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Papers from the Department of Geology, Nummer 11 McGill University Department of Geology Volledige weergave - 1901 |
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Abstract Acadian Acadian geology Advancement of Science Amer America animals appendix April Assoc Bible lands Brit Brunswick Bull Canadian Pacific railway Coal Formation Coal Measures collected Cretaceous Decade Dendrerpeton Edinburgh edition Eozoon canadense Erian Devonian floras of Canada Formation of Nova fossil plants fossil sponges G. M. Dawson Geol geological relations Geological Survey Haven Hist Ibid Issued as separate Jour July June Leda clay Little Métis London Lyell March McGill University Métis Montreal Natural History Society Note on fossil Notes on specimens Nova Scotia November Ottawa Paleozoic Peter Redpath Museum Phil Pictou Pleistocene Prince Edward Island Princeton Review Proc Quart Quebec group Read Remarks Report of Progress Reprinted as separate Rhizocarps science in Bible second series separate pamphlet Sigillaria Silurian Society of Montreal South Joggins species Survey of Canada third series Trans treal Victoria Institute whole volume issued WILLIAM DAWSON York
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Pagina 560 - The testimony of the rocks, by Hugh Miller: Ibid, (review), May, 1857, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 81-92, Montreal. Recent geological discoveries: Ibid., vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 188-195. (Review of suppl. to 5th ed., Lyell's Manual of Geology, London, 1857.) July, 1857, Montreal. On the newer Pliocene and post- Pliocene deposits of the vicinity of Montreal, with notices of fossils recently discovered in them: Ibid., December, 1857, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 401-426, Montreal. (Issued as separate, 28 pp., 1858, Montreal.)...
Pagina 557 - ... school and strongly opposed to all theories of the evolution of man from brute ancestors, nor would he allow anything more than a very moderate antiquity for the species. The study of geology, too, he would have emancipated from " that materialistic infidelity which by robbing nature of the spiritual element and of its presiding divinity makes science dry, barren, and repulsive and diminishes its educational value." These works on the relation of science and religion, while they undoubtedly met...
Pagina 568 - Amer. Jour. Sci., third series, vol. 7, 1874, pp. 47-51, New Haven. On the Upper Coal Formation of eastern Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in its relation to the Permian: Quart.
Pagina 554 - ... some unfinished papers. Several of these were published in 1894 and 1895 ; but the years of quiet labor in his favorite pursuits to which he looked forward at this time were cut short by a series of sharp attacks, culminating in partial paralysis, which forbade further effort. He passed away on the 19th of November peacefully and without pain.
Pagina 577 - Supplements are those to second edition, 1878. and fourth edition, 1891. On new specimens of Dendrerpeton acadianum, with remarks on other Carboniferous amphibians: Geol. Mag , Decade 3, vol. 8, no. 324, pp. 145-156, London.
Pagina 562 - Montreal. 1862. Notice of the discovery of additional remains of land animals in the Coal Measures of the South Joggins, Nova Scotia: Quart.
Pagina 578 - THE CANADIAN ICE- AGE; being Notes on the Pleistocene Geology of Canada, with especial reference to the Life of the Period and its Climatal Conditions, and Lists of the Specimens in the Museum.
Pagina 560 - Montreal. Coal in Canada. The Bowmanville discovery. Ibid., June, 1858, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 212-223, Montreal. A week in Gaspe: Ibid., 1858, vol. 3, pp. 321-331, Montreal. . 1859. On fossil plants from the Devonian rocks of Canada: Quart.
Pagina 556 - Age," which was issued in 1893 as one of the publications of the Peter Redpath Museum of McGill University. This is one of the most important contributions to the paleontology of the Pleistocene which has hitherto appeared. As Sir William was always much more interested in the history of life than in any of the inorganic aspects of the science of geology, he considered one of his most important contributions to scientific knowledge to be the discovery of Eozoon canndense.
Pagina 551 - Pictou, and on the termination of his engagement began business on his own account, becoming in the course of time one of the chief ship-builders in that part of Nova Scotia. James Dawson had but two children, of whom Sir William was the elder. The younger died at an early age, leaving Sir William thus the sole survivor of the family. • • ' While still at school in Pictou, at the age of twelve he developed a love for natural science, inherited from his father, and made large collections of fossil...