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Seite 199 - We conceive that the earth's solid crust of anhydrous and primitive igneous rock is everywhere deeply concealed beneath its own ruins, which form a great mass of sedimentary strata, permeated by water. As heat from beneath invades these sediments, it produces in them that change which constitutes normal metamorphism. These rocks, at a sufficient depth, are necessarily in a state of igneo-aqueous fusion, and in the event of fracture of the overlying strata, may rise among them, taking the form of...
Seite 111 - Indiana, during the months of April, May, June, July, August. September and October, of any year: Provided, That nothing in.
Seite 225 - The Meeting then proceeded to the election of Officers for the ensuing year, and the...
Seite 52 - ... which characterize the hind lobe of each hemisphere. The superficial grey matter KS- 5-~ 'SeStoof the cerebrum, through the number and depth of the convolutions, attains its maximum of extent in Man. Peculiar mental powers are associated with this highest form of brain, and their consequences wonderfully illustrate the value of the cerebral character ; according to my estimate of which, I am led to regard the genus Homo, as not merely a representative of a distinct order, but of a distinct subclass...
Seite 277 - Professor of the Literature of the Arts of Design" in the educational institution termed the University of New York; but he never delivered a single lecture.
Seite 302 - By the use of the microscope and the conviction of the necessity of studying the history of the development of the plant in order to ascertain its true structure and relations, Brown changed the face of botany. He gave life and significance to that which had been dull and purposeless. His influence was felt in every direction : — the microscope became a necessary instrument in the hands of the philosophical botanist, and the history of development was the basis on which all improvement in classification...
Seite 52 - In Man the brain presents an ascensive step in development, higher and more strongly marked than that by which the preceding subclass was distinguished from the one below it.
Seite 84 - ... somewhat rounded end, facing the sea on the north ; their rise is first well marked at from a quarter of a mile to a mile from the shore, and in about a mile more inland they attain their greatest elevation ; continuing this elevation to the south and widening, they narrow the intermediate valley, until, as far as known, the country becomes in appearance of a gently undulating character.
Seite 140 - Corallum or bryozoum fixed, (free?) compound or simple, the parts bi-laterally arranged, consisting of simple stipes or of few or many simple or variously bifurcating branches, radiating more or less regularly from a centre, and in the compound forms united towards their base in a continuous thin corneous membrane or disk formed by an expansion of the substance of the branches, and which in the living state may have been in some degree gelatinous. Branches with a single or double series of cellules...
Seite 115 - ... a perceptible rise of the waters above, which indeed from the very first taking of the bridge gradually and slowly increase for a considerable way up. There is no place on the St. Lawrence where all the phenomena of the taking, packing and shoving of the ice are so grandly displayed as in the neighbourhood of Montreal. The violence of the currents is here...