The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Bind 33The Society, 1877 Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30) |
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Ammonites appear articular bands base beds Belemnites bones Brachiopoda breccia Calcareous Carboniferous Cave centrum Chalk character Chemnitzia Chillesford Cidaris florigemma cirques clay coal Coal-field Coal-measures Coniston Coniston Limestone Contorted Drift Coral Rag Coralline oolite Crag Cretaceous D'Orb denudation deposits described district evidence fauna feet fjords formation fossiliferous fossils fragments Gault genera genus Geol glaciers Graptolitic Greensand Hill Hyæna inches Journ Kimmeridge Clay Lower Calcareous Grit margin marls mass metres Middle Glacial miles Millstone Grit Mosasaurus Mudstones Museum nearly numerous occur oolite Palæoniscus Pecten Permian plate portion posterior present probably Prof quarry Quart remarkable represented resemblance ribs ridge Robin-Hood rocks sand sandstones seen shales shells Shineton Shales side Silurian species specimens stone strata surface teeth Tertiary thickness thin tubercles Upper Calcareous Grit Upper Glacial valley vertebræ volcanic Whin Sill Yorkshire
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Side 92 - Count Gaston de Saporta, FCGS, expressing the hope that Fellows of the Society would attend the meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held in August in Havre. The following communications were read : — 1. " Remarks on the Coal-bearing Deposits near Erekli, the ancient Hc'niclea, Pontns-Bithynia.
Side 653 - FREDERICK M°CoY, FGS One vol., Royal 410. Plates, /i. is. A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF CAMBRIAN AND SILURIAN FOSSILS contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, by JW SALTER, FGS With a Portrait of PROFESSOR SEDGWICK.
Side 704 - ... little used for cutting, as weapons for seizing their prey they were very formidable. And here we have to consider a peculiarity of these creatures, in which they are unique among animals. Swallowing their prey entire like snakes, they were without that wonderful expansibility of throat due in the latter to an arrangement of levers supporting the lower jaw. Instead of this each half of that jaw was articulated or jointed at a point nearly midway between the ear and the chin.
Side 165 - Mines and Mineral Statistics of New South Wales, and Notes on the Geological Collection of 21 the Department of Mines, compiled by direction of the Hon.
Side 36 - Corals, and noticed the unconforniability of the Carboniferous to the underlying group ; and even in those early days of his work he grasped the important idea that the geology of the typical area of Europe was not exactly comparable with that of Australia. From his knowledge of the country and of the physical development of the Australian Cordillera, Mr. Clarke was able to enlarge upon the relations of the sedimentary and intrusive rocks, and this led to his discovery of the auriferous quartzitOB...
Side 173 - On the natural history of the Rocky Mountain locust, and on the habits of the young or unfledged insects as they occur in the more fertile country in which they will hatch the present year. No. 2.
Side 593 - Shoshones. though mostly provided with tools of iron and steel of approved patterns, are still to be seen employing, as a scraper in the dressing of skins, a mere
Side 24 - I give to the Geological Society of London the Die executed by Mr. Leonard Wyon of a Medal to be cast in Bronze and to be given annually and called the Lyell Medal, and to be regarded as a mark of honorary distinction and as an expression on the part of the Governing Body of the Society that the Medallist (who may be of any Country or either sex) has deserved well of the Science.
Side 664 - The caudal axis extends three-fourths down the smooth tail, very indistinctly marked above, but in some specimens crossed by several faint rings, and is always prominent at the tip.
Side 507 - Agass., from the European chalk, is related to the two genera first named above; but as left by its author in the "Poissons fossiles," includes apparently two generic forms. The first figured and described has the mandibular teeth of equal length. In the second they are unequal, as in Portlmus, to which genus this specimen ought, perhaps, to be referred.