Thomas Rupert Jones

“ Schafhäutl, Sorby, Ehrenberg, Reade, Bryson, and others, have worked at this subject in their own several ways, and it is to be hoped that not only will these older labourers continue to work in "Microgeology" or "Clinology," as the study is termed, but that others, with equal patience and acumen, will come forward to labour in this wide and promising, but as yet little cultivated field of research. ”

“ The careful microscopical examination of a good series of successive deposits, in the way that Ave propose, cannot but be useful both to the geologist and the palæontologist. The conditions of deposit will be elucidated by the proportions of fine and coarse materials in the beds ”