RECOMMENDATIONS. FROM PROF. J. W. BAILEY, OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT. "I have recently perused with much pleasure, your Elementary Geology, and consider it a most valuable contribution to science, and highly creditable to yourself and our country. I am glad we have such a work to which to refer students. If I had known of your publication sooner, I should have adopted it as our text book; but the class had already provided themselves with Lyell's work. I shall recommend its adoption next year, if, as is almost certain, I meet with no work in the meantime better suited to our peculiar wants at this Institution. FROM PROF. C. B. ADAMS, OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. "Your elementary book on geology has afforded me great pleasure; and I have, since our catalogue was printed, adopted it as a text book." The following notices of the work, from among the many that have appeared, have been selected from some of the leading periodicals of the country. FROM THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS, FOR OCTOBER, 1840. "The readers of this Journal and those who know the progress of American Geology, are well aware of the important services Prof. Hitchcock has rendered to this branch of science, through a period of many years, both by his laborious explorations and his written works. In the present instance, he has attempted to prepare a work which shall fill a vacancy long felt by the instructors of geology in this country, a work which, while it gives a good view of the progress of the science in other countries, draws its illustrations mainly from American facts. From the rapid glance which we have been able to bestow upon this performance, we should think that Prof. Hitchcock had succeeded in imparting this feature to his book." FROM THE AMERICAN BIBLICAL REPOSITORY, FOR OCTOBER, 1840. "The appearance of this volume from the pen of Prof. Hitchcock, will be peculiarly gratifying to many in the community. It is designed to be used as a Text Book for classes in geology, in colleges and other seminaries of learning, and also to supply the wants of the general reader, who has not the leisure to study the numerous and extended treatises that have been written on different heads of this subject. The plan of it, we think, is admirably adapted to the first of these uses, and nearly or quite as well suited to the second." FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, FOR JANUARY, 1841. "Professor Hitchcock has been too long and favorably known to scientific men, both of the new world and of the old, to make it necessary for us to say, with what ample qualifications he undertakes the task before him. His work is no 'secondary formation,' based on the published works of European writers, but in every part bears the impress of acute and original observation, and happy tact in presenting the immense variety of subjects treated in the following sections into which the book is divided. "The fifth section is devoted to Organic Remains. It occupies one fourth of the whole work, and is illustrated with the best cuts in the book. We venture to say that there is not in our language so neat and compressed, yet so clear and correct an account of the 'Wonders of Geology.'" ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY. BY EDWARD HITCHCOCK, D.D., LL.D., PRESIDENT OF AMHERST COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF NATURAL THEOLOGY AND GEOLOGY. A NEW EDITION, REVISED, ENLARGED, AND ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT ADVANCED WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTICE, BY JOHN PYE SMITH, D.D., F.R.S., & F.G.S., DIVINITY TUTOR IN THE COLLEGE AT HOMERTON, LONDON. TWENTY-FIFTH EDITION. NEW YORK: IVISON & PHINNEY, 178 FULTON STREET; AUBURN; J. O. IVISON & CO. DETROIT: A. M'FARREN. |