The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 41A. and C. Black, 1846 - Science |
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Page ii - An address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 19th of February, 1841 ; and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year.
Page 230 - A work of immense labour and research Nothing has ever appeared in lithography in this country at all comparable to these plates : and as regards the representations of minute osseous texture, by Mr. Ford, they are perhaps the most perfect that have yet been produced in any country. . . . The work has commenced with the Elephant group, in which the authors say ' is most signally displayed the numerical richness of forms which characterises the Fossil Fauna of India ;' and the first chapter relates...
Page 285 - THE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE, and the TRANSACTIONS of the HIGHLAND and AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY of SCOTLAND. Published Quarterly.
Page 285 - Scotland, manufacturer, for his invention of an improved method or manufacture which facilitates the production of regular figures or patterns, on different fabrics particularly velvet, velvet pile and Brussels Wilton, and Turkey carpets.
Page 2 - I have felt at seeing a multitude of ridiculous predictions appear under my name, not constrain me, by the force of reaction, to give an exaggerated degree of importance to the disturbing causes I have enumerated ! At present, I believe that I am in a condition to deduce from my investigations the important result which I now announce ; Whatever may be the progress of the sciences, NEVER will observers who are trustworthy, and careful of their reputation, venture to foretel the state of the weather...
Page 48 - ... numbers, others becoming extinct, others continuing to exist throughout the whole range, and a few appearing in the lower portion of these beds, which, from a marked general change of forms, are classified as the Upper Silurian rocks. This view you will see developed in the address delivered by Sir R. Murchison from this chair four years ago,* where he states, that the conventional line that had been drawn between the Lower Silurian and the Cambrian rocks beneath them had no longer any reference...
Page 141 - Lancaster, mechanic, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing, slubbing, and roving, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances.
Page 128 - In high latitudes the atmospheric currents, when undisturbed, are westerly, particularly in the winter season. If storms and gales revolve by a fixed law, and we are able, by studying these disturbing causes of the usual atmospheric currents, to distinguish revolving gales, it is likely that voyages may be shortened. The indications of a revolving gale are, a descending barometer, with a regularly veering wind.
Page 203 - Everything in this southern continent has been effected on a grand scale : the land, from the Rio Plata to Tierra del Fuego, a distance of 1200 miles, has been raised in mass (and in Patagonia to a height of between 300 and 400 feet), within the period of the now existing sea-shells. The old and weathered shells left on the surface of the upraised plain still partially retain their colours.
Page 203 - I have convincing proofs that this part of the continent of South America has been elevated near the coast at least from 400 to 500, and in some parts from 1000 to 1300 feet, since the epoch of existing shells; and further inland the rise possibly may have been greater.