EVER since its appearance more than thirty years ago, “Lake and Rastall” has been recognized as our leading elementary text-book on geology. Now, in its fifth edition, it has been carefully revised ...

Let me start by defending geology’s honor. Is there any other discipline that a rhyme so easily reduces to ridicule? Nearly every campus has some version of “rocks for jocks,” the intro geology course ...

THESE three books are written with an educational purpose, and are kept within the limifs of size suitable for schools. They alike bear witness to the prominent place taken by geology in the outlook ...