...years. Therefore, reasons Sir William Thomson, who is said to be the first mathematician in Europe, " the existing state of things on the earth, life on the earth, and all geological history showing continuity of life, must be limited within some such period as a...

...years. Therefore, reasons Sir William Thomson, who is said to be the first mathematician in Europe, " the existing state of things on the earth, life on the earth, and all geological history showing continuity of life, must be limited within some such period as a...

...nevertheless they undoubtedly constitute a contribution of the first importance to physical geology. Whilst, then, we may protest against the precision with which...Tait seeks to deduce results from them, we are fully j ustified in following Sir William Thomson, who says that ' the existing state of things on the earth,...

...nevertheless they undoubtedly constitute a contribution of the first importance to physical geology. Whilst, then, we may protest against the precision with which Professor Tait seeks to deduce resuZts from them, we are fully justified in following Sir William Thomson, who says that ' the existing...

...nevertheless they undoubtedly constitute a contribution of the first importance to physical geology. Whilst, then, we may protest against the precision with which...existing state of things on the earth, life on the earth—all geological history showing continuity of life, must be limited within some such period...