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Roderick Murchison

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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871.

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Notable works: Siluria

About Roderick Murchison

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigating and describing the Silurian, Devonian and Permian systems.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses…

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Burial

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During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one…

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Adapted

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We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.

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Ancient

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Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a…

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Ancient

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The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation…

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Adaptation

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Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

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Geography

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The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of…

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Character

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