The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Volumen7A. and C. Black, 1858 |
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Página 194 - London; have, at their own great cost and charges, undertaken an expedition for Hudson's Bay, in the north-west part of America, for the discovery of a new passage into the South Sea, and for the finding Some trade for furs, minerals and other considerable commodities...
Página 96 - I will say no more but, so let great authors have their due, as time which is the author of authors be not deprived of his due, which is further and further to discover truth.
Página vii - Qnatrefages (A. De).— Rambles of a Naturalist on the Coasts of France, Spain, and Sicily. By A. DE QUATREFAGES. Memb. Inst. Translated by EC OTTE'.
Página 207 - ... the sea-coast to graze upon the sprouting carices and withered grass or hay of the preceding year, which, at that period, is still standing, and retains part of its sap, in all the moist places covering the bottoms of the narrow valleys on the coasts and islands of the Arctic sea. Having dropped their young, they commence their return to the south in September, and reach the vicinity of the woods in October, at which time the males are in good condition, and there is a layer of fat deposited...
Página 142 - Rennie stated that his attention was called to the subject by observing the evolution of heat by the sea in a storm,, by the heat from water running in sluices. He, therefore, prepared an apparatus similar to a patent churn, somewhat similar to that adopted by Mr.
Página 147 - Inferring from these appearances that this plant contains two distinct kinds of pith tissue, differing in duration and probably in function, I obtained, for comparison, specimens of living plants of this and allied families. In some of these, and especially in a species labelled "Ficus Imperialis," from Jamaica, I found the same structure ; and in the young branches, before the central part of the pith was broken up, it was evident that the tissue was of two distinct kinds — one forming the outer...
Página 173 - Stream, the sounding from Lat. 31° 32', Long. 79° 35', depth 150 fathoms, is mentioned as " a mixture in about equal proportions of Globigerina and black sand, probably greensand, as it makes a green mark when crushed on paper.
Página 212 - ... appropriate article for winter clothing in the high latitudes. The skins of the young deer make the best dresses, and they should be killed for that purpose in the months of August or September, as after the latter date the hair becomes too long and brittle. The prime parts of eight or ten skins...
Página 334 - ... caught up, so as to form apparently empty cavities ; or, if they are deposited from solution in water, small quantities of water are enclosed, so as to form fluid-cavities. In a similar manner, if crystals are formed from a state of igneous fusion, crystallizing out from a...
Página 150 - Are we to infer from these facts that the wood of the trees of the genus Dadoxylon was necessarily of a lax and perishable texture. Its structure, and the occurrence of the heart wood of huge trunks of similar character in a perfectly mineralized condition, would lead to a different conclusion ; and I suspect that we should rather regard the mode of occurrence of sternbergia as a caution against the too general inference from the state of preservation of trees of the coal formation, that their tissues...