Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology, 1. köideJames Samuelson, William Crookes J. Churchill and Sons, 1864 |
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... means opened up to the extent of its capabilities , and for the most part presents the aspect of rich forest scenery , with only an occasional coal - pit chimney at wide intervals rising in the midst of the trees . Its area is 34 square ...
... means opened up to the extent of its capabilities , and for the most part presents the aspect of rich forest scenery , with only an occasional coal - pit chimney at wide intervals rising in the midst of the trees . Its area is 34 square ...
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... means of a Telegra- phic Cable . With a view to ascertain the general contour and com- position of the portion of the Atlantic it was proposed to traverse , an expedition was sent by the Government of the United States , to sound from ...
... means of a Telegra- phic Cable . With a view to ascertain the general contour and com- position of the portion of the Atlantic it was proposed to traverse , an expedition was sent by the Government of the United States , to sound from ...
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... means from the superincumbent waters ; have been deposited by floating ice during past periods of the earth's history ; must occur in beds which were once exposed above the sur- face of the sea ; or be drifting about the bottom through ...
... means from the superincumbent waters ; have been deposited by floating ice during past periods of the earth's history ; must occur in beds which were once exposed above the sur- face of the sea ; or be drifting about the bottom through ...
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... means of a separate observation taken upon the same spot , the bottom was found to consist almost entirely of the minute shell - covered organisms already referred to ; and , taking into consideration the fact that many of the shells ...
... means of a separate observation taken upon the same spot , the bottom was found to consist almost entirely of the minute shell - covered organisms already referred to ; and , taking into consideration the fact that many of the shells ...
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... means of these feelers it performs the movements of which it is capable , and , in all probability , is enabled to provide itself with food . Hence it will be understood why it was stated , in a former portion of these observations ...
... means of these feelers it performs the movements of which it is capable , and , in all probability , is enabled to provide itself with food . Hence it will be understood why it was stated , in a former portion of these observations ...
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Page 211 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Page 763 - A SERIES OF METRIC TABLES. In which the British standard Measures and Weights are compared with those of the Metric System at present in Use on the Continent. By CH DOWLING, CE 8vo, strongly bound 1O/6 "Mr. Dowling's Tables are well put together as a ready reckoner for the conversion of one system into the other.
Page 689 - This seems to have been the origin of some of the round grains met with in meteorites ; for they occasionally still contain a considerable amount of glass, and the crystals which have been formed in it are arranged in groups, radiating from one or more points on the external surface, in such a manner as to indicate that they were developed after the fragments had acquired their present spheroidal shape (Aussun, &c.).
Page 483 - Physician to King's College Hospital, and Professor of Physiology and General and Morbid Anatomy in King's College, London ; Honorary Fellow of King's College.
Page 735 - ... and dimensions from the earliest times to which we can trace back their existence? Yet although their foundations are tens of thousands of years old, they were laid at an era when the Mediterranean was already inhabited by the same species of marine shells as those with which it is now peopled ; so that these volcanos must be regarded as things of yesterday in the geological calendar.
Page 83 - ... a little particle of apparently homogeneous jelly changing itself into a greater variety of forms than the fabled Proteus, laying hold of its food without members, swallowing it without a mouth, digesting it without a stomach, appropriating its nutritious material without absorbent vessels or a circulating system, moving from place to place without muscles, feeling (if it has any power to do so) without nerves, multiplying itself without eggs ; and not only this, but in many instances forming...