The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volumen32The Society, 1876 Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30) |
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... question whether this may not sometimes be the case also over large areas . There were marine- like deposits ( though not always shell - bearing ) up to heights of 2000 feet in Wales and Cumberland ; and Mr. G. M. Dawson has recently ...
... question whether this may not sometimes be the case also over large areas . There were marine- like deposits ( though not always shell - bearing ) up to heights of 2000 feet in Wales and Cumberland ; and Mr. G. M. Dawson has recently ...
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... question of the day is the problem of evolu- tion ; but geologists , as Kant says , are the archæologists of nature , and the sole direct and irrefragable evidence of the method whereby living things have become what they are , is to be ...
... question of the day is the problem of evolu- tion ; but geologists , as Kant says , are the archæologists of nature , and the sole direct and irrefragable evidence of the method whereby living things have become what they are , is to be ...
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... questions of climate , he again reverted to the antiquity of man , and re- lated that now famous apologue as to the difficulty so often experienced when called upon to make liberal grants of time to what may be termed the recent period ...
... questions of climate , he again reverted to the antiquity of man , and re- lated that now famous apologue as to the difficulty so often experienced when called upon to make liberal grants of time to what may be termed the recent period ...
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... question of priority between them . The following passages , extracted from the " Preface to the Con- siderations on Volcanos , " published in 1825 , might almost have been written by the author of the Principles of Geology , ' and are ...
... question of priority between them . The following passages , extracted from the " Preface to the Con- siderations on Volcanos , " published in 1825 , might almost have been written by the author of the Principles of Geology , ' and are ...
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... questions-- equally maintained in their latest writings the accuracy of his conclusions in the Auvergne district . In 1831 Mr. Poulett Scope , who had for some years been settled in the ancient family seat of the Scropes , of Wiltshire ...
... questions-- equally maintained in their latest writings the accuracy of his conclusions in the Auvergne district . In 1831 Mr. Poulett Scope , who had for some years been settled in the ancient family seat of the Scropes , of Wiltshire ...
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