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Pagina 14
... Minerals , Ores , Fossils , In- dian relics , & c . with a descriptive catalogue . - From Francis Markoe , jr . Fauna Columbiana , by T. B. J. Frye , M. D. in MS . - From the author . 48 Specimens of American wood . - From John Lenthall ...
... Minerals , Ores , Fossils , In- dian relics , & c . with a descriptive catalogue . - From Francis Markoe , jr . Fauna Columbiana , by T. B. J. Frye , M. D. in MS . - From the author . 48 Specimens of American wood . - From John Lenthall ...
Pagina 15
... Minerals formed by Leske , a favorite pupil of Werner , con- sisting of upwards of 7,000 specimens , each of which is elaborately described in a printed catalogue for the benefit of students . The arrangement of this Cabinet has been ...
... Minerals formed by Leske , a favorite pupil of Werner , con- sisting of upwards of 7,000 specimens , each of which is elaborately described in a printed catalogue for the benefit of students . The arrangement of this Cabinet has been ...
Pagina 20
... Mineral and Vegetable produc- tions , and , if not to preserve the animals and plants themselves , which are pass- ing away before the progress of settlement and cultivation , at least to perpetuate their forms , and the memory of their ...
... Mineral and Vegetable produc- tions , and , if not to preserve the animals and plants themselves , which are pass- ing away before the progress of settlement and cultivation , at least to perpetuate their forms , and the memory of their ...
Pagina 23
... Mineral and Geological specimens ; but what , for the most part , has become of these collections ? They are dispersed where neither the Government nor the people generally can make use of them . For the promo- tion of science and the ...
... Mineral and Geological specimens ; but what , for the most part , has become of these collections ? They are dispersed where neither the Government nor the people generally can make use of them . For the promo- tion of science and the ...
Pagina 24
... mineral , useful or necessary to the wants of man , is found in greater or less abundance . In our southern States , gold ; in our western , copper , lead , and zinc ; and almost in all , iron and coal , in inexhaustible quantities ...
... mineral , useful or necessary to the wants of man , is found in greater or less abundance . In our southern States , gold ; in our western , copper , lead , and zinc ; and almost in all , iron and coal , in inexhaustible quantities ...
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