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On a Piece of Chalk was a lecture given by Thomas Henry Huxley on 26 August 1868 to the working men of Norwich during a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It was published as an essay in Macmillan's Magazine in London later that year.
- Thomas Henry Huxley, Loren Eiseley, Rudolf Freund
- Non-fiction
- 1868
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ON A PIECE OF CHALK [1868] Thomas Henry Huxley; Book: Collected Essays; Online publication: 05 November 2012; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139149273.002
On a Piece of Chalk. Macmillan's Magazine (1868) . Collected Essays VIII [1] If a well were sunk at our feet in the midst of the city of Norwich, the diggers would very soon find themselves at work in that white substance almost too soft to be called rock, with which we are all familiar as "chalk."
On A Piece Of Chalk is a scientific essay written by Thomas Henry Huxley, a prominent biologist and naturalist in the late 19th century. The essay was originally delivered as a lecture to...
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Kessinger Publishing, 2005
- reprint
- On a Piece of Chalk
On a Piece of Chalk. By Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 1895) From ‘Collected Essays,’ Vol. viii. A GREAT chapter of the history of the world is written in the chalk.
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. On a Piece of Chalk was a lecture given by Thomas Henry Huxley on 26 August 1868 to the working men of Norwich during a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It was published as an essay in Macmillan's Magazine in London later that year.
A PIECE OF CHALK 197 the Chalk, and at long last a shallow-water origin definitely sug-gested. But, recently, Maurice Black has carried out a thorough investigation of the conditions of formation of this drewite, as it has been called, in the Bahamas, and has discovered that it consists of finely crystallized aragonite, the orthorhombic form of ...
