 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1856 - 642 páginas
...wedge-shaped configuration, and the coincidence of one of its edges with the vertical fibres of the wood." In reply to a question I subsequently put to Dr. Shepard...brittle character. In the interior of the Cabarras county, N. Carolina, a stone (October 31, 1849) I know struck a tree, and I found it was difficult,... | |
 | 1856 - 606 páginas
...wedge-shaped configuration, and the coincidence of onu of its edges with the vertical fibres of the wood." In reply to a question I subsequently put to Dr. Shepard...one of a brittle character. In the interior of the Gabarras county, N. Carolina, a stone (October 31, 1849) I know struck a tree, and I found it was difficult,... | |
 | 1855 - 496 páginas
...theoretical views are ingenious in his endeavour to explain how meteorites are derived from the moon. whether he knew of any examples of meteorites having...to fragments, it being one of a brittle character. la the interior of the Cabarras county, N. Carolina, a stone (October 31, 1849) I know struck a tree,... | |
 | 1855 - 1086 páginas
...meteorites are derived from the moon. whether he knew of any examples of meteorites having struck tree? in America, he replied as follows : — " I think...brittle character. In the interior of the Cabarras county, N. Carolina, a stone (October 31, 1849) I know struck a tree, and I found it was difficult,... | |
 | 1855 - 1070 páginas
...theoretical views are ingenious in his endeavour to explain how meteorites are derived from the moon. whether he knew of any examples of meteorites having...with Mr. Reeks at the Museum, an account of the fall erf Lottie Piney, Missouri, February 13th, 1839; in which it is stated that the stone struck a tree... | |
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In reply to a question I subsequently put to Dr. Shepard as to whether he knew of any examples of meteorites having struck trees in America, he replied as follows :— " I think you will find in the volume I left with Mr. Reeks at the Museum, an account... 