Anderson, John. The Course of Creation, with a Glossary of Scientific Terms. Cincinnati: Wm. H. Moore & Co., 1851. First Edition. [10095]
Blue publisher's cloth stamped in blind, binding very good, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Bookplate, oval stamp on tp, "Divinity School Library, Harvard University." 384 pp., foxing throughout, one center section pulled but not detached. Good. Hardcover.
No. 27 in McIver, Anti-Evolution: An Annotated Bibliography. "Cited in Millhauser as advocating Day-Age creationism."
Published 8 years before Darwin's Origin of Species, the author says that the study of geology has in every aspect led to his belief in God and His marvelous creation. Includes a review of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, by Chambers, and how the Mosaic account of creation is reconcilable with the science of geology.
Rev. Dr. John Anderson (1796-1864), Church of Scotland minister, amateur archaeologist and geologist, an elected Fellow of the Geological Society of London. Anderson discovered fossil fish in the yellow sandstone at Dura Den and through lectures and scientific papers was responsible for revealing this important site to the world. Some of his discoveries are on display at the Bell-Pettigrew Museum of Natural History at the University of St. Andrews.