The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science: With Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Montreal, Volume 8Dawson., 1878 |
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Page 95 - Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavyfruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.
Page 159 - Guinea, as alike physically as two distinct countries can be, are zoologically as wide as the poles asunder ; while Australia, with its dry winds, its open plains, its stony deserts, and its temperate climate, yet produces birds and quadrupeds which are closely related to those inhabiting the hot, damp, luxuriant forests which everywhere clothe the plains and mountains of New Guinea.
Page 16 - To assume that the evidence of the beginning, or end, of so vast a scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations which subsist between the finite powers of man and the attributes of an infinite and eternal Being.
Page 157 - The Miocene clay beds of New Guinea, judging from the specimens collected by Mr. Macleay, are exactly similar in lithological character to the Lower Miocene beds near Geelong, and on the Cape Otway coast in Victoria.
Page 157 - Cay. 6. Yellow calcareous (Tertiary) clay, from Katau River. 7. Yellow and blue calcareous clays (Tertiary), from Yule Island and Hall's Sound. It is with reference more particularly to the fossiliferous clays that I would offer a few remarks. These clays, as indicated by the fossils contained in them, belong to the Lower Miocene Tertiary period. So far as I am aware, this is the first notice of such fossils having been discovered in New Guinea ; and this discovery of Mr. Macleay's is the...
Page 369 - Prompted by that most exigent law of hunger— spurred on for very life— It rises in immense clouds in the air to seek for fresh pastures where it may stay Its ravenous appetite. Borne along by...
Page 331 - The origin of the kames has been a question much discussed by European geologists, and the theory commonly accepted on both sides of the Atlantic was, that they were heaped up in these peculiar ridges and mounds through the agency of marine currents during a submergence of the land. Even if such ridges could be formed by this cause under any circumstances, it seemed impossible to account thus for the kames in the Connecticut and Merrimack Valleys...
Page 15 - The disposition of the seas, continents, and islands, and the climates, have varied; the species likewise have been changed, and yet they have all been so modelled, on types analogous to those of existing plants and animals, as to indicate throughout a perfect harmony of design and unity of purpose.
Page 378 - The work is undertaken by the brothers Zsigmondy, partially at the expense of the city, which has granted 40,000/. for the purpose, with the intention of obtaining an unlimited, supply of warm water for the municipal establishments and public baths.
Page 157 - Guinea ; and this discovery of Mr. Macleay's is the more interesting inasmuch as the Miocene marine beds, which occupy a considerable area in Victoria and South Australia, have nowhere been found on the eastern coast of Australia, north of the Victorian border — Cape Howe. Referring to this fact the Rev. WB Clarke says that, "throughout the whole of Eastern Australia, including New South Wales and Queensland, no Tertiary marine deposits have been discovered.