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원시생명의 유물의 책,지질학의 여명에서 생명의 시작.The Book of Relics of Primeval Life,Beginning of Life in the Dawn of Geological Time. by Sir J. William Dawson CONTENTS I PAGE 3 THE CHAIN OF LIFE TRACED BACKWARD IN GEOLOGICAL TIME II LIFE IN THE EARLY CAMBRIAN 17 III PRE-CAMBRIAN LIFE 47 IV FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONTINENTS, AND THEIR GENERAL TESTIMONY AS TO 79 LIFE V PROBABILITIES AS TO LAURENTIAN LIFE, AND CONDITIONS OF ITS PRESERVATION 107 VI THE HISTORY OF A DISCOVERY 125 VII THE DAWN OF LIFE 147 VIII CONTEMPORARIES OF EOZOON- xii - 193 IX DIFFICULTIES AND OBJECTIONS 221 X THE ORIGIN OF LIFE 245 XI SOME GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 281 APPENDIX A. GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF EOZOON, ETC. 295 B. ORGANIC REMAINS AND HYDROUS SILICATES 298 C. AFFINITIES OF EOZOON, ETC. 303 D. CRYPTOZOON 310 E. RECEPTACULITES AND ARCHÆOCYATHUS 315 F. PRE-GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION 320 G. CONTROVERSIES RESPECTING EOZOON 324 H. NOTES TO APPENDIX, DECEMBER, 1896 329

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원시생명의 유물의 책,지질학의 여명에서 생명의 시작.The Book of Relics of Primeval Life,Beginning of Life in the Dawn of Geological Time. by Sir J. William Dawson PREFACE I T is now more than thirty-five years since the announcement was made of the discovery of remains supposed to indicate the existence of animal life in the oldest rocks known to geologists. It was hailed with enthusiasm by some as "opening a new era in geological science"; but was regarded with scepticism by others, in consequence of the condition and mineral character of the supposed fossil, and because of the great interval in time between the oldest animal remains previously known and these new claimants for recognition. Since that time, many new facts have been learned, and the question has been under almost continuous discussion and debate, with various fortunes, in different quarters. - viii - The author was associated with the original discovery and description of these supposed earliest traces of life; and has since, in the intervals of other work, devoted much time to further exploration and research, the results of which have been published from time to time in the form of scientific papers. He has also given attention to the later discoveries which have tended to fill up the gap between the Laurentian fossil and its oldest known successors. In 1875 he endeavoured to sum up in a popular form what was then known, in a little volume named "The Dawn of Life," which has long been out of print; and in 1893 the matter was referred to in a chapter of his work "Salient Points in the Science of the Earth." In 1895 he was invited to present the subject to a large and intelligent audience in a course of lectures delivered in the Lowell Institute, Boston; and the success which attended these lectures has induced him to reproduce them in the present work, in the hope that inquiries into the Dawn of Life may prove as fascinating to general readers as to those who prosecute them as a - ix - matter of serious work, and that their presentation in this form may stimulate further research in a field which is destined in the coming years to add new and important domains to the knowledge of life in the early history of the earth. Hypotheses respecting the introduction and development of life are sufficiently plentiful; but the most scientific method of dealing with such questions is that of searching carefully for the earliest remains of living beings which have been preserved to us in the rocky storehouses of the earth. There are many earnest labourers in this difficult field, and it will be the object of the writer in the following pages to do justice to their work as far as known to him, as well as to state his own results. J. W. D.

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