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... SCOTLAND * HE range of hills , which in Scotland extends from the German Ocean to the Irish Sea , having a N.E. and S.W. direction , has been aptly designated the Southern Uplands . This range is nearly parallel in its course to that of ...
... SCOTLAND * HE range of hills , which in Scotland extends from the German Ocean to the Irish Sea , having a N.E. and S.W. direction , has been aptly designated the Southern Uplands . This range is nearly parallel in its course to that of ...
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... Scotland . Fossils appear to be absent from this group , no trace of them having been met with in the three parallel bands which traverse Wigtonshire . In the Dumfriesshire portion of the Upper Llandeilo area of the South of Scotland ...
... Scotland . Fossils appear to be absent from this group , no trace of them having been met with in the three parallel bands which traverse Wigtonshire . In the Dumfriesshire portion of the Upper Llandeilo area of the South of Scotland ...
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... Scotland . ( To be continued . ) LOCAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES N very many ways has the general advance of intelli- gence , elevation of taste , and spread of education been shown during the present century , and more espe- cially during ...
... Scotland . ( To be continued . ) LOCAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES N very many ways has the general advance of intelli- gence , elevation of taste , and spread of education been shown during the present century , and more espe- cially during ...
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... Scotland , " by Mr. James Get F.R.S. E .; " Weather and Climate , " by Mr. Alex . Buchan , F.R.S. E .; " The History of Commerce , " by Prof. W. E Hodgson , LL.D. THE same journal has the following details concerning the Italian ...
... Scotland , " by Mr. James Get F.R.S. E .; " Weather and Climate , " by Mr. Alex . Buchan , F.R.S. E .; " The History of Commerce , " by Prof. W. E Hodgson , LL.D. THE same journal has the following details concerning the Italian ...
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... SCOTLAND LOCAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES THORPE'S " QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : - · The Management of the British Museum . - Prof . W. STANLEY JEVONS , F.R.S .. On the Equilibrium of Temperature of a Gaseous Column subject ...
... SCOTLAND LOCAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES THORPE'S " QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : - · The Management of the British Museum . - Prof . W. STANLEY JEVONS , F.R.S .. On the Equilibrium of Temperature of a Gaseous Column subject ...
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