Scottish Naturalist and Journal of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, Volum 10

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Francis Buchanan White White
Cowan & Company, 1890

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Side 140 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Side 121 - On all her branches; piety has found Friends in the friends of science, and true prayer Has flowed from lips wet with Castalian dews.
Side 213 - 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.
Side 2 - Surely there is a vein for the silver, And a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.
Side 227 - For the purpose of inquiring into the rate of erosion of the sea-coasts of England and Wales, and the influence of the artificial abstraction of shingle or other material in that action.
Side 306 - THE FIELD CLUB A MAGAZINE OF GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY FOR SCIENTIFIC AND UNSCIENTIFIC READERS. EDITED BY REV. THEODORE WOOD.
Side 162 - No one could be better fitted than Dr. Coppinger to put into a readable shape the result of his investigations as a naturalist, and his impressions of strange scenery and savage men. . . . Every page attests his method and his practical familiarity, etc.
Side 230 - To consider the best methods for the registration of all Type Specimens of Fossils in the British Isles, and to report on the same.
Side 228 - By whom — Private individuals. Local authorities. Public companies. d. Whether half-tide reefs had, before such removal, acted as natural breakwaters. 14. Is the coast being worn back by the sea? If so, state— a. At what, special points or districts.
Side 351 - We have ten tiny field creatures constituting an army in themselves, which if not kept under would quickly devastate our fields. These ten species consist of four mice, three voles, and three shrews. Individually, so tiny are these that any one species could comfortably curl itself up in the divided shell of the horse-chestnut.

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