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APPENDIX B BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Chapter I

Thomson (Kelvin). Rep. Brit. Ass., p. 1819. 1855.

—— Proc. Glasgow Phil. Soc., Vol. IV, p. 272. 1860.

—— Phil. Mag., February, 1862, p. 158. 1861.

—— Popular Lectures and Addresses [P.L.A.], Vol. I, p. 349. 1862.

—— Natural Philosophy, Appendix D.

—— P.L.A., Vol. II, p. 6. 1865.

—— P.L.A., Vol. II, p. 10. 1868.

Huxley. Presidential Address, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1869.

Thomson. P.L.A., Vol. II, p. 73. 1869.

—— P.L.A., Vol. II, p. 238. 1876.

—— P.L.A., Vol. I, p. 369. 1887.

King. Am. Journ. Science, p. 1. 1893.

Correspondence in Nature. Perry, Kelvin, Tait.

January 3rd, March 7th, April 18th. 1895.

Poulton. Rep. Brit. Ass., p. 808. 1896.

Kelvin. Phil. Mag., January, 1899, p. 66. 1897.

Correspondence in Nature. 1903.

Wilson. July 9th.

Darwin. September 24th.

Joly. October 1st.

Correspondence in Nature.

Kelvin, Strutt, Lodge, etc. September 20th. 1906.

For other references see below.

Chapter II

Chamberlin and Salisbury. Geology, Vol. II, Chaps. I and II. 1909.

T. C. Chamberlin and other Writers. The Tidal Problem.

Carnegie Inst. of Washington. Pub. No. 107. 1909.

Darwin. The Tides. 1911.

Poincaré. Hypothèses cosmogoniques. Paris. 1911.

Chapter III

Croll. Phil. Mag. May, 1868.

—— Climate and Time. 1875.

De Geer. Geol. Fören i Stockholm Föhr Band 32. 1910.

Gilbert. Journ. of Geol., Vol. III, p. 121. 1895.

Lowell. Evolution of Worlds, p. 197. 1910.

Sederholm. Bull. Comm. Géol. de Finlande, No. 30, pp. 7-15. 1911.

Sollas. Ancient Hunters. 1911.

Chapter IV

Babb. Science, Vol. XXI, p. 343. 1893.

Clarke. Data of Geo. Chemistry. Geol. Sur., U.S.A. Bull. 491.

—— Smith. Misc. Collect., Vol. LVI, No. 5. 1910.

Dittmar. Challenger Report, Vol. I, p. 203. 1884.

Dole and Stabler. Water Supply Papers. Geol. Sur., U.S.A.,

Nos. 234 and 236. 1910.

Geikie. Trans. Geol. Soc., Glasgow, p. 153. 1868.

Humphreys and Abbott. Physics and Hydraulics of Mississippi River,

p. 148. 1876.

Merrill. Rocks, Rock weathering and Soils. 1897.

Murray. Scot. Geog. Mag., Vol. III, p. 65. 1887.

—— Scot. Geog. Mag., Vol. IV, p. 38. 1888.

Reade. Chemical Denudation in Relation to Geological Time. 1901.

Russell. River Development. 1898.

Schwarz. Causal Geology. 1910.

Tylor. Phil. Mag., April, p. 258. 1853.

Chapter V

Ackroyd. Chem. News, p. 265. 1901.

—— Geol. Mag., p. 445 and p. 558. 1901.

Becker. Science, Vol. XXXI, p. 459. 1910.

—— Smith. Misc. Collect., Vol. LVI, No. 6. 1910.

Clarke. Smith. Misc. Collect., Vol. LVI, No. 5. 1910.

—— Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., p. 214. 1912.

Fisher. Geol. Mag., p. 124 and p. 132. 1900.

Halley. Phil. Trans., Vol XXIX, p. 296. 1715.

Hanamann. Landesdurchforschung Böhmens. Archiv. Natur.,

Vol. IX. Vol. X. 1894. 1898.

—— Cited in Clarke’s Data, 2nd ed., p. 92.

Joly. Trans. Roy. Soc., Dublin, Vol. VII, p. 23. 1899.

—— Rep. Brit. Ass., p. 369. 1900.

—— Geol. Mag., p. 344 and p. 504. 1901.

—— Radioactivity and Geology, p. 236. 1909.

—— Phil. Mag., p. 357. September, 1911.

Karsten. Inaug. Diss., Kiel. 1894.

Rudzki. Bull. Acad. Sci., Cracovie. February, 1901.

Sollas. Presidential Address, Quar. Journ. Geol. Soc.,

Vol. LXV. 1909.

Chapter VI

Blake. Geol. Mag., p. 72. 1903.

Croll. Stellar Evolution, p. 48. 1889.

Geikie. Rep. Brit. Ass. 1892.

—— Nature. August 4th, 1892.

—— Rep. Brit. Ass., p. 727. 1899.

Haughton. Manual of Geology, p. 101. 1871.

—— Nature, p. 266. 1878.

Holmes. Nature. July 6th, 1911.

