Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, 6. kötetThe Society, 1881 |
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9 fathoms Aberdour Aberlady Bay abundant Acct animals appearance bark Bass Rock beach bird Bo'ness H. B. B. boulder clay Caithness centre coast colour common Cramond Island D'Orb Dalkeith deposit described district dredged this species Dunbar Dunkeld east Edinburgh eggs Elie evidence fathoms Firth Forbes forest found this species frequently Glen Glen Tanar Granton Holy Isle horns Howd inch Inchkeith Johnst Largo Bay last summer Leith Lepidodendron Linn Loch low water margin migration miles Minto Mont moraine Müll nest Newhaven North Berwick north-west occur olfactory tubercle oyster bank parish perforations Perthshire pier plates Polyzoa Portobello Professor record sand at North says seen shell sand shelly boulder clay shelly drift shore side of Holy specimens squirrel St Abb's Head Stat stones Synapta T. S. Wright taken Tala tide marks tion trees Wardie water mark woods
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184. oldal - ... classification of the various devices actually found upon the vases and other monuments.8 The writers, as a rule, content 1 The only previous discussion of which I am aware is the dissertation of Fuchs, De ratione quam veteres artifices in clipeis imaginibus exornandis adhibuerint, Gottingen, 1852. This, I am sorry to say, I have not been able to consult at first hand. Fuchs' general conclusions, however, are given by Helbig {Horn.
46. oldal - Six were chosen as a reserve, in case any of those named should fail or be carried overboard by a sea, so that one of these might take his place : — Let six rise now, quick and ready, Handy, lively, Who will go, and come, and leap Up and down her, Like a hare on mountain top, Dogs pursuing, Who can climb the tight hard shrouds Of slender hemp, Nimbly as the May-time squirrel Up a tree-trunk...
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148. oldal - London, that not less than twenty thousand squirrels are annually sold there for the menus pluisirs of cockneys, part of which come from France, but the greater number are brought in by labourers to Newgate and Leadenhall markets, where any morning during the season four or five hundred might be bought. He said that he himself sold annually about seven hundred : and, he added, that about once in seven years the breed of squirrels entirely fails, but that in other seasons they are equally prolific...
316. oldal - ... latitude of Edinburgh would be 312 feet. By this means he endeavoured to account for the submergence during the glacial period, instead of ascribing it to a subsidence of the land. Following up the idea of the existence of Continental icesheets during the glacial period, he was the first to suggest that the Scandinavian and Scotch ice-sheets coalesced on the floor of the North sea, moving westwards towards the Atlantic, thereby accounting for the marine shells and boulders of Secondary rocks...
9. oldal - early in the morning, in the gentle, clear, and calm air, lift up their upper shells and mouths a little above the water, and there receive of the fine and pleasant breath or dew of heaven, and afterwards, accordmg to the measure and quantity of this vital force received, they first conceive, then swell, and finally product the pearl." " The pearls that are so got in Scotland...
338. oldal - Ornithorhynchus are meroblastic. This discovery will have an important bearing on the question of the origin of the mammals, and is antagonistic to the suggestion of Professor Huxley that the type was a direct derivative from the amphibians, while it increases the possibility that Professor Cope may be nearer the truth in affiliating the ancestors of the mammals to the theriomorphous reptiles of the Permian.
190. oldal - ... broken by use and worn away and replaced by others. The anchors are developed before the anchor-plates. First, we find a simple, slender spiculum (fig. 1) ; then another (fig. 2), longer and expanded at one end ; those only which have attained their full length begin to develope flukes (figs. 4, 5) ; and it is not until the anchors are completely grown that we detect any trace of the anchor-plate. This also makes its appearance as a straight needle lying beneath the middle of the shank ; in the...