologist/
geographer, 2500 years ago', Houston Geological Society Bulletin 47, number 3
(2004), 14; 61.
John Phillips' ideas on the rates of sedimentation and their application to the
Earth's chronology were first published in his presidential address to the Geological
Society of London: 'The Anniversary Address of the President', Proceedings of the
Geological Society of London in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16
(1860), xxvii-lv. The chronological part of the address was expanded and appeared as
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