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IT is on record that Prof. Daly's students, in his practising days, used to chant “Every morning in the year, Daly has a new idea”. But Prof. Daly's claims to the gratitude of his scientific brethren lie as much in his popularization of the results of geological research as in his many contributions to its progress. In this volume he takes as his text a happy adaptation by the late Prof. P. Termier, director of the Geological Survey of France, “The earth declares the glory of God”, and succeeds in justifying it, telling his story in a manner that the intelligent layman can understand. In this matter of popular scientific writing, a trite remark from the author's preface is worth reproduction: such popularization of science requires “effort by the specialist to be an adequate reporter; effort by listener and reader to imagine”.
Architecture of the Earth
By Prof. Reginald Aldworth Daly. (Century Earth Science Series.) Pp. xiii + 211 + 47 plates. (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., 1938.) 12s. 6d. net.
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BOSWELL, P. Architecture of the Earth. Nature 144, 403 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144403a0
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