Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society. (Manchester Memoirs), Volumes 62-63 |
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Page 134 - ... useful in the science of religion. If there is a truly genetic relationship of languages, the same relationship ought to hold together the religions of the world, at least the most ancient religions. Before we proceed therefore to consider the proper classification of religions, it will be necessary to say a few words on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the genetic relationship of languages. If we confine ourselves to the Asiatic continent with its important peninsula of Europe,...
Page 116 - XCV, fig. 73, b, c. This species is common in most of my Gatherings, and the specimens as a rule are robust and typical. (There is a considerable range of variation in the large series of specimens selected, many of them being almost flat on the inferior side.) 287. TRUNCATULINA UNGERIANA, (d'Orbigny.) Rotalina ungeriana, d'Orbigny, 1846, Foram. Foss. Vienne, p. 157, pi. VIII, figs. 16-18. Truncatulina ungeriana, Brady, 1884, Chall. Rep., vol. IX, p. 664, pi.
Page 119 - ... angular periphery on the inferior side tends to approach Anomalina coronata, P. & J.) 298. ANOMALINA AMMONOIDES, (Reuss.) Rosalina ammonoides. Reuss, 1845, Verstein. bohm. Kreid., pt. I, p. 36, pl. VIII, fig. 53; and pl. XIII, fig. 66. Anomalina ammonoides, Brady, 1884, Chall. Rep., vol. IX, p. 672, pl. XCIV, figs. 2-3. Occurs frequently throughout the whole extent of the Marl beds. (A large and variable series of specimens ranging from smooth types with excavate umbilici, to strongly developed...
Page v - There are only a very few men who have stood in a similar position and who have been urged by the love of some truth, which they were confident was to be found though its form was as yet undefined, to devote themselves to minute observations and patient manual and mental toil in order to bring their thoughts into exact accordance with things as they are.
Page 66 - ... radicula is rather rare, and in these collections is generally so'mewhat irregular or distorted in growth. 138. NODOSARIA (DENTALINA) PLEBEIA, Reuss. Dentalina plebeia, Reuss, 1855, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Ges.. vol. VII, p. 267, pi.
Page 10 - On the evidence afforded by Bode's Law of a permanent Contraction of the Radii Vectores of the Planetary Orbits.
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Page 3 - He afterwards writes, October 4, 1791: 'I have at length completed the book of plants, and made an index both to the Linnaean and English names. I am not so confident in my abilities as to maintain that I have given no plant a wrong name, but I believe the skilful botanist will find very few, if any, miscalled.
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