Proceedings and Transactions of the Natural History Society of Glascow, Volume 6

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Page 297 - On Christmas eve the bells were rung; On Christmas eve the mass was sung ; That only night, in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear.
Page 269 - On the motion of the President, a vote of thanks was accorded...
Page 123 - On the structure and affinities of fossil plants from the Palaeozoic rocks. On Cheirostrobus, a new type of fossil cone from the Lower Carboniferous strata (Calciferous Sandstone series).
Page 30 - It was collected by Mr. Thomas Stock from the Calciferous Sandstone Series, Glencartholm, Eskdale, Dumfriesshire. II. ARCH.EOSIGILLARIA. Kidston, ng Plants with stems attaining a diameter of over 2-5 cm. Leafscars contiguous, broadly fusiform on younger branches, hexagonal on older stems, having a single vascular cicatrice.
Page 321 - Lord struck the said tree immediately thereafter; so that the whole leaves fell from it, and the tree withered, never bearing leaf thereafter, remaining so for the space of two years: which being cut down, there sprang out of the very heart of the root thereof a spring like unto blood popling up, running in several streams, all over the root...
Page 125 - ... the Carboniferous of Ohio. Other wood was found, but so poorly preserved as to be useless for purposes of determination. Papers which were of less value were published by Blanckenhorn,2 Beck,3 and others. To treat in anything like an exhaustive or satisfactory manner the elaborate memoir of Professor Williamson on the organization of the fossil plants of the coal measures...
Page 3 - Magilligan is the only northern locality in which the species has yet been met with by Mr. Hyndman or myself. It is thrown ashore quite fresh there " (Thompson). I have about a dozen valves from the sands of Port-Stewart. Mr. Praeger says, " I have a valve found by my brother at Magilligan.
Page 205 - Notes on the Marine Deposits of the Firth of Forth, and their Relation to its Animal Life," with lists of animals obtained, Trans.
Page 301 - ... labours of Professor Hepites contains the text of the various letters of congratulation addressed to him on his fiftieth birthday, together with a portrait. It is a remarkable piece of typography, an art in which the Rumanians excel. Meteorological Notes and Remarks upon the Weather during the year 1900, with its general effects upon vegetation, by JAMES WHITTON, Superintendent of Parks, Glasgow.
Page 160 - FRS, <tc., moved a vote of thanks to the lecturer, which was seconded by Mr.

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