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Coal
February 13, 1879 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Coal; Its History and Uses," edited by Professor Kenneth Thorpe. This book consists of ten popular lectures on five important subjects connected with coal. Lectures present in a sufficiently popular manner the different phases of a subject which, from every point of view, is most intimately interwoven with modern life. In the first four lectures the reader has spread before him the history of coal, beginning with the elements of stratigraphical geology, the special conditions of land, water, and vegetation that render possible the formation of coal in general, the special description of the coal-measures of Great Britain, and a description of the plants and animals of that period.

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COAL (Book); THORPE, Kenneth; COAL; LECTURES & lecturing; VEGETATION & climate; GREAT Britain
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