The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Bind 13The Society, 1857 Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30) |
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Side 304 - An address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 19th of February, 1841 ; and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year.
Side 191 - The first specimen described supplied the characters of the last true molar tooth of the lower jaw. which had not been previously known. This tooth has six lobes, the additional posterior pair being less than the normal ones, and more simple. The inner surface of the inner lobe has an accessory cusp at the back part of its base, but not at the fore part, as in the other lobes. The length of the last lower molar was nine lines, that of the first and second molars being each six lines. A specimen of...
Side 302 - Rccherches sur la Faune des premiers sediments Tertiaires Parisiens : Mammiferes Pachydermes du genre Coryphodon. Recherches sur les Mammiferes Pachydermes du genre Coryphodon. . Recherches sur les Oscillations du sol de la France Septentrionale, pendant la periode jurassique. Holmes, Rev. JI The Inspiration of the Mosaic Account of the Creation, &c. Hull, E. Geology of the country around Cheltenham. From the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Lyell, Sir C. A Second Visit to North America. Third...
Side xliii - The Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as manifested in the Creation.' It is now unnecessary to dwell upon that portion of the work which endeavours to remove the scruples of those persons who desire to explain all natural phenomena in reference to the text of Scripture, as the error of confounding a moral with a physical revelation has already nearly expired, and even the most pious men now study nature only in the records which have been preserved of it either upon or in the earth's crust ; but,...
Side 24 - Pannonian basin (south east from Vienna) in latitude 47°, while at present the northern limit of such corals in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf is at 29°, thus furnishing a new proof of the higher temperature which prevailed in Europe at the Tertiary period.
Side xxv - The President, Col. Portlock, having taken the Chair, proceeded to deliver the Balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund to Mr.
Side 212 - FGS (The publication of this paper is postponed.) [Abstract.] BESIDES a drift of red loam with flints, and the few local outliers of lower tertiary sands and pebble-beds, there are scattered on the summit of the North Downs from Folkestone to Dorking a few masses of sand, gravel, and ironstone, which present a certain regularity of structure and uniformity among themselves, and are clearly different from and of a later age than the outliers of eocene tertiaries on the same hills. Mr. Prestwich had...
Side 161 - Description des Coquilles fossiles de la famille des Rudistes qui se trouvent dans le terrain cre'tace des Corbieres (Aude). 4to. 1841. From H. Sharpe, Esq. Routier de 1'Australie, traduit de 1' Anglais et annote* d'apres les travaux hydrographiques les plus recents, par A.
Side 336 - Prof. Owen, in his remarks upon Mr. Fitch's specimen of the last milk-molar (fig. 100), goes on to say, " In Dr. Kaup's figure the tooth in question...
Side 88 - ... 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.