The American Journal of Science and Arts

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S. Converse, 1866 - Geology

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Page 125 - Report of the CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF MINES FOR THE PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA, for the year 1865.
Page 42 - a special mineralization producing a bituminous matter instead of coal or lignite. This operation is not attributable to heat, nor of the nature of a distillation, but is due to chemical reactions at the ordinary temperature, and under the normal conditions of climate.
Page 436 - Warren was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; of the American Philosophical Society ; of the...
Page 7 - ... or grave had first been excavated in the soil before the mound itself was commenced. This grave was under the eastern part of the elevation, about four feet from the center. It consisted of a simple excavation in an east and west direction, about six feet long, three wide, and nearly two deep. In this grave were found parts of at least eight skeletons, which had evidently been thrown in carelessly — most of them soon after death, but one or two not until the bones had become detached and weathered....
Page 399 - This standard of force is termed a metrekilogram ;* and 425 metrekilograms are equal to that amount of heat which is necessary to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water through 1° C. If then it be found that the heat evolved by the combustion of a certain weight of charcoal or muscle, for instance, raises the temperature of 1 kilogram of water through 1° C., this means, when translated into mechanical power, 425 metrekilograms.
Page 6 - The earth separated readily through this stratum, and an examination of the exposed surfaces snowed that they were formed from two decayed layers of bark, on one of which the bodies had been placed, and the other covered over them. The smooth sides of the bark had thus come together, and the decomposition of the inner layers had produced the peculiar white substance, as a subsequent microscopic examination clearly indicated.
Page 23 - In the following considerations, all preconceived ideas regarding the relative positions of the dorso-ventral, and antero-posterior diameters of the animal must be laid aside, and the essential structure of the animal, if rightly understood, must be our guide. The gradual morphological changes of the contents of the sac, and all other relations, are based on the principle of Cephalization.
Page 392 - ... from two different sources. Each light forms its own spectrum. In the instrument these spectra appear superposed. The principal spectrum is analogous to that of the sun, and is evidently formed by the light of an incandescent solid or liquid photosphere, which has suffered absorption by the vapours of an envelope cooler than itself. The second spectrum consists of a few bright lines, which indicate that the light by which it is formed was emitted by matter in the state of luminous gas*.
Page 279 - He was a keen observer and a capital describer. He investigated accurately, worked readily and easily with microscope, pencil and pen, wrote perspicuously, and where the subject permitted, with captivating grace ; affording, in his lighter productions mere glimpses of the warm and poetical imagination, delicate humor, refined feeling, and sincere goodness which were charmingly revealed in intimate intercourse and correspondence, and which won the admiration and the love of all who knew him well....
Page 24 - Phylactoleemata, there is a partial and permanent inversion of the sac under like conditions. This latter group, combining the permanent inversion of the sac-walls with the lophophoric arms, is the first approach to the Brachiopoda. No organ corresponding to a heart has yet been discovered. In the Brachiopoda (Series I, B) we have a permanent invagination of the sac, and the mouth, as in Terebratula, already occupies a position some distance from the posterior edges of the overlapping shells, and...

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