The Lithology of EdinburghWilliam P. Kennedy, 1859 - 102 pages |
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... Scotland - Scales in the Old Red - Super- position of Strata - Dichotomy - Deal Fish - Ichthyolithus Clackmana- nensis - Visit of Agassiz and Buckland - Old Red - Ecclesiastical Con- troversies Non - intrusion - Letters to Neill on ...
... Scotland - Scales in the Old Red - Super- position of Strata - Dichotomy - Deal Fish - Ichthyolithus Clackmana- nensis - Visit of Agassiz and Buckland - Old Red - Ecclesiastical Con- troversies Non - intrusion - Letters to Neill on ...
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... Scotland as it was forty years ago . The gradual introduction of the large farm system has greatly altered the social condition of rural districts . In the house of a working farmer , like that in which Professor Fleming passed his ...
... Scotland as it was forty years ago . The gradual introduction of the large farm system has greatly altered the social condition of rural districts . In the house of a working farmer , like that in which Professor Fleming passed his ...
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... Scotland acted in two ways . On the one hand , it laid a grasp like that of a giant on the thoughtful youth of the period , and at one point and another suggested the possibility of the inauguration of scientific , as opposed to ...
... Scotland acted in two ways . On the one hand , it laid a grasp like that of a giant on the thoughtful youth of the period , and at one point and another suggested the possibility of the inauguration of scientific , as opposed to ...
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... Scotland . " The proceedings of " The Wernerian " shew that he fully kept his promise . Having been licensed as a preacher in connection with the Church of Scotland , he was soon after ordained over the con- gregation at Bressay , in ...
... Scotland . " The proceedings of " The Wernerian " shew that he fully kept his promise . Having been licensed as a preacher in connection with the Church of Scotland , he was soon after ordained over the con- gregation at Bressay , in ...
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... Scotland is so well supplied with churches that John Knox's average of a thousand people , for the care of one man , is very seldom possible except in large towns . If a man give , generally , his forenoons to theological study and ...
... Scotland is so well supplied with churches that John Knox's average of a thousand people , for the care of one man , is very seldom possible except in large towns . If a man give , generally , his forenoons to theological study and ...
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Aberdeen appearance Arthur's Seat bones boulder-clay boulders Bressay British Animals Buckland Chair of Natural character Christian Clackmannan clay College Contents Cupar Cuvier dear Sir deposit district Dr Chalmers Dr Fleming Dr Fleming's dressed surfaces Edin Edinburgh exhibited favour feel feet Fife fish Flisk fossils Free Church genus geologists geology GIDEON MANTELL give Granton gravel Holoptychius hope Hugh Miller illustrative inches indicated influence interesting John Journal kind labours lectures letter Lord Dundas Lyell marine mind Mineralogy minister Natural History Natural Science naturalist neighbourhood Neill notice observed occupied occurred Old Red Sandstone paper parish period phenomena Phil Philosophy of Zoology portion present Professor Jameson proof quadrupeds quarry referred regarded remains remarks ridge rocks Royal Society sand says scales scientific Scotland Scottish shells shew side silt species specimens St Andrews stone strata structure tion views Wernerian Society wrote Zoology