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Excerpt from The Universe: In Brief, as I Understand It, With a Description of Earth and Development of Man
The authorities I shall have occasion to use during my brief description of the Earth and Universewill be mentioned at this time, and are as follows: Silliman, Grove, Dana, Proctor, Burritt, Mayer, Tyndall, Bakewell, Helmholtz, Denton, Reclus, Farraday, Shaler, Geyot, Niles. Humboldt, Johnson, Guillemin, Russell, iaplace, Nichols, Darwin, Lardner, Wood, Young, Gore, Clerke, Lockyer, etc.
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