Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... student who is deep - read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of nature . " - Professor Huxley's Lecture On a Bit of Chalk , ' British As- sociation , 1868 . CHIPS AND CHAPTERS A BOOK FOR AMATEUR AND YOUNG GEOLOGISTS.
... student who is deep - read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of nature . " - Professor Huxley's Lecture On a Bit of Chalk , ' British As- sociation , 1868 . CHIPS AND CHAPTERS A BOOK FOR AMATEUR AND YOUNG GEOLOGISTS.
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... Professor Ansted , * * " that this view of the government of the uni- verse does not accord with the feelings of those who desire to have their attention directed in a definite manner to the repeated systematic personal intervention of ...
... Professor Ansted , * * " that this view of the government of the uni- verse does not accord with the feelings of those who desire to have their attention directed in a definite manner to the repeated systematic personal intervention of ...
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... Professor Oldham on the Geology of India , and , in particular , on that of the Indian Coal - fields , as given in the Pro- ceedings of the British Association for 1867 . brings us , in the fifth place , to remark 66 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... Professor Oldham on the Geology of India , and , in particular , on that of the Indian Coal - fields , as given in the Pro- ceedings of the British Association for 1867 . brings us , in the fifth place , to remark 66 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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... Professor Huxley , " absolute diver- sity of species is no proof of difference of date , just as absol- ute identity can be no evidence of contemporaneous deposi- tion . " We may , and must , as far as we can , establish a similarity of ...
... Professor Huxley , " absolute diver- sity of species is no proof of difference of date , just as absol- ute identity can be no evidence of contemporaneous deposi- tion . " We may , and must , as far as we can , establish a similarity of ...
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... Professor Ramsay , and find blocks and boulders of all sizes indiscrim- inately huddled together - some rounded , some sharp and angular , and some boulders even grooved and striated like those of the " boulder clay " -the evidence ...
... Professor Ramsay , and find blocks and boulders of all sizes indiscrim- inately huddled together - some rounded , some sharp and angular , and some boulders even grooved and striated like those of the " boulder clay " -the evidence ...
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Página 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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