Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, Band 5Society, 1880 |
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Acanthodes Acanthodian Agassiz algæ appears augite basalt beds birds Bowen River British Carboniferous Caroline Park cast character Clarkei collection Collector.-R. L. Jack common corals Crioceras Davidson described Devonian discovery dorsal valve Dr M'Bain dyke Earlsferry Edin Edinburgh Elie M'Bain Etheridge exhibited Firth fish flagstones Foss fossils genus Geol Geological goosander Greville hinge line inches island Islay Joppa Koninck Lady's Tower Lamlash Leith Limestone Linn Litt localities Loch low water M'Coy margin microliths miles Museum Naticopsis Nemagraptus nest observed occur Old Red Sandstone Orkney Palæozoic Pelican Creek Permian phlogiston pitchstone portion present Productus Professor Queensland referred River coalfield rocks Royal Physical Society Scotland seen septum shale shell shore side Silurian South Wales species specimens spines Spirifera Station strata Street Strophalosia structure Strzelecki's surface tabulæ tion Upper lam ventral valve vitreous volcanic Zoantharia
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Seite 339 - Bulletin of the US Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Vol. V., No. 3. WHEATON— Dr. Wheaton's Report on the Birds of Ohio, Geological Survey of Ohio, Zoology and Botany, Vol. IV. BECKHAM.— Beckham's List of the Birds of Nelson County, Kentucky; Kentucky Geological Survey, 1885.
Seite 120 - I procured this autumn, most artificially platted, and composed of the blades of wheat; perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball; with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that there was no discovering to what part it belonged. It was so compact and well filled, that it would roll across the table without being discomposed, though it contained eight little mice that were naked and blind.
Seite 129 - ... probably identical with the Dipterus macropterygius of Professor Sedgwick and Mr Murchison," but from the figure it is impossible to hazard a guess as to the genus to which it really belongs. Another (fig. 3), of which he says that, " in external appearance it bears a very close resemblance to some of the scales on the common sturgeon," looks like a plate of Pterichthys major.
Seite 301 - ... of a system regarded only a few years ago as the least fossiliferous in the geologic scale, there are more fossil fish enclosed than in every other geologic system in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the Coal Measures to the Chalk inclusive. Orkney is emphatically to the geologist what a juvenile Shetland poetess designates her country, in challenging for it a standing independent of the
Seite 193 - The sight of objects which verified at once so many important conclusions in his system, filled him with delight; and as his feelings, on such occasions, were always strongly expressed, the guides who accompanied him were convinced that it must be nothing less than the discovery of a vein of silver or gold, that could call forth such strong marks of joy and exultation.
Seite 255 - The punctffi on the exterior of the shells appear as small rugosities scattered at random over the surface of the ribs or striae and intervening valleys ornamenting these shells, but when worn to any extent their perforate character at once becomes apparent.
Seite 27 - From what has been said there seems the utmost reason to think, that dephlogisticated air is only water deprived of its phlogiston, and that inflammable air, as was before said, is either phlogisticated water, or else pure phlogiston ; but in all probability the former.
Seite 341 - Society. Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, Vol.
Seite 195 - superficial reasoning men who judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom from having kindled a fire and looked into the bottom of a little crucible."^ But, though unconvinced, Hall, out of deference to his master's feelings, forbore to put his design into execution.
Seite 76 - Corallum composed of corallites constituting vertical laminae or fasciculi, but more or less free laterally, and united by means of connecting tubes or mural expansions; walls well developed and not porous ; septa distinct, but small.