TO THE READER.
CONTENTS.
LIGNOGRAPHS.
LITHOGRAPHS.
THOUGHTS ON A PEBBLE.
PART I.
MORE THOUGHTS ON A PEBBLE.
PART II.
THE NAUTILUS and the AMMONITE.
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES.
Note I. Page 13. Shells in Chalk.
Note II. Page 17. Wood in Flint.
Note III. Page 20. Whitby Ammonites. >
Note IV. Page 23. Fossil Nautili.
Note V. Page 27. Brighton Cliffs.
Note VI. Page 38. RotaliAE in Chalk and Flint.
Note VII. Page 43. Isle of Wight Pebbles.
Note VIII. Page 45. Zoophytes of the Chalk.
Note IX. Page 50. Minute Corals from Chalk.
Note X. Page 53. Infusorial earth from Richmond in Virginia.
REEVE, BENHAM, AND REEVE,
PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS OF SCIENTIFIC WORKS,
KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.
Painted by J. J. Masquerier.
Engraved by Samuel Stepney.
GIDEON ALGERNON MANTELL, L.L.D. F.R.S
Vice-President of the Geological Society &c. &c.
THOUGHTS
ON A
PEBBLE,
OR,
A FIRST LESSON IN GEOLOGY.
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BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY."
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The Nautilus and the Ammonite. Vide,
p. 57.
"There is no picking up a pebble by the brook-side, without finding all nature in connexion with it."
Contemplations of Nature.
EIGHTH EDITION; WITH THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS.
LONDON:
REEVE, BENHAM, AND REEVE, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.
1849.
TO
MY SON,
Reginald Nebille Mantell, C.E.,
THESE
"THOUGHTS ON A PEBBLE"
ARE MOST AFFECTIONATELY
INSCRIBED.
LONDON,
19, CHESTER SQUARE, PIMLICO.
1849.
"Every grain of sand is an immensity—every leaf a world—every insect an assemblage of incomprehensible effects in which reflection is lost."
Lavater.
"To the natural philosopher there is no natural object that is unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons. The fall of an apple to the ground may raise his thoughts to the laws which govern the revolutions of the planets in their orbits; or the situation of a pebble may afford him evidence of the state of the globe he inhabits, myriads of ages before his species became its denizens."
Sir J. F. W. Herschel.
