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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... whole area ( as represented in the map ) , though often at very great depths . The following diagram ( Fig . 3 ) will give an idea of the manner in which the Carboniferous beds rise from beneath the newer formations at the eastern and ...
... whole area ( as represented in the map ) , though often at very great depths . The following diagram ( Fig . 3 ) will give an idea of the manner in which the Carboniferous beds rise from beneath the newer formations at the eastern and ...
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... whole amount originally contained in the basin , a very large portion of which is at a depth below 4,000 and 5,000 feet . The produce of the 313 collieries in 1861 was 6,690,771 tons , which is considerably lower than in previous years ...
... whole amount originally contained in the basin , a very large portion of which is at a depth below 4,000 and 5,000 feet . The produce of the 313 collieries in 1861 was 6,690,771 tons , which is considerably lower than in previous years ...
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... whole of our coal - producing districts will reach a stage of activity beyond which they cannot advance , but around which they may oscillate . Entertaining these views , I am inclined to place the pos- sible maximum of production at ...
... whole of our coal - producing districts will reach a stage of activity beyond which they cannot advance , but around which they may oscillate . Entertaining these views , I am inclined to place the pos- sible maximum of production at ...
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... whole of the facts bearing on the muddy deposits , with whose presence , over a considerable area of the sea - bed , the sounding - machine has made us acquainted . But there is one point to which we must invite atten- tion , inasmuch ...
... whole of the facts bearing on the muddy deposits , with whose presence , over a considerable area of the sea - bed , the sounding - machine has made us acquainted . But there is one point to which we must invite atten- tion , inasmuch ...
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... whole of the electricity to leak through . A small fault , which would not be of serious consequence in a short line , cannot be tolerated when the cable is of considerable length , as the powerful currents necessary to force a signal ...
... whole of the electricity to leak through . A small fault , which would not be of serious consequence in a short line , cannot be tolerated when the cable is of considerable length , as the powerful currents necessary to force a signal ...
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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 81 - ... 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...