The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 35A. and C. Black, 1843 - Science |
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... Description of the Skeleton of an extinct Gigantic Sloth , Mylodon robustus , Owen , with Observations on the Osteology , Natural Affinities , and probable Habits of the Megatherioid Qua- drupeds in general , with numerous plates . By ...
... Description of the Skeleton of an extinct Gigantic Sloth , Mylodon robustus , Owen , with Observations on the Osteology , Natural Affinities , and probable Habits of the Megatherioid Qua- drupeds in general , with numerous plates . By ...
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Page 194 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Page 215 - Poets and philosophers have delighted to compare the course of human life to that of a river ; perhaps a still apter simile might be found in the history of a glacier. Heaven-descended in its origin, it yet takes its mould and conformation from the hidden womb of the mountains which brought it forth.
Page 163 - The various amphibious animals, and myriads of birds which had resorted to the place, seemed to enjoy, in the highest degree, the transition thus occasioned by a few bright hours of sunshine. From an early hour in the morning until the period of rest returned, the shores around us reverberated with the merry cry of the little auk, willocks, divers, cormorants, gulls, and other aquatic birds ; and wherever we went, groups of walruses, basking in the sun, mingled their playful roar with the husky bark...
Page 155 - ... life. Having converted the dead and decomposing particles into their own living tissues, they themselves become the food of larger Infusoria...
Page 155 - For when this matter is dissolved or suspended in water, in that state of comminution and decay which immediately precedes its final decomposition into the elementary gases, and its consequent return from the organic to the inorganic world, these wakeful members of nature's invisible police are everywhere ready to arrest the fugitive organised particles, and turn them back into the ascending stream of animal life.
Page 362 - With Observations on the Osteology, Natural Affinities, and probable Habits of the Megatherioid Quadrupeds in general. By RICHARD OWEN, FRS, &c.
Page 364 - Institution, [etc.] 2 vols., 8vo. London, 1827, '28. 2714. .LONDON PHYSIOLOGICAL JOURNAL; or, Monthly Record of Observations on Animal and Vegetable Anatomy and Physiology. Chiefly made by the aid of the microscope. Edited by 8.
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Page 157 - Three or four feet within the door, and on a level with the village street, beer and quash were half frozen. A little further the narrow chasm opened into a vault fifteen feet high, ten paces long, and from seven to eight feet wide, which seemed to send off" irregular fissures into the body of the hillock. The whole of the roof and sides were hung with solid undripping icicles, and the floor was covered with hard snow, ice, or frozen earth. During the winter all these phenomena disappear ; and when...
Page 368 - North Wales, engineer, for certain improvements In machinery or apparatus for bleaching various fibrous substances, and is also in possession of an Invention of improvements In machinery or apparatus for converting or manufacturing the same Into paper.