BEGINNING OF LIFE IN THE
DAWN OF GEOLOGICAL TIME
BY
WITH SIXTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
1897
The substance of a Course of Lectures on Pre-Cambrian Fossils
delivered in the Lowell Institute, Boston,
in November, 1895.
To
AUGUSTUS LOWELL Esq
Vice-President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Trustee of the Lowell Institute
AS THE WISE AND LIBERAL ADMINISTRATOR OF A NOBLE
ENDOWMENT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DIFFUSION
OF KNOWLEDGE
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED
WITH MUCH RESPECT AND ESTEEM
BY THE AUTHOR