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MURCHISON, Roderick Impey (1792-1871). The Silurian System. London: John Murray, 1839.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (315 x 245mm). 14 lithographic and 2 engraved plates, of these 2 folding and 3 hand-coloured, 9 folding hand-coloured geological sections, and 31 engraved plates of fossils. (Occasional spotting, mainly affecting early leaves and final plates, without the accompanying large 3-sheet map.) Contemporary half calf, spine elaborately gilt with morocco label, marbled edges (extremities slightly rubbed).
‘An important milestone in geology, for it established the oldest fossil-bearing classification then known’ (ODNB). Murchison received substantial help from Arthur Aikin with notes on Shropshire, and as Norman states, Murchison’s geological research in the Welsh borderland and South Wales brought to an end the confusion hitherto surrounding the so-called Transition rocks. ‘Murchison was the first to establish a uniform sequence of Transition strata, to which he gave the name 'Silurian' after a British tribe; these strata constituted a major system with uniform fossil remains, displaying an abundance of invertebrates and a complete lack ... of the remains of vertebrates or land plants’ (Norman 1596). This had vast implications for the evolutionary history of the earth. BM(NH) III, 1380; Challinor 141; Dibner Heralds 97; Norman 1569; Ward & Carozzi 1620.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (315 x 245mm). 14 lithographic and 2 engraved plates, of these 2 folding and 3 hand-coloured, 9 folding hand-coloured geological sections, and 31 engraved plates of fossils. (Occasional spotting, mainly affecting early leaves and final plates, without the accompanying large 3-sheet map.) Contemporary half calf, spine elaborately gilt with morocco label, marbled edges (extremities slightly rubbed).
‘An important milestone in geology, for it established the oldest fossil-bearing classification then known’ (ODNB). Murchison received substantial help from Arthur Aikin with notes on Shropshire, and as Norman states, Murchison’s geological research in the Welsh borderland and South Wales brought to an end the confusion hitherto surrounding the so-called Transition rocks. ‘Murchison was the first to establish a uniform sequence of Transition strata, to which he gave the name 'Silurian' after a British tribe; these strata constituted a major system with uniform fossil remains, displaying an abundance of invertebrates and a complete lack ... of the remains of vertebrates or land plants’ (Norman 1596). This had vast implications for the evolutionary history of the earth. BM(NH) III, 1380; Challinor 141; Dibner Heralds 97; Norman 1569; Ward & Carozzi 1620.
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