The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science: With Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Montreal, Volume 8

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Dawson., 1878
 

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Page 93 - I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward. Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
Page 14 - To assume that the evidence of the beginning, or end, of so vast a scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations which subsist between the finite powers of man and the attributes of an infinite and eternal Being.
Page 157 - Guinea, as alike physically as two distinct countries can be, are zoologically as wide as the poles asunder ; while Australia, with its dry winds, its open plains, its stony deserts, and its temperate climate, yet produces birds and quadrupeds which are closely related to those inhabiting the hot, damp, luxuriant forests which everywhere clothe the plains and mountains of New Guinea.
Page 40 - He was strong in body, of active mind, industrious and doggedly persevering, painstaking, a lover of truth, generous, possessed of the keenest knowledge of human nature, sound in judgment, but always cautious in expressing an opinion. He belonged to that school of geologists — unfortunately not so numerously represented as it ought to be — whose motto is, " Facts, then theories," and was wholly above rasping down facts to make them fit theories.
Page 34 - Stigmaria underclays. Shortly after his visit to the Joggins, he wrote to a friend as follows: " I never before saw such a magnificent section as is there displayed. The rocks along the coast are laid bare for thirty miles, and every stratum can be touched and examined in nearly the whole distance. A considerable portion has a high angle of inclination, and the geological thickness thus brought to view is very great. I measured and registered every bed occurring in a horizontal distance of ten miles,...
Page 38 - ... the confidence which the inhabitants of the Province have reposed in me, in my endeavors to develop the truth in regard to the mineral resources of the Province ; and in this work none could have been more interested in my success than the members of this Institute." * In August, 1857, the American Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting in Montreal, and for several months previous Sir .William was hard at work getting his museum in readiness to receive his brother...
Page 155 - ... eminent palaeontologist. The Miocene clay beds of New Guinea, judging from the specimens collected by Mr. Macleay, are exactly similar in lithological character to the Lower Miocene beds near Geelong, and on the Cape Otway coast in Victoria.
Page 243 - ... had, at no very remote period of time, produced tall and stately timber, as many of their dead trunks were found standing erect, and still rooted fast in the ground in different stages of decay, those being the most perfect that, had been the least subject to the influence of the salt water, by which they were surrounded on every...
Page 155 - Yellow and hlue calcareous clays (Tertiary), from Yule Island and Hall's Sound. It is with reference more particularly to the fossiliferous clays that I would offer a few remarks. These clays, as indicated by the fossils contained in them, belong to the Lower Miocene Tertiary period. So far as I am aware, this is the first notice of such fossils having been discovered in New Guinea ; and this discovery of Mr. Macleay's is...
Page 34 - It gives details of nearly the whole thickness of the coal formation of Nova Scotia, or 14,570 feet, including seventy-six beds of coal and ninety distinct Stigmaria underclays.

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