The History of the Geological Society of LondonGeological Society, 1907 - 336 pagina's |
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Pagina xx - GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.
Pagina 101 - English geologists is still an essential desideratum in this department; and I am happy to have it in my power to state, that...
Pagina 178 - I refused the former point blank, and accepted the latter only provisionally, telling Sir Henry that I did not care for fossils, and that I should give up Natural History as soon as I could get a physiological post.
Pagina 55 - At the same time that he thus gratified my desires as to scientific employment, he still advised me not to give up the prospects I had before me, telling me that science was a harsh mistress ; and, in a pecuniary point of view, but poorly rewarding those who devoted themselves to her service.
Pagina 96 - But the Silurian, though ancient, are not, as before stated, the most ancient fossiliferous strata. They are, in truth, but the upper portion of a succession of early deposits which it may hereafter be found necessary to describe under one comprehensive name. For this purpose I venture to suggest the term Protozoic Rocks, thereby to imply the first or lowest formations in which animals or vegetables appear.
Pagina 262 - ... impleaded, answer and be answered unto in every Court of us, our heirs, and successors, and be for ever able and capable in the law to purchase, receive, possess, and...
Pagina 55 - My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of Science, which I imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, induced me at last to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy...
Pagina 90 - can speak with gratitude of the practical lessons I have received from Mr Smith: it was by tracking his footsteps, with his maps in my hand, through Wiltshire and the neighbouring counties, where he had trodden nearly thirty years before, that I first...
Pagina 137 - If the analogy of the facts which he has observed in Scotland, Ireland, and the north of England, with those in Switzerland, be correct, then it must be admitted, M. Agassiz says, that not only glaciers once existed in the British Islands, but that large sheets (nappes) of ice covered all the surface.
Pagina 44 - But if any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old ; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant ; to attain, in fact, to clear and demonstrative knowledge instead of attractive and probable theory...