The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volum 13The Society, 1857 Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30) |
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Side 179 - The latter are composed of fragments of the secondary limestones and schists, and vary from the size of a pea to that of a walnut.
Side 88 - Flints are also found on the surface of the hill of Skelmuir, adjoining Bogingarry ; and to the south-west on the hill of Dudwick in the parish of Ellon. This seems to be their southernmost limit. In these localities the flints are angular. According to Mr. Christie* chalk-flints are found in the drift on the high grounds between Turriff and Delgaty Castle (Aberdeenshire), and among the shingle at Boyndie Bay, west of Banff.
Side xliii - Treatises, independent of their grand design— the illustration of the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation — should secure them a wide circulation.
Side cxlviii - To promote researches concerning the mineral structure of the earth, and to enable the Council of the Geological Society to reward those individuals of any country by whom such researches may hereafter be made,' — ( such individual not being a Member of the Council.
Side 88 - ... whole mass had much the appearance of having been drifted ; although, from the nature of the matrix, and the state of preservation in which the shells are found, it does not appear as if it could have been transported far. The sandstone is tough and soft when newly dug, but hardens on exposure to the air, and becomes light-coloured in drying. When wet it presents a mottled appearance, the colouring being greenish ; when dry, this almost disappears.
Side 336 - Mastodon, one or both of which are retained in the male, and acquire a sufficiently conspicuous size, though small in proportion to the upper tusks ; while both are early shed in the female. The second character is equally decisive; it is the displacement of the first and second molars in the vertical direction, by a tooth of simpler form than the second, a true dent de remplacement, developed above the deciduous teeth in the upper, and below them in the under jaw.
Side 385 - Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory at Toronto, in Canada, under the Superintendence of Colonel Edward Sabine.
Side xxviii - But we are not called upon to deny the possible existence of previous worlds, from the wreck of which our globe was organized, and the ruins of which are now furnishing matter for our curiosity. The belief of their existence is indeed consistent with rational probability, and somewhat confirmed by the discoveries of astronomy as to the plurality of worlds.
Side 303 - On the Structure and Classification of the Transition Rocks of Shropshire, Herefordshire, and part of Wales...
Side lxv - Gottingen," and gave clinical lectures twice a week upon the more remarkable or instructive cases that presented themselves. Subsequently he was elected Physician to the Westminster Hospital, and there for many years gave courses of lectures to the students on the Practice of Medicine, on the Materia Medica, and on Chemistry. He married, in September 1800, Miss Dodwell, the daughter of Mr. Edward Dodwell of West Moulsey, Surrey. In the same year he was elected a member of the Royal Society. He had...