“known ever since as Parkinson’s disease.” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 15, pp. 314-15.
“convinced that Scots were feckless drunks.” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 26.
“Once Mrs. Buckland found herself being shaken awake . . .” Annan, The Dons, p. 27.
“His other slight peculiarity . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 30.
“Often when lost in thought . . .” Desmond and Moore, Darwin, p. 202.
“but it was Lyell most people read . . .” Schneer, p. 139.
“and called for a new pack . . .” Clark, The Huxleys, p. 48.
“Never was there a dogma . . .” Quoted in Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack, p. 167.
“He failed to explain . . .” Hallam, Great Geological Controversies, p. 135.
“the refrigeration of the globe . . .” Gould, Ever Since Darwin, p. 151.
“He rejected the notion . . .” Stanley, Extinction, p. 5.
“one yet saw it partially through his eyes . . .” quoted in Schneer, p. 288.
“De la Beche is a dirty dog . . .” Quoted in Rudwick, The Great Devonian Controversy, p. 194.
“the perky name of J. J. d’Omalius d’Halloy.” McPhee, In Suspect Terrain, p. 190.
“to employ ‘-synchronous’ for his endings . . .” Gjertsen, p. 305.
“in the ‘tens of dozens.’ ” McPhee, In Suspect Terrain, p. 50.
“Rocks are divided into quite separate units . . .” Powell, p. 200.
“I have seen grown men glow incandescent . . .” Fortey, Trilobite! p. 238.
“When Buckland speculated . . .” Cadbury, p. 149.
“The most well known early attempt . . .” Gould, Eight Little Piggies, p. 185.
“most thinking people accepted the idea . . .” Gould, Time’s Arrow, p. 114.
“No geologist of any nationality . . .” Rudwick, p. 42.
“Even the Reverend Buckland . . .” Cadbury, p. 192.
“between 75,000 and 168,000 years old.” Hallam, p. 105; and Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, pp. 246-47.
“the geological processes that created the Weald . . .” Gjertsen, p. 335.
“The German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz . . .” Cropper, p. 78.
“and written (in French and English) a dozen papers . . .” Cropper, p. 79.
“At the age of twenty-two he returned to Glasgow . . .” Dictionary of National Biography, supplement 1901-1911, p. 508.
CHAPTER 6 SCIENCE RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW
“who described it at a meeting . . .” Colbert, The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discoveries, p. 4.
“the great French naturalist the Comte de Buffon . . .” Kastner, A Species of Eternity, p. 123.
“A Dutchman named Corneille de Pauw . . .” Kastner, p. 124.
“. . . in 1796 Cuvier wrote a landmark paper . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 15.
“Jefferson for one couldn’t abide the thought . . .” Simpson, Fossils and the History of Life, p. 7.
“On the evening of January 5, 1796 . . .” Harrington, Dance of the Continents, p. 175.
“The whys and wherefores . . .” Lewis, The Dating Game, pp. 17-18.
