L'Évolution des Théories géologiques

Abstract

THIS is one of the most useful works that Prof. Stanislas Meunier has given to his geological colleagues, and at the same time it will be appreciated by the general reader. The latter, however, must be constantly on his guard, lest he cry out, “A hit, a very palpable hit,” every time that Prof. Meunier tilts against the theories of to-day. In an introduction intended to show the inexactitude of the works of nature when compared with the demands of mathematics, the author seems to include in the same order of things the forms of basalt columns and those of crystallised minerals; he rightly points out the irregularity of the former, but says of man (p. 12).

L'Évolution des Théories géologiques.

By Prof. S. Meunier. Pp. 366. (Paris: F. Alcan, 1911.) Price 3.50 francs.