The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Том 2,Випуск 5;Том 5Canadian Institute., 1860 |
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... nearly bars the valleys across which the path leads . It is partly covered by striations , well marked on the slope that looks up the valley , telling the observer not only of the previous extension of the glacier thus far , but also ...
... nearly bars the valleys across which the path leads . It is partly covered by striations , well marked on the slope that looks up the valley , telling the observer not only of the previous extension of the glacier thus far , but also ...
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... nearly every country , be dug up from the rocks of the earth . No objection need , however , be taken to our reading in it the doctrine of embryonic development according to a systematic type . * In that spiritual department which is ...
... nearly every country , be dug up from the rocks of the earth . No objection need , however , be taken to our reading in it the doctrine of embryonic development according to a systematic type . * In that spiritual department which is ...
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... nearly eighty papers were read ; and the total number of communications and Reports brought forward at the Meeting , is not far short of four hundred . Some of these papers are of the highest value : but a considerable number are of ...
... nearly eighty papers were read ; and the total number of communications and Reports brought forward at the Meeting , is not far short of four hundred . Some of these papers are of the highest value : but a considerable number are of ...
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... nearly seven inches across are less than four inches in length . These characterize the species called Cetiosaurus brevis . Caudal vertebræ , measuring seven inches deep and five and a half inches in length , from the Lower Oolite at ...
... nearly seven inches across are less than four inches in length . These characterize the species called Cetiosaurus brevis . Caudal vertebræ , measuring seven inches deep and five and a half inches in length , from the Lower Oolite at ...
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... nearly the same geological period , in rivers flowing over what now forms the south coast of Eng land . Many species of procœlian Crocodilia have been founded on fossils from miocene and pliocene tertiaries . One of these , of the ...
... nearly the same geological period , in rivers flowing over what now forms the south coast of Eng land . Many species of procœlian Crocodilia have been founded on fossils from miocene and pliocene tertiaries . One of these , of the ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 61 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Сторінка 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?
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 13 - The specific gravity of a body is its weight compared with the weight of an equal bulk of pure water. In...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.