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... rocks , which is common to the Taconic and New York systems . The trilobite and fossils of the geologist of Vermont , ( Mr. Adams , ) which were found in the lower rocks about Lake Champlain , belong to an intercalated mass of shaly ...
... rocks , which is common to the Taconic and New York systems . The trilobite and fossils of the geologist of Vermont , ( Mr. Adams , ) which were found in the lower rocks about Lake Champlain , belong to an intercalated mass of shaly ...
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... rock which appears at the surface in the south - western cor- ner of Ohio , and the adjoining parts of Indiana and Kentucky . It is principally made up of bivalve shells , but contains numerous corals and fragments of trilobites and ...
... rock which appears at the surface in the south - western cor- ner of Ohio , and the adjoining parts of Indiana and Kentucky . It is principally made up of bivalve shells , but contains numerous corals and fragments of trilobites and ...
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... rock has the colour of ashes . It is six or seven feet thick , near Dayton ; but as it extends to the north and east , the ... rocks , the fossils of which are generally very different from those found FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE . 21.
... rock has the colour of ashes . It is six or seven feet thick , near Dayton ; but as it extends to the north and east , the ... rocks , the fossils of which are generally very different from those found FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE . 21.
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... rock , we al- most invariably find a free and open channel . The ocean , as has justly been said by Mr. Lyell , was the greatest of all agents in terrestrial degradation , and by the FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE . 29.
... rock , we al- most invariably find a free and open channel . The ocean , as has justly been said by Mr. Lyell , was the greatest of all agents in terrestrial degradation , and by the FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE . 29.
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... rock , which had to be acted on by wedges , crowbars and pickaxes to effect its reduction ; but , on exposure to the weather , it gradually pulverizes and becomes an adhesive blackish clay , but very different from the tenacious clay of ...
... rock , which had to be acted on by wedges , crowbars and pickaxes to effect its reduction ; but , on exposure to the weather , it gradually pulverizes and becomes an adhesive blackish clay , but very different from the tenacious clay of ...
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Página 58 - But Moses' hands were heavy ; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Página 85 - Institution. 2. Appropriations in different years to different objects ; so that in course of time each branch of knowledge may receive a share. 3. The results obtained from these appropriations to be published, with the memoirs before mentioned, in the volumes of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.
Página 86 - ... are to be prepared by collaborators eminent in the different branches of knowledge. 3. Each collaborator to be furnished with the journals and publications, domestic and foreign, necessary to the compilation of his report; to be paid a certain sum for his labors, and to be named on the title-page of the report. 4. The reports to be published in separate parts, so that persons interested in a particular branch can procure the parts relating to it without purchasing the whole. 5. These reports...
Página 85 - The volumes of the memoirs to be exchanged for the Transactions of literary and scientific societies, and copies to be given to all the colleges and principal libraries in this country. One part of the remaining copies may be offered for sale; and the other carefully preserved, to form complete sets of the work, to supply the demand from new institutions.
Página 82 - FOR THE INCREASE AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE AMONG MEN.
Página 86 - The emphasis upon publications as a means of diffusing knowledge was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In his formal plan for the Institution, Joseph Henry articulated a program that included the following statement: "It is proposed to publish a series of reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made from year to year in all branches of knowledge not strictly professional.
Página 83 - Regents the power of adopting such other parts of an organization as they may deem best suited to promote the objects of the bequest. "After much deliberation, the Regents resolved to divide the annual income...
Página 19 - ... from the clutches of the publicans, and the embraces of their pot companions, who followed them to the water's edge with many a hug, a kiss on each cheek, and a maudlin benediction in Canadian French. It was about the 12th of August that they left Mackinaw, and pursued the usual route by Green Bay, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, to Prairie du Chien, and thence down the Mississippi to St. Louis, where they landed on the third of September.
Página xvii - Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Página 85 - Each memoir presented to the institution to be submitted for examination to a commission of persons of reputation for learning in the branch to which the memoir pertains ; and to be accepted for publication only in case the report of this commission is favorable.