Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Volume 8

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Linnean Society of New South Wales., 1884
 

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Page 47 - The first edition of this memoir was published in the Catalogue of the Natural and Industrial Products of New South Wales...
Page 548 - Society's bronze medal and a price of £'25 for each of the best researches, if of sufficient merit. Series III. — To be sent in not later than September 30, 1884 : No. 9. Origin and mode of occurrence of Gold-bearing Veins and of the associated minerals.
Page 548 - ... not be awarded to a member of the Council for the time being ; neither will an award be made for a mere compilation, however meritorious in its way. The communication, to be successful, must be either wholly or in part the result of original observation or research on the part of the contributor. The Society is fully sensible that the money value of the prize will not repay an investigator for the expenditure of his time and labour, but it is hoped that the honour will be regarded as a sufficient...
Page 558 - Straits the night being a fearful one ; the blinding fall of sand and stones, the intense blackness above and around us, broken only by the incessant glare of varied kinds of lightning, and the continued explosive roars of Krakatoa, made our situation a truly awful one.
Page 284 - There is now a double line of dendritic cells extending aloug the base of the anal and of the dorsal, and a few small cells at the base of the caudal rays. The dorsal and anal fins are separated from the caudal by a deep cut, but the caudal embryonic fin fold is still quite broad, and extends well beyond the base of the tail. In the next stage (Plate VI. fig. 4) the young Poronotus has assumed, though faintly, the general coloring of the adult. The whole body is slightly tinted with yellowish brown,...
Page 548 - The Royal society of New South Wales offers its medal and a money prize for the best communication (provided it be of sufficient merit) containing the results of original research or observation upon each of the following subjects : — Series vi. (to be sent in not later than May 1, 1887) : No. 20. ' On the silver-ore deposits of New South Wales,' the society's medal and £25 ; No.
Page 382 - God and turn to created objects, and that in a greater or less degree according to the strength of the act: and if, when I am turned towards the creature, I would return to God, I must necessarily form an act for that purpose; and the more perfect this act is, the more complete is the conversion.
Page 385 - Legs also seem'd all 4 of them to be Forelegs, being all alike in Shape and Length, and seeming by the Joints and Bending to be made as if they were to go indifferently either Head or Tail foremost. They were speckled black and yellow like Toads, and had Scales or Knobs on their Backs like those of Crocodiles, plated on to the Skin, or stuck into it, as part of the Skin. They are very slow in Motion; and when a Man comes nigh them they will stand still and hiss, not endeavouring to get away. Their...
Page 217 - Prof. Stephens added that without the actual specimen before them with all its collected fragments, it would be premature to determine even the genus of this ancient fish ; but pointed out that it appeared to have some points of resemblance to Macropctdlichthys of the North American Devonians.
Page 139 - Hibernica by Professor Forbes, associated with a large bivalve, named by him Anodon Jukesii, of undescribed dermal plates of a cartilaginous fish, probably a species of Coccosteus, and of numerous unknown plants, closely allied to Lepidodendron, and so named by Professor Forbes and M. Brongniart, the latter of whom has named a remarkable species, preserved in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society Lepidodendr&n Griffithi, Others of these fossil plants have been named Knorria, and a large undescribed...

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