London. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. 1834. pp. xii, 399. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled baords, spine a little dry. Some very faint minor foxing. Illustrated with graphs. 1st edition. ODNB. Henry Boase (1799 - 1883). He was the secretary to the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall from 1822 - 1827 and from 1833 - 1837. "In 1834 Boase published A Treatise on Primary Geology, intending to present his theory on the formation of granites before the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Edinburgh ... His ideas...were forcefully criticized by the established geologists...He argued that mineral veins were formed at the same time as the surrounding rocks, and that all had been formed by the action of water."

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