Address Delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London on the 18th of February, 1876The Society, 1876 - 75 Seiten Discusses various geological topics including stratigraphy, paleontology, water-supply and deep sea deposits. |
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Seite 28 - On the character of the beds of Clay lying immediately below the Coal-seams of South Wales, and on the occurrence of Coal-boulders in the Pennant Grit of that district,
Seite 54 - We must only admit that we are face to face with a problem, whose solution in all probability must be attempted and, we doubt not, completed by the astronomer.
Seite 71 - That when efficient measures are adopted for excluding the sewage and other pollutions from the Thames and the Lee, and their tributaries, and for ensuring perfect filtration, water taken from the present sources will be perfectly wholesome, and of suitable quality for the supply of the Metropolis.
Seite 13 - It appeared to them more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities of the past, than patiently to explore the realities of the present ; and having invented theories under the influence of such maxims, they were consistently unwilling to test their validity by the criterion of their accordance with the ordinary operations of nature. On the contrary, the claims of each new hypothesis to credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast...
Seite 67 - Report of the Commissioners appointed in 1868 to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of Rivers (Mersey and Ribble basins).
Seite 13 - Jahrb. 1835, p. 101. 14. On the Cretaceous and Tertiary Strata of the Danish Islands of Seeland and Moe'n. — Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. 2, V. p. 243. — Proc. Geol. Soc. II. p. 191.— Phil. Mag. ser. 3, VII. p. 413.— L. u. Br. N. Jahrb. 1837, p. 347. 15. On the occurrence of Fossil Vertebrae of Fish of the Shark family in the Loess of the Rhine — Proc. Geol. Soc. II. p. 221 — Phil. Mag. ser. 3, VIII. p. 557. 16. Address to the Geological Society, 1836.— Proc. Geol. Soc. II. p. 357.— Phil....
Seite 25 - But it has the disadvantage of stopping also the advance of the science by involving it in obscurity and confusion. " If, however, instead of forming guesses as to what may have been the possible causes and nature of these changes, we pursue that which I conceive to be the only legitimate path of geological inquiry, and begin by examining the laws of nature which are actually in force, we cannot but perceive that numerous physical phenomena are going on at this moment on the surface of the globe,...
Seite 14 - On the Boulder Formation or Drift, and associated freshwater deposits composing the mud cliffs of Eastern Norfolk " (a memoir published in the London and Edin. Phil. Mag. for May 1840), and " On the Geological evidence of the former existence of Glaciers in Forfarshire.