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... progress , has usually some dis- covery to announce , some paper to read , or some address to deliver . Of such miscellaneous matter- selected chiefly with a view to instruction in the Principles of Geology - the present volume is in a ...
... progress , has usually some dis- covery to announce , some paper to read , or some address to deliver . Of such miscellaneous matter- selected chiefly with a view to instruction in the Principles of Geology - the present volume is in a ...
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... progress . Recent . Pleistocene . Pliocene . Miocene . Eocene . CRETACEOUS . { Chalk . Greensand . Wealden . OOLITIC . Periods . CAINOZOIC . NEOZOIC CYCLE . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . OLD RED SAND- STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN ...
... progress . Recent . Pleistocene . Pliocene . Miocene . Eocene . CRETACEOUS . { Chalk . Greensand . Wealden . OOLITIC . Periods . CAINOZOIC . NEOZOIC CYCLE . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . OLD RED SAND- STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN ...
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... progress , that the modern geologist directs his attention . All that relates to the primordial condition of the earth , and to its origin and evolution as a member of the solar system , belongs to cosmogony and astronomy , and not to ...
... progress , that the modern geologist directs his attention . All that relates to the primordial condition of the earth , and to its origin and evolution as a member of the solar system , belongs to cosmogony and astronomy , and not to ...
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... progress in the main from lower to higher forms - and that all the changes , whether of a physical or of a vital nature , have ever been in accordance with certain modes and processes , or , in other words , under the unerring direction ...
... progress in the main from lower to higher forms - and that all the changes , whether of a physical or of a vital nature , have ever been in accordance with certain modes and processes , or , in other words , under the unerring direction ...
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... progress , it will be readily granted that the economic bearings of geology are fully commensurate with those that are scientific or intel- lectual . Such is a brief indication of the aim , scope , and bearing of geological inquiry ...
... progress , it will be readily granted that the economic bearings of geology are fully commensurate with those that are scientific or intel- lectual . Such is a brief indication of the aim , scope , and bearing of geological inquiry ...
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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.
Página 305 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, 18s.