Chapter I: Front Matter

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RELICS OF PRIMEVAL LIFE

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Two divisions or branches of a large specimen collected by Mr. E. T. Chambers in the Ordovician of Lake St. John. (See Appendix D.)

[_Frontis._

RELICS OF PRIMEVAL LIFE

BEGINNING OF LIFE IN THE DAWN OF GEOLOGICAL TIME

BY

SIR J. WILLIAM DAWSON LL.D., F.R.S., Etc.

_WITH SIXTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS_

NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

1897

_The substance of a Course of Lectures on Pre-Cambrian Fossils
delivered in the Lowell Institute, Boston, in November, 1895._

To

AUGUSTUS LOWELL Esq

_Vice-President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Trustee of the Lowell Institute_

AS THE WISE AND LIBERAL ADMINISTRATOR OF A NOBLE

ENDOWMENT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DIFFUSION

OF KNOWLEDGE

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED

WITH MUCH RESPECT AND ESTEEM

BY THE AUTHOR