The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 39

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Pagina 129 - A TREATISE ON THE METALLURGY OF IRON : containing Outlines of the History of Iron Manufacture, Methods of Assay, and Analyses of Iron Ores, Processes of Manufacture of Iron and Steel, &c. By H. BAUERMAN, FGS, Associate of the Royal School of Mines.
Pagina 82 - Committee for the purpose of investigating the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the Permeable Formations of England, and the Quality and Quantity of the Waters supplied to various towns and districts from these formations ; and that Mr. De Ranee be the Secretary.
Pagina 140 - CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHYSICAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES ; with a Dissertation on the Origin of Western Europe and of the Atlantic Ocean. With 27 Coloured Maps. By EDWARD HULL, MA, LL.D., FRS, late Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland.
Pagina 34 - ... the basis of a disquisition on the general subject of the variability of species (a doctrine early impressed on me by Dr. Prichard), I sent him a copy of the memoir (published in the Philosophical Transactions), with a sort of apology for having tried to make so much out of what might be thought so small and trivial a subject ; he replied with a most kindly approval of the object and manner of my work, adding " any single point is really the universe," — a remark whose pregnancy left an impression...
Pagina 32 - Donation Fund, and said: — Professor Morris, — The Council of the Geological Society, in awarding to Mr. John Young, of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, the balance of the proceeds of the Murchison Donation Fund, wishes to mark its appreciation of the value of his long-continued researches on the fossil polyzoa, especially those of the western part of Scotland, and of his investigations into the structure of the shells of the Carboniferous Brachiopoda. In his absence, I have much pleasure in placing...
Pagina 21 - as an acknowledgment of eminent services in any department of Geology, irrespective of the receiver's country; but he must not be older than 45 years at his last birthday, thus probably not too old for further work, and not too young to have done much.
Pagina 18 - To promote researches concerning the mineral structure of the earth, and to enable the Council of the Geological Society to reward those individuals of any country by whom such researches may hereafter be made," — " such individual not being a Member of the Council.
Pagina 611 - ... considerable quantities of pyroxene, as well as other minerals not yet determined. At various intervals throughout the zone of schistose rocks, occur rather coarsely crystalline white limestones. The structure of Mount Ida is a comparatively simple anticlinal, with so short an axis extending east and west that the upper portion of the mountain is approximately a dome.
Pagina 21 - as an acknowledgment of eminent services in any department of geology, irrespective of the receiver's country ; but he must not be older than forty-five years at his last birthday, thus probably not too old for further work, and not too young to have done much.
Pagina 104 - On Mineral Vein Formation now in Progress at Steamboat Springs Compared with the Same at Sulphur Bank.

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