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LIMESTONE takes high rank among those common things the proper understanding of which leads one into a wide circle of the sciences. In a British Association lecture at Norwich in 1868 βOn a piece of chalk,β Huxley declared that any one who acquired a knowledge of the history of a piece of chalk had a far truer conception of the universe, and man's relation to it, than one well-read in human records and ignorant of those of Nature. This statement by Huxley concerning a piece of chalk applies with added force to the natural history and uses of limestones as a whole; for it should be emphasised that the use of limestone contributes very largely, and in ways too numerous to mention, to the well-being of civilised communities. It was therefore fitting that, in his recent presidential address to the Washington Academy of Sciences (Journal, 1924, vol. 14, No. 14), Dr. T. W. Vaughan gave a prominent place to a consideration of the origin of limestones.
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CROOK, T. The Origin of Limestones. Nature 114, 733β734 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114733a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114733a0