Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants: The Wealden Flora
A. C. Seward
Seward's descriptions of the algae, fungi and ferns of the Wealden beds, with eleven plates. A close look at what the landscape around the early Cretaceous dinosaurs actually grew.
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Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep TimeFourteen essays on how paleontology reached the public, from Victorian museum halls to Gertie the Dinosaur and Jurassic Park. It shows how the science of deep time turned into popular culture, and what that did back to the science.
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A full outline of paleontological science organized by geological period. Nicholson walks the fossil record forward from the Cambrian, explaining what each layer of strata holds and how it is read.
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Huxley's popular lectures on evolution, fossils and geologic time, written to be understood without a science degree. His essay on the method of Zadig is still one of the clearest accounts of how a paleontologist reasons from a bone to an animal.
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A Victorian narrative of Earth history from the Precambrian to the arrival of humans, written by a working geologist for general readers. Dawson argued against Darwin, so the book also shows how the fossil record was fought over in its own day.
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The book that founded vertebrate paleontology. Cuvier argues from fossil bones that whole species have vanished, and sets out the comparative anatomy method still used to rebuild extinct animals. This edition adds observations on the geology of North America.
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