Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, Volume 12Society, 1894 |
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Página 229 - ... and grievously scarred, and it is noteworthy that the females appeared to be as freely scarred as the males. During January their condition improved, and by February they were heavily blubbered and free of scars. The males were apparently as numerous as the females, but I made no definite statistics. Loving the sun, they lie on the pack all day digesting their meal of the previous night, which had consisted of fish or small crustaceans, or both ; the penguin is also occasionally the victim of...
Página 356 - I have only a few words to say with regard to the various remarks made by speakers. With regard to Sir Thomas Holdich's remarks, I entirely agree that the work of a trained staff of surveyors is the best thing you can have. But how many years will it be before the Himalayas can be surveyed in that way ? In the mean time, need we be content with the...
Página 85 - ... from known specimens they only differ from the last-mentioned spines in the circumstance that the supporting plate is destitute of the extended oblique pedicle observed both in the type specimens from the Corniferous Limestone of Ohio, and in the shield assigned to the same genus from Spitzbergen. It thus remains to discover more associated examples of the plates and spines from Ohio, to determine whether they actually pertain to Ostracoderms, as suspected, or whether they represent part of the...
Página 85 - Palaeontology, vol. ii. like a short break or separation between the anterior and posterior portions of the dorsal (or between the two dorsals if there were two, which is scarcely probable), but this break may be owing to an accidental and abnormal fracture of the fin-rays at this point, for in other specimens the two portions appear to be continuous." This break is, however, represented in all his figures, including the restored sketch given in his second paper in the Transactions of the Royal Society...
Página 230 - I saw on one piece of ice at a time vru? forty-seven. On one occasion we found some seals on a tilted berg, and so high was the ledge above the level of the water that our men clambered up with difficulty and secured their prey. This illustrates their great power of jumping out of the water. I have seen them rising eight or ten feet above the sea, and cover distances of fully twenty feet in length.
Página 232 - December, when we first made ice, we passed among thousands of finner whales. Many came quite close to the ship, and, as far as the eye could reach in all directions, one could see their curved backs, and see and hear their resounding
Página 85 - Fishes," he placed the genus among the Crossopterygii iii a distinct family of " Phaneropleurini " which he thus defined : — " Dorsal fin single, very long, not subdivided, supported by many interspinous bones, scales thin cycloidal, teeth conical ; ventral fins very long, acutely lobate.
Página 229 - It is extremely to be regretted that it was during this time that an indiscriminate slaughter took place, as almost every female, towards the end of January and in February, is with young. In no individual did I find more than one embryo. All the seals were obtained from the pack ice, in bluest and clearest water, the Sea Leopard being on the outermost streams, and was most frequently found singly, but sometimes in pairs or threes on one piece of ice. Of Weddell's False Sea Leopards, we on board...
Página 215 - We saw these black-throated penguins as far south as we went, that is about 64£°, and I have no doubt they extended much farther. Within 30 miles of the land they were fairly numerous, but at a greater distance from shore, even in the midst of abundant ice of the same character, they became scarce, and only very few were seen 90 miles from land. Pour penguin rookeries were seen about the south of Joinville Island. One of these — a very large one — belonging to this species was • visited....
Página 84 - The remains of terrestrial vegetation in this deposit are greatly scantier than those of its marine Flora ; but they must be regarded as possessing a peculiar interest, as the oldest of their class, in at least the British islands, whose true place in the scale can be satisfactorily established. In the flagstones of Orkney there occurs, though very rarely, a minute vegetable organism, which I have elsewhere described as having much the appearance of one of our smaller ferns, such as the Maidenhair,...