Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, Band 5Society, 1880 |
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abundant Acanthodes Acanthodian Agassiz appears augite basalt beds birds Bowen River Carboniferous Caroline Park character Clarkei collection Collector.-R. L. Jack common corals Crioceras described Devonian dorsal valve Dr M'Bain dyke Earlsferry Edin Elie M'Bain Etheridge exhibited Firth fishes flagstones Foss fossils genus Geol Geological goosander Greville half tide hinge line inch island Joppa King's Cross Koninck Lady's Tower Lamlash Limestone Linn Litt localities Loch Longniddry low water M'Coy margin microliths miles Museum Naticopsis Nemagraptus nest observed occur Old Red Sandstone Orkney Palæozoic Permian phlogiston Physical Society Edinburgh pitchstone portion present Productus Professor Queensland referred River coalfield rocks Royal Physical Society Scotland Scottish seen septum shale shell shore side Silurian species specimens spines Station strata Strophalosia structure Strzelecki's surface tabulæ tion Upper lam ventral valve vitreous volcanic West Calder Zoantharia
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Seite 113 - FRS, Keeper of the Natural History collections in the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Seite 381 - 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 134 - 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 382 - From the SOCIETY. — Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.
Seite 228 - we cannot give any very satisfactory answer to this question, it is evident that the theory of the diminution of the water remains equally probable. We may be fully convinced of its truth, and are so, although we may not be able to explain it. To know from observation that a great phenomenon took place, is a very different thing from ascertaining how it happened.
Seite 329 - ... 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 221 - 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 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 223 - ... judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom from having kindled a fire and looked into the bottom of a little crucible.
Seite 277 - ... upon which are seated the tubular cells, at right angles, or a little obliquely to the former. This structure is exceedingly well shown in Mr Lonsdale's figure given in Count Strzelecki's work;-f but we are indebted for a further and fuller exposition of it to Professor W. King. This author showed...