Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Volumen8The Society, 1882 Includes list of members in each vol. |
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Página 5 - I declare that I had no intention to contradict the text of Scripture ; that I believe most firmly all therein related about the creation, both as to order of time and matter of fact ; I abandon everything in my book respecting the formation of the earth, and, generally, all which may be contrary to the narration of Moses...
Página 145 - President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the last General Meeting were read and confirmed. The following Annual Report of the Council was then read : — ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.
Página 297 - Where many a time he triumphed is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye...
Página 91 - Under such conditions science and mechanics will, I have no doubt, render the conditions of human labour at these depths quite possible ; and although it would appear that our new coal fields lie at great depths below the surface of the ground...
Página 39 - Notes on the Occurrence of Fossil Fish Remains in the Carboniferous Limestone Series of Yorkshire.
Página 10 - ... with physical geography, the occupations of different people, and the distribution of different races. In this happy dream of the future expansion of geology, his actual professional work was often forgotten, until at length he had thrown into the Gulf of the Strata all his little patrimony and all his little gains ; and he gave up his London residence and wandered, at his own sweet will, among those rocks which had been so fatal to his prosperity, though so favourable to his renown.
Página 282 - Esq., in the Chair. The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. The following Gentlemen were elected Members of the Society : — Joseph Stubbs, Mayor of Warrington.
Página 10 - His home was full of maps, sections, models, and collections of fossils ; and his hourly talk was of the laws of stratification, the succession of organic life, the practical value of geology, its importance in agriculture, engineering, and commerce, its connection with physical geography, the occupations of different people and the distribution of different races. In this happy dream of the future expansion of geology his actual professional work was...
Página 256 - I wish I could, for a minute or two, transport you to this place. Not so much that you might look at my rugged old face, as that you might gladden your eyes by gazing over the sweet scenery of this rich pastoral valley. The home scenery is delicious ; and glowing at this moment (6.30 am) with the richest light of heaven ; and from the door of this old home of my childhood I can look down the valley, and see, blue in the distance, the crests of the Lake Mountains which rear their heads near the top...
Página 375 - It consists of a central pith, surrounded by a number of slightly wedge-shaped masses of tissue, which are either of a fibrovascular or of a wholly vascular character. Outside these masses of tissue or bundles, as we may term them, is a cambinm ring, followed by a comparatively thick cortex. This is composed, in a great measure, of radiating plates composed of cells, with large intervening air cavities, similar to those met with in recent aquatic plants.