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MR. MALLET, in a memoir published in the Philosophical Transactions (vol. 163, p. 147), which has attracted attention as much for the boldness of its tone as for anything else, has.laid down the dictum that no sound progress can be made in geology unless the investigator be also mathematician, chemist, and physicist. Now, Murchison was none of these, yet he would be a bolder man than the writer of that memoir who should affirm that no sound progress was made in geology by him.
Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart., F.R.S. etc. Based on his Journals and Letters. With Notices of his Scientific Contemporaries and a Sketch of the Rise and Growth of Palæozoic Geology in Britain.
By Archibald Geikie, Director of H.M. Geological Survey of Scotland, and Murchison Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh. 2 vols. Illustrated with Portraits and Woodcuts. (London: John Murray, 1875.)
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Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart., F.R.S. etc. Based on his Journals and Letters. With Notices of his Scientific Contemporaries and a Sketch of the Rise and Growth of Palæozoic Geology in Britain . Nature 12, 21–24 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012021b0
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