Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, 40. köideVictoria Institute., 1908 Each volume includes list of members, and "objects of the institute" (except v. 31, which has no list of members). Beginning with v. 12, a list of the papers contained in preceding volumes is issued regularly with each volume. |
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... river Moisie , told me that his Indians were accustomed " to fix the sun " by setting two stakes , one upright , and the other to fit its shadow . In this way the members of the party following after could judge of the height and ...
... river Moisie , told me that his Indians were accustomed " to fix the sun " by setting two stakes , one upright , and the other to fit its shadow . In this way the members of the party following after could judge of the height and ...
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... rivers , cutting out their valleys , when they had a vastly greater volume of water , during the early part of the Quaternary Period . This view is , however , quite untenable , for the rolled Ardennaise pebbles are found not only in ...
... rivers , cutting out their valleys , when they had a vastly greater volume of water , during the early part of the Quaternary Period . This view is , however , quite untenable , for the rolled Ardennaise pebbles are found not only in ...
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... rivers . The yellow clay with blocks , is spread all over Belgium , on the hills and in the valleys , and owes its origin to some great and general cause , acting all over the country . Ice is excluded from the reasons just stated ...
... rivers . The yellow clay with blocks , is spread all over Belgium , on the hills and in the valleys , and owes its origin to some great and general cause , acting all over the country . Ice is excluded from the reasons just stated ...
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... rivers were of immense size , rolling along an enormous volume of water , and constantly swollen by tumultuous floods . A luxuriant vegetation clothed the hill - sides and covered the lowlands , mantling the slopes with great forests ...
... rivers were of immense size , rolling along an enormous volume of water , and constantly swollen by tumultuous floods . A luxuriant vegetation clothed the hill - sides and covered the lowlands , mantling the slopes with great forests ...
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... river , and are full of caverns . Of those of the Mammoth Age the Trou de la Naulette is the most important . Dupont found that it contained six beds of stalagmite , beneath which , in sand and clay , lay the remains of hyænas , and of ...
... river , and are full of caverns . Of those of the Mammoth Age the Trou de la Naulette is the most important . Dupont found that it contained six beds of stalagmite , beneath which , in sand and clay , lay the remains of hyænas , and of ...
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