Select Books on Geology

Kirwin's Mineralogy, and his Geological Essays.—De Luc's Geology, and his Geological Travels.—Parkinson's Organic Remains of a former world, 3 vols., 4to.—The Fossils of the South Downs, or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, by G. Mantel, F.L.S.—The preliminary Essay to this splendid Work contains several excellent remarks respecting the connection of Geology with Religion, which are calculated to advance the interests of both.—Cuvier's Essay on the theory of the Earth, with Illustrations by Professor Jamieson, 4th edition.—Playfair's Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth.—Transactions of the Geological and Wernerian Societies.—Dr. P. Smith's Lectures on Geology as connected with Revelation.—Dr. Hitchcock's Treatise on Geology—his Connection between Geology and Natural Religion—and his Connection between Geology and the Mosaic Account of the Creation.—Lyell's Geology.—Buckland and Babbage's Bridgewater Treatises.—Macculloch's System of Geology.—Hugh Miller's Old Red Sandstone.—Buckland's Account of the discovery of a Den of Hyenas in a cavern in Yorkshire.—Buckland's Treatise on Geology, 2 vols., 8vo.—Bakewell's Introduction to Geology.—Phillips's Outlines of Mineralogy and Geology, 12mo.—This last work forms a good introduction to the study of Geology, for those who are just commencing their inquiries on this subject. The object of this science, in the meantime, should be confined chiefly to the collecting of facts, in reference to the structure of the earth and the changes it has undergone. The exterior aspect of our globe, and its internal recesses, must be still more extensively explored, before any theory of the earth can be established on a broad and solid foundation. It should be left to future age to build a system with the materials we are now preparing.