"Imperfect as is the , how infinitely more imperfect must necessarily be our knowledge of that record! The largest s, , and other excavations made by man, are in themselves relatively insignificant scratches on the surface of the vast mass of fossil-bearing rocks, but yet how small a fraction of the material obtained in such excavations ever passes under the detailed scrutiny of the palaeontologist."
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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomUniversity of Cambridge alumniFellows of the Royal SocietyUniversity of Edinburgh alumniUniversity of Glasgow faculty
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John Graham Kerr
, , , (published as J. Graham Kerr; 18 September 1869 – 21 April 1957) was a British , at the , and (MP).
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