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Page 6 - Proceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1847.
Page 163 - Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. Figures and Descriptions illustrative of British Organic Remains.
Page 216 - An address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 19th of February, 1841 ; and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year.
Page 46 - In the afternoon the committee for counting the votes, reported that the following gentlemen were elected officers of the society for the ensuing year...
Page 54 - Report on the geology of the Lake Superior land district : by JW Foster and JD Whitney, United States Geologists. Part II.
Page 217 - Map of that part of the mineral lands adjacent to lake Superior, ceded to the United States by the treaty of 1842 with the Chippewas.
Page 165 - ... the Society since its foundation. I need not remind the Society how much of the success which has attended our meetings since the beginning has been contributed to by the kindness of the Institution of Civil Engineers. I will therefore, without further preface, move the following resolution : — " That the cordial thanks of the Society be presented to the President and Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers for their kindness and liberality in continuing to allow the meetings of the Society...
Page 272 - ... of arsenic and lead would render it extremely easy to obtain from it metallic tin of the very first quality. The mineral itself occurs in grains varying in size from fine sand up to pebbles of half an inch in diameter, and for the most part of a dark brown colour, with some fragments of various tints of yellow and red; some presenting the peculiar appearance to which the name " wood tin
Page 160 - ESQ. PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR, The following Report from the Council was read : — THE Council have to offer to you their report for the past year.
Page 195 - E., taking nearly the general direction of the channel, but pressing more heavily on the Wigtownshire coast; off which it has scooped out a remarkable ditch, upwards of twenty miles long by about a mile only in width, in which the depth is from 400 to 600 feet greater than that of the general level of the bottom about it.