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VI.—The Present State of the Archæan Controversy in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Charles Callaway
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The Archæan question in this country may be said to be about twelve years old. Rocks older than the Cambrian had indeed been recognized by Murchison and Sedgwick, and brief notices of Pre-Cambrian masses at St. Davids had been published by Salter, Harkness, and Hicks; but the Archæan campaign was formally opened by Dr. Hicks in a paper read before the Geological Society in November, 1876. The attack upon the old views was followed up by Prof. Bonney, the Rev. Edwin Hill, Prof. Hughes, and myself, and, more recently, by Prof. Lapworth and Prof. Blake. The defence has been conducted by Dr. A. Geikie. The controversy has been animated, and not without sensational incidents. Great diversity of opinion has existed even amongst the assailants, and many important divisions of the inquiry must be still regarded as unsettled.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 7 , July 1889, pp. 319 - 325
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1889

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