Geological Magazine, Volumen2;Volumen4;Volumen14Henry Woodward Cambridge University Press, 1877 |
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Página 185 - We may not merely admit," he says, " but assert as highly probable, that the axis of maximum inertia and axis of rotation, always very near one another, may have been in ancient times very far from their present geographical position, and may have gradually shifted through 10, 20, 30, 40, or more degrees, without at any time any perceptible sudden disturbance of either land
Página 268 - If you ask me whether there exists the least evidence to prove that any form of life can be developed out of matter, without demonstrable antecedent life, my reply is that evidence considered perfectly conclusive by many has been adduced...
Página 179 - The PRESIDENT then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund to Mr.
Página 180 - Corals, and noticed the unconforniability of the Carboniferous to the underlying group ; and even in those early days of his work he grasped the important idea that the geology of the typical area of Europe was not exactly comparable with that of Australia. From his knowledge of the country and of the physical development of the Australian Cordillera, Mr. Clarke was able to enlarge upon the relations of the sedimentary and intrusive rocks, and this led to his discovery of the auriferous quartzitOB...
Página 269 - In fact the whole process of evolution is the manifestation of a Power absolutely inscrutable to the intellect of man. As little in our day as in the days of Job can man by searching find this Power out.
Página 197 - The great interest in this eruption lay in the fact that we were able, on account of our position, to look down into the crater. In the intervals between the ejections the interior could be well seen, and it was observable that the sides had a slope of very nearly the same inclination as the exterior.
Página 425 - Shrew, Polecat, and Weasel. The only remains met with in the Fourth Bed were those of Bear, Horse, Ox, and Mammoth. The Human Industrial Remains exhumed in the Cavern were flint implements and a hammer-stone, and occurred in the Third and Fourth Beds only. The pieces of flint met with were 36 in number.
Página 197 - Coming, as we did, so suddenly upon the precipicelike edge of a huge black cauldron, roaring, shaking the ground and ejecting a dense column of red-hot stones and ashes, the wild and dismal aspect of which was heightened by dark clouds, driving rain, and a heavy mist, produced at first a feeling of timidity which was so strongly shown by our six so-called guides that it was with difficulty they were prevented from taking to precipitate flight...
Página 268 - But there is in the true man of science a wish stronger than the wish to have his beliefs upheld, — namely, the wish to have them true; and this stronger wish causes him to reject the most plausible support if he has reason to suspect that it is vitiated by error. Those to whom I refer as having studied this question, believing the evidence offered in favor of " spontaneous generation " to be thus vitiated, cannot accept it.
Página 91 - On Gigantic Land-Tortoises and a small Freshwater Species from the Ossiferous Caverns of Malta, together with a List of the Fossil Fauna, and a Note on Chelonian Remains from the Rock-cavities of Gibraltar.