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FOR more than thirty-five years Eozoon Canadense has been before geologists, and the evidence brought forward in support of its organic nature, and against it, has been sufficient to enable people competent to judge the question to arrive at a firm conclusion one way or the other. The case for Eozoon as a Laurentian fossil is stated by Sir William Dawson in this volume, and the observation of similar characteristics in decidedly mineral structures is either ingeniously explained, or the resemblance is declared to be illusory. The work represents the substance of a course of lectures on Pre-Cambrian fossils, delivered in the Lowell Institute, Boston, and will be read as much for the account it contains of early animal life, as for the debatable matters with which it deals.
Relics of Primeval Life.
By Sir J. William Dawson Pp. xiv + 336. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1897.)
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Relics of Primeval Life. Nature 55, 484 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/055484a0
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