Discourses Biological and Geological

Fourteen 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.

Chris Manias

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.

H. Alleyne Nicholson

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.

John William Dawson