Occupation: Baronet Murchison Birth: February 22, 1792 Death: October 22, 1871
Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins..
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:-….
The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands….
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations..
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another, whole ra….
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, wh….
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from….