A Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks, With a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic Fossils in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge.

Sedgwick, Rev. Adam & McCoy, Frederick.

Published by Cambridge University Press for John W. Parker, London & Deighton Bell, Cambridge., 1855

Quarto: xcviii, viii, (2), 1-661, (1), viii pp. 25 full page lithograph plates, 2 double page, each with a page of explanatory text. Unobtrusive embossed stamp of Oldham Public Libraries on title page and many plates. Light waterstain to blank corners of first few pages. Half-calf, spine gilt, marbled end-papers and edges. Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), one of the founders of modern geology, was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge from 1818 until his death. During his career, advances in stratigraphy and palaeontology revolutionised the subject, and Sedgwick participated in heated controversies about the classification of the oldest rocks. His fieldwork companions included John Stevens Henslow, Roderick Murchison and the young Charles Darwin, and the specimens he acquired propelled the Cambridge geological collection to international importance. Sedgwick invited a young Irish palaeontologist, Frederick McCoy (1821-99), to catalogue the collection. Sedgwick oversaw the publication in 1855 of McCoy's catalogue of Palaeozoic fossils and wrote the substantial introduction which included an elaborate defence of his Cambrian system. Seller Inventory # AL500

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Title: A Synopsis of the Classification of the ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press for John W. Parker, London & Deighton Bell, Cambridge.
Publication Date: 1855
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good