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WE welcome a second impression of the useful little introduction to the study of fossils by Dr. Morley Davies. It is, indeed, a most practical handbook both for the student of geology and the amateur collector, and is admirably designed to give an insight into the methods of palaeontological science. It is not a systematic treatise on the various groups, but shows clearly how each is to be studied, and it provides a series of synoptical tables of classification which will suffice for those who are chiefly concerned with fossils as indicators of the age of rocks. There are also in the appendix synopses of the divisions of geological time and the stratigraphical distribution of fossils.
An Introduction to Palœontology.
By Dr. A. Morley Davies. Second impression. Pp. xiii + 414. (London: Thomas Murby and Co.; New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1925.)
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W., A. An Introduction to Palœontology . Nature 116, 933 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116933a0
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