CHAPTER II

.--FORMATION OF SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIVE GEOLOGY.

_Sect._ 1. Discovery of the Order and Stratification of the Materials of the Earth. 511 _Sect._ 2. Systematic Form given to Descriptive Geology.--Werner. 513 _Sect._ 3. Application of Organic Remains as a Geological Character.--Smith. 515 _Sect._ 4. Advances in Palæontology.--Cuvier. 517 _Sect._ 5. Intellectual Characters of the Founders of Systematic Descriptive Geology. 520

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