The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850

"There is certainly no reason for believing," he says, "that there has been any diminution in the general volume of water coming from the south. The great change in the level ca...

THIRD QUARTER.--The temperature of the quarter ending September 30th is 0°·37 _below_ the average, and the complement of the dew-point, as compared with the two previous years,...

Whoever takes a philosophical view of the subject of Natural History, and is familiar with the above stated facts, will now understand why, notwithstanding the specific distinct...

But without discussing any farther the theoretical views of the question, let me describe more minutely the facts, as observed on the northern shores of Lake Superior. The polis...

The sturgeons are generally large fishes, which live at the bottom of the water, feeding with their toothless mouths upon decomposed organized substances. Their movements are ra...

10. _Fossil Crinoids of the United States._--At the meeting of the American Association, 1849, a paper on the fossil crinoids of Tennessee, by Professor Troost, was read by Prof...

In conclusion, we have the pleasure of adding that although the Geographical Society could not exactly award with propriety their Royal gold medal to discoveries in their scienc...

I have myself shewn that there are such centres of distribution in Scotland, and England, and Ireland; and these facts have been since traced in detail in various parts of the B...

With the _Articulata_, we find another state of things. Two of their classes, the worms and _Crustacea_, are chiefly marine, or at least aquatic, as we have a number of fresh-wa...

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Again, to bring to your recollection the numerous works which have placed Pilla among the most eminent geologists of Italy, is to do honour to the memory of an associate, whose...

For instance, the fossil fishes with a heterocercal tail, found below the new red sandstone, down to the lowest deposits, reminds us of the peculiar termination of the vertebral...

The water-telescope is an instrument which the people of Norway have found of so great utility, that there is scarcely a single fishing-boat without one of three or four feet in...

"The abundance of Lonchopteris Mantelli is a character of the Wealdean formations of the south of England and the department of the Oise, where this fossil seems to make its app...

"2_d_, The great number of Coniferæ, the greater part belonging to genera still existing, but among which the Cupressineæ appear to predominate, especially if we admit as positi...

Footnote 4: The above view of the geography of animals appeared partly in an American periodical and partly in Professor Agassiz's beautiful and important work (just received) o...

The report states, that since the law took effect, July 1848, over 90,000 lbs. of drugs of various kinds have been rejected and condemned in the ports of the United States. Of t...

1. _Use of Coloured Glasses to assist the View in Fogs._--M. Lavini of Turin, in a letter to the editor of _L'Institut_ at Paris, makes the following curious observation, which,...

Again, in examining the remains of organized beings preserved in the different strata constituting the solid crust of our globe, we find that at each period, animals and plants...

In the Wadi _El Sheikh_, meaning the "Valley of the Elder," or "Chief," which is one of the principal valleys in the Peninsula, before coming to "Moses' seat" (_Mokad Seidna Mou...

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