The Edinburgh New Philosophical JournalA. and C. Black, 1861 |
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... Dr Hjaltalin , the Physician - general of Iceland , drew up a similar narrative in English , which he requested me to get inserted in some of our Scotch newspapers , and which accordingly appeared at full length , and as it was put into ...
... Dr Hjaltalin , the Physician - general of Iceland , drew up a similar narrative in English , which he requested me to get inserted in some of our Scotch newspapers , and which accordingly appeared at full length , and as it was put into ...
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... sand , but did little damage . The eruption is reported in the " Klaus- NEW SERIES . - VOL . XIII . NO . I. — JAN . 1861 . C is included ; but in Dr Hjaltalin's chronological account it of the Kötlugjá Volcano , Iceland . 17.
... sand , but did little damage . The eruption is reported in the " Klaus- NEW SERIES . - VOL . XIII . NO . I. — JAN . 1861 . C is included ; but in Dr Hjaltalin's chronological account it of the Kötlugjá Volcano , Iceland . 17.
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is included ; but in Dr Hjaltalin's chronological account it is omitted , and we prefer to follow his example . Myrdals - jökul , according to Gunnlaugsson , is situated in 63 ° 40 ′ north lati- tude , and in 19 ° 40 ′ west longitude ...
is included ; but in Dr Hjaltalin's chronological account it is omitted , and we prefer to follow his example . Myrdals - jökul , according to Gunnlaugsson , is situated in 63 ° 40 ′ north lati- tude , and in 19 ° 40 ′ west longitude ...
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... Dr Hjaltalin a portion of the duplicates of the geological and mineralogical col- lection in the Government College of Reykjavik . Both these gentlemen are excellent geologists and mineralogists , and I therefore feel warranted in rely ...
... Dr Hjaltalin a portion of the duplicates of the geological and mineralogical col- lection in the Government College of Reykjavik . Both these gentlemen are excellent geologists and mineralogists , and I therefore feel warranted in rely ...
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... Dr Hjaltalin from the Fossvogur near Reykjavik . In the former place it is stratified and fissile , the rock forming low cliffs , which are rapidly being eroded by the waves . Some specimens were of the ordinary colour of clay , grayish ...
... Dr Hjaltalin from the Fossvogur near Reykjavik . In the former place it is stratified and fissile , the rock forming low cliffs , which are rapidly being eroded by the waves . Some specimens were of the ordinary colour of clay , grayish ...
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ambulacral animals appears ashes axis basalt beds Botanic bracts Cabinet Library volume Carboniferous chlorite cloud coast cold colour containing Cornwall crater Darwin deposits district Dr Hjaltalin earth earthquake Echinocystites Edinburgh Cabinet Library eruptions of Kötlugjá existence experiments Eyafjalla fact feet fissures frost geological gneiss ground heat Hekla Henderson hills hoar-frost inches island Islendingur jökuls Kertch lava Ledbury less limestone lower Malvern masses miles mineral mountain Murray Thomson Myrdals-jökul nature night observations Old Red Old Red Sandstone olivinic organs ovules palagonite palagonite-tuff particles Patrick Wilson phenomena plant plant-axis plates pole probably produced Professor pumice quantity quartzite Red Sandstone reference regard remarkable Reykjavik rocks sand says SERIES.-VOL Silurian silver snow soil species specimens strata surface syenite symmetry temperature theory thermometer tion tuff vegetable volcano volcanoes of Iceland volume on Iceland water-floods Wilson
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Seite 122 - This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Seite 129 - I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine. It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the " plan of creation," " unity of design," &c., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.
Seite 155 - It is a truly wonderful fact — the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity — that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other...
Seite 128 - Every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with a pre-existing closely allied species" connects together and renders intelligible a vast number of independent and hitherto unexplained facts.
Seite 128 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Seite 204 - If we would study with profit the history of our ancestors, we must be constantly on our guard against that delusion which the well known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live.
Seite 204 - Many thousands of square miles, which are now rich corn land and meadow, intersected by green hedge-rows, and dotted with villages and pleasant country seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks.
Seite 132 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Seite 204 - Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand.
Seite 306 - Flora of the Southern United States ; containing abridged descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, arranged according to the natural system. By AW Chapman, MD The Ferns by Daniel C.