Abstract
PROF. WALTHER has set before himself an ambitious programme, which, if carried out, should result in a geological treatise of great interest; we fear also of portentous length. The first instalment is a modest little book of 200 pages, with a preface summarising the travels and researches which the author made for ten years with a view to fit himself for the task, and a separately paged introduction defining the scope of the contemplated work, and enunciating the ontological method in geology. Bionomy is the study of the life-habits of organisms in relation to their environment, and it is obvious that the bionomy of the ocean at the present time must be the clue to all deductions from the character of marine fossils regarding the physical conditions in which they were produced.
Bionomie des Meeres.
Von Johannes Walther. Erster Theil einer Einleitung in die Geologie als historische Wissenschaft. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1893.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 49, 244–245 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049244b0
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