Joly. Radioactivity and Geology. 1909.

de Lapparent. Bull. Soc. Géol. de France,

Vol. XVIII, p. 351. 1890.

—— Géologie, p. 225, p. 261, and p. 1958. 1906.

Lyell. Principles. Tenth Edn., Vol. I, p. 301. 1867.

McGee. Science, Vol. XXI, p. 309. 1893.

Phillips. Life on the Earth, p. 119. 1860.

Reade. Geol. Mag., p. 99. 1893.

Sederholm. Naturen, Helsingfors, Nos. 33 and 34. 1897.

Sollas. Nature. April 4th, 1895.

—— Rep. Brit. Ass., p. 711. 1900.

—— The Age of the Earth and other Geological Studies. 1905.

—— Presidential Address, Quar. Journ. Geol. Soc.,

Vol. LXV. 1909.

Upham. Am. Journ. Science, Vol. XLV, p. 217. 1893.

Walcott. Journ. Geol., Vol. I, p. 675. 1893.

Watts. Presidential Address, Quar. Journ. Geol. Soc.,

Vol. LXVII. 1911.

Wallace. Island Life, p. 222. 1892.

Winchell. World Life, Chicago, p. 378. 1883.

Chapter VII

Mme. Curie. Traité de Radioactivité. 1910.

Ramsay and Soddy. Proc. Roy. Soc. A., Vol. LXXII, p. 204. 1903.

Russell. Proc. Roy. Soc. A., Vol. LXXXVI, p. 240. 1912.

Rutherford. Radioactive Substances. 1912.

Rutherford and Soddy. Phil. Mag., Vol. IV, p. 582. 1902.

Rutherford and Geiger. Proc. Roy. Soc. A., Vol. LXXXI, p. 151. 1908.

Rutherford and Royds. Phil. Mag., Vol. XVII, p. 281. 1909.

Whytlaw-Gray and Ramsay. Proc. Roy. Soc. A., Vol. LXXXVI,

p. 270. 1912.

Chapter VIII

Abbott. The Sun. 1910.

Arrhenius. The Life of the Universe, Vol. II, p. 193.

Helmholtz. Phil. Mag., p. 516. 1856.

Rutherford and Soddy. Phil. Mag. May, 1903.

Chapter IX

Becker. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., p. 113. 1908.

—— Smith. Inst. Misc. Collect., Vol. LVI, No. 6.

Buchner. Proc. Konink. Akad. van Wetensch. te Amsterdam.

October, 1910, February, 1911, and April, 1912.

Chamberlin. Journ. Geol., p. 674. 1911.

Eve and McIntosh. Phil. Mag. August, 1907.

—— Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, p. 69. 1910.

Farr and Florance. Phil. Mag. November, 1909.

Fletcher. Phil. Mag. July, 1910.

—— Phil. Mag. January, 1911.

—— Phil. Mag. June, 1911.

—— Phil. Mag. February. 1912.

Joly. Rep. Brit. Ass., p. 677. 1908.

—— Radioactivity and Geology, 1909.

—— Phil. Mag. October, 1909.

—— Phil. Mag. July and August, 1910.

—— Phil. Mag. July, 1911.

—— Cong. Internat. de Rad. and d’Elec., p. 370. 1911.

—— Phil. Mag. February, 1912.

—— Phil. Mag. October, 1912.

King. Am. Journ. Science, p. 1. 1893.

Strutt. Proc. Roy. Soc. A., Vol. LXXIX, p. 472. 1906.

—— Proc. Roy. Soc. A., Vol. LXXXIV, p. 377. 1910.

Suzuki. Proc. Math.-Phys. Soc., Tokyo, p. 204. 1912.

Chapter X

Becker. Bull. Geol. Soc., Am., Vol. XIX, p. 113. 1908.

Boltwood. Am. Journ. Science, p. 260. 1905.

—— Am. Journ. Science, Vol. XXIII, p. 77. 1907.

Boltwood and Rutherford. Phil. Mag., Vol. XXII, p. 586. 1911.

Dewar. Proc. Roy. Soc. A., Vol. LXXXI, p. 280. 1908.

—— Proc. Roy. Soc. A., Vol. LXXXIII, p. 404, 1910.

Holmes. Proc. Roy. Soc. A., Vol. LXXXV, p. 248, 1911.

Joly. Radioactivity and Geology, p. 211. 1909.

—— Phil. Mag. September, 1911.

Kœnigsberger. Geol. Rundschau, Vol. I, p. 245. 1910.

Rutherford. Radioactivity, p. 486. 1905.

Strutt. The Accumulation of Helium.

—— Proc. Roy. Soc. A., Vol. LXXXI, p. 272. 1908.

—— —— Vol. LXXXII, p. 166. 1909.

—— —— Vol. LXXXIII, p. 96. 1910.

—— —— Vol. LXXXIII, p. 298. 1910.

—— —— Vol. LXXXIV, p. 195. 1910.

—— —— Vol. LXXXIV, p. 380. 1910.

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