The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, 2. köide,5. number;5. köideCanadian Institute., 1860 |
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... least advisable , to obtain a knowledge of these latter ( so as to be able to recognize them when met with ) , before proceeding to the discussion of the rocks into which they enter . With these minerals , also , it is convenient to ...
... least advisable , to obtain a knowledge of these latter ( so as to be able to recognize them when met with ) , before proceeding to the discussion of the rocks into which they enter . With these minerals , also , it is convenient to ...
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... least 500 grains ; and these scales will not carry more than 200 , or 250 grains at the most . They are not very sensitive , indeed , when This is the maximum specific gravity of calcareous spar . loaded with more than 50 or 60 grains ...
... least 500 grains ; and these scales will not carry more than 200 , or 250 grains at the most . They are not very sensitive , indeed , when This is the maximum specific gravity of calcareous spar . loaded with more than 50 or 60 grains ...
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... least in experiments of this kind ) for more than 3 quarter of a minute at a time . A thin splinter will exhibit signs of fusion in ten or twelve seconds , or not at all . The use of the instrument , therefore , is easily acquired , and ...
... least in experiments of this kind ) for more than 3 quarter of a minute at a time . A thin splinter will exhibit signs of fusion in ten or twelve seconds , or not at all . The use of the instrument , therefore , is easily acquired , and ...
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... on the edges , at least , in ordinary cases . ( h ) The test - fragment may remain unchanged . Example , Quartz , and various other infusible minerals . The Water - test . - Many solid minerals contain 18 A POPULAR EXPOSITION OF THE.
... on the edges , at least , in ordinary cases . ( h ) The test - fragment may remain unchanged . Example , Quartz , and various other infusible minerals . The Water - test . - Many solid minerals contain 18 A POPULAR EXPOSITION OF THE.
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... least some typical species as seem to be established by sufficient authority . For prac- tical usefulness we should have preferred some attempt , even if con- fessedly only provisional , to harmonise what we seem to have learned from ...
... least some typical species as seem to be established by sufficient authority . For prac- tical usefulness we should have preferred some attempt , even if con- fessedly only provisional , to harmonise what we seem to have learned from ...
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Page 127 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 119 - Refrain from: these men* and let them alone : for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought : But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it...
Page 61 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 122 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page 66 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 13 - The specific gravity of a body is its weight compared with the weight of an equal bulk of pure water. In...
Page 192 - A sight most horrible and disgusting broke upon us as we ascended a sand dune overhanging the little dell in which the pound was built. Within a circular fence 120 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed in every conceivable position over two hundred dead buffalo. From old bulls to calves of three months old, animals of every age were huddled together in all the forced attitudes of violent death.
Page 119 - ... been led to the conclusion that those powers of nature which give rise to races and permanent varieties in animals and plants, are the same as those which in much longer periods produce species, and in a still longer series of ages give rise to differences of generic rank. He appears to me to have succeeded by his investigations and reasonings in throwing a flood of light on many classes of phenomena connected with the affinities, geographical distribution, and geological succession of organic...
Page 370 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 193 - ... climb to the top of the fence, and, with the hunters who have followed closely in the rear of the buffalo, spear or shoot with bows and arrows or fire-arms at the bewildered animals, rapidly becoming frantic with rage and terror, within the narrow limits of the pound.