The History of Geology: Suggestions for Further Research

In his Histoire naturelle, vol. i (1749), together with Preuves de la théorie de la terre, 65–612.

Originally published in the Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, tome xi (1808); afterwards, in an augmented form, in Mémoires de l'Institute imperial de France (1810 [1811]), the latter being re-issued separately, in 1811, with the addition of a preface.

In his De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus (Florence, 1669; English translations, London, 1671 and New York, 1916). See also The earliest geological treatise (1667) by Nicolaus Steno, translated and annotated by A. Garboe (London, 1958).

Published in The posthumous works of Robert Hooke (London, 1705) as “Lectures and discourses of earthquakes”, 279–450.

Merton R. K. , “Science in seventeenth-century England”, Osiris, iv (1938) 405.

See Eyles V. A. , “Since the Flood”, The Times literary supplement (30 December 1965) 1218; and “John Woodward, F.R.S. (1665–1728)”, Nature, ccvi (1965) 868–70.

Eyles V. A. , “Sir James Hall, Bt. (1761–1832)”, Endeavour, xx (1961) 210–16.

Arkiv fōr mineralogi och geologi: Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, Bd. i, Nr. i., Stockholm (1949).

The recently reprinted Catalogus bibliothecae historico-naturalis Josephi Banks, Tomus iv, Mineralogi (Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966) is also valuable, particularly as a source for articles in early periodicals.

“James Hutton: 1726–97. Commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death”, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Sect. B), lxiii, part iv (1950) 351–400; and Playfair John , “Biographical account of the late Dr James Hutton, F.R.S.Edin.”, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, v, part iii (1805) 39–99.

Aufrère L. , De Thalès à Davis. Le relief et la sculpture de la terre, tome iv, “La fin du xvni^e siècle”, part i, “Soulavie et son secret” (Paris, 1952).