Relics of Primeval Life: Beginning of Life in the Dawn of Geological Time by Dawson

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Author Dawson, John William, Sir, 1820-1899
Title Relics of Primeval Life: Beginning of Life in the Dawn of Geological Time
Original Publication United States: FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY,1897.
Note "The substance of a course of lectures on pre-Cambrian fossils, delivered in the Lowell Institute, Boston, in November, 1895."
Note Eozoon canadense at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eozoon_canadense
Contents The chain of life traced backward in geological time -- Life in the early Cambrian -- Pre-Cambrian life -- Foundations of the continents, and their general testimony as to life -- Probabilities as to Laurentian life, and conditions of its preservation -- The history of a discovery -- The dawn of life -- Contemporaries of Eozoon -- Difficulties and objections -- The origin of life -- Some general conclusions -- Appendix.
Credits Tom Cosmas produced from materials provided at The Internet Archive and placed in the Public Domain.
Language English
LoC Class QE: Science: Geology
Subject Life -- Origin
Subject Paleontology -- Precambrian
Subject Eozoon canadense
Subject Paleontology -- Canada
Subject Geology, Stratigraphic -- Precambrian
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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