Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, Volume 4Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1863 |
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Page 271 - My first duty this evening is to thank you for the honour you have conferred upon me in electing me your President for the ensuing year.
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Page 163 - Bclthorn the upper part is called the half-yard, and the lower the little coal. At Brookside and Duckworth Hall they again lie together, and are called the poor Robin bed.
Page 232 - ... changed into a stony substance, and globules appeared; these enlarged till they pressed laterally against each other, and became converted into polygonal prisms. The articulated structure and regular forms of basaltic columns have, there• Philos.
Page 264 - ... clerks into the military establishment and provide a permanent, trained corps ready at all times to meet any exigency of the service. I desire in this report to express my appreciation to the paymasters' clerks for the faithful and efficient manner in which they have performed their duties during the past fiscal year.
Page 230 - I am sorry to say that I shall not be able to attend the meeting of the Harvard Dental Association or take an active part in its proceedings.
Page 334 - the same place two antlers were found a short time ago, resting upon a loamy " clay, under a bed of peat, seven to eight feet deep, near a spring of water, in a " depression of the surface, where animals formerly resorted for the purpose of
Page 341 - ... or mycelial fungi, in which the growing filaments remain unsegmented and become thickened and even branched. These thickened, branched, and club-shaped forms of the bacilli would correspond to an atavism, and would recall a probable former fungoid phase in the evolutional history of these bacilli. The next point to which I wish to call your attention is the rapidity with which multiplication of the bacteria takes place. This differs according to the amount and nature of the nutriment or soil...
Page 144 - he had not obtained any certain information as to the existence in England of a lower ' Rothliegende/ or in general of any lower division of the Dyas. From the observations previously made in these pages, it appears that the absence of the hornstone porphyry (' Felsitporphyr ' proper) just in those districts of England has a bearing upon this question. It is repeatedly remarked that the existence of most of the porphyries are linked to the lower period of the Dyas, and, vice versa, that the formation...
Page 334 - ... found at the same place, and as they did not exhibit any appearance " of having been water worn, it was reasonable to infer the animal died near the " place where they were found. They appeared to be the remains of the red " deer, which, tradition says, were very abundant in the Rossendale valley. The " short horn was found along with several others, about a quarter of a mile " higher up the valley, and was probably the horn of Dos Piimigenius.