DAWSON, J. W. [ Dawson, John William, Sir, 1820-1899 ] .: Life's Dawn On Earth: Being The History Of The Oldest Known Fossil Remains, And Their Relation To Geological Time And To The Development Of The Animal Kingdom. By J. W. Dawson. LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., Second Thousand. , London: Hodder & Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row, MDCCCLXXV. [ 1875 ].

A very clean book in the original cloth binding. 8vo. pp.12/pp.239 (i.e. pp.242). Green cloth covered boards. Front board with bright gilt titles and fossil illustration. Spine also with bright gilt titles (one small light green patch where a label has been removed). Original brown endpapers. Library label to verso of the front board: "Library Of The General Baptist Chapel, St. Benedict's Square, Lincoln. Thomas Cooper Memorial." Clean text and illustrations throughout (one coloured map and 3 coloured plates, 4 black & white plates, and 49 woodcuts within the text) . No marks or blemishes. Colophon to the bottom of the last leaf: "Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome and London." A very clean book. ** " Sir John William Dawson, (October 13, 1820 – November 19, 1899), was a Canadian geologist and university administrator. Sir William Dawson's name is especially associated with Eozoon canadense, which in 1865 he described as an organism having the structure of a foraminifer. It was found in the Laurentian rocks, regarded as the oldest known geological system. His views on the subject were contested at the time, and have since been disproven, the so-called organism being now regarded as a mineral structure. He was created CMG in 1881, and was knighted in 1884. In his books on geological subjects he maintained a distinctly theological attitude, declining to admit the descent or evolution of man from brute ancestors, and holding that the human species only made its appearance on this earth within quite recent times." - See Wikipedia . (Book ref. 36942)  £75.00

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