 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1894 - 516 páginas
...of geologic time.3 Dr. Croll agrees with Sir W. Thompson that Professor Tait probably overestimated the time when he affirms that 10,000,000 years is about the utmost that cnn be allowed, from the physical point of view, for all the changes that have taken place in the earth's... | |
 | abbé Marie Gabriel - 1857 - 482 páginas
...to geologists for their speculations as to the history even of the lowest orders of fossils " and " for all the changes that have taken place on the earth's...lowest known form was capable of existing there." Of course, it remains to be seen how far future researches may induce others to modify the above statements.... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 56 páginas
...to geologists for their speculations as to the history even of the lowest orders of fossils " and " for all the changes that have taken place on the earth's...lowest known form was capable of existing there." Of course, it remains to be seen how far future researches may induce others to modify the above statements.... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 420 páginas
...other two, and is — for all tend to something about the same — to the- effect that ten millions of years is about the utmost that can be allowed, from...the lowest known form was capable of existing there. I leave this part of the subject for a time. This has been a developed application of the theory of... | |
 | 1877 - 786 páginas
...demonstrated by a threefold argument that about ten millions of years is the limit that can be allowed from a physical point of view for all the changes that have...life of the lowest known form was capable of existing thereon. His argument is based on the internal heat of the earth as showing the time of consolidation,... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1880 - 462 páginas
...to geologists for their speculations as to the history even of the lowest orders of fossils " and " for all the changes that have taken place on the earth's...surface since vegetable life of the lowest known form wns capable of existing there." Of course, it remains to be seen how far future researches may induce... | |
 | Charles Force Deems - 1885 - 114 páginas
...other two, and is — for all tend to something about the same — to the effect that ten millions of years is about the utmost that can be allowed, from...earth's surface since vegetable life of the lowest form was capable of existing here. . . . I dare say many of you are acquainted with the speculations... | |
 | 1885 - 998 páginas
...other two, and is — for all tend to something about the same — to the effect that ten millions of years is about the utmost that can be allowed, from...earth's surface since vegetable life of the lowest form was capable of existing here. ... I dare say many of you are acquainted with the speculations... | |
 | Joseph Samuel Exell - 1885 - 606 páginas
...the other two, and is—for all tend to something about the same—to the effect that ten millions of years is about the utmost that can be allowed, from...earth's surface since vegetable life of the lowest form was capable of existing here. ... I daresay many of you are acquainted with the speculations of... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1885 - 342 páginas
...can give to geologists for their speculations as to the history of the lowest orders of fossils, and for all the changes that have taken place on the earth's...lowest known form was capable of existing there." 12. Professor LIONEL BEALE, in his Life Theories and Religious Thought, combats the opinion entertained... | |
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Tait probably overestimated the time when he aftinns that 10,000,000 years is about the utmost that can be allowed, from the physical point of view, for all the changes that have taken place in the earth's surface since vegetable life of the lowest known... 
