Transactions of the Albany Institute, Volume 10Webster and Skinners, 1883 - Albany (N.Y.) |
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... tion and a list of the species of fossils occurring in it . From this we learn that towards the north - western portion of the state the forma- tion begins to undergo a change . " The modification consists mainly in the introduction of ...
... tion and a list of the species of fossils occurring in it . From this we learn that towards the north - western portion of the state the forma- tion begins to undergo a change . " The modification consists mainly in the introduction of ...
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... tion indicating their growth in situ , taken with their graptolitic structure , precludes the idea of their being of other than marine origin . Formation and locality , Utica slate , town of Trenton , Oneida Co. , N. Y. DENDROGRAPTUS ...
... tion indicating their growth in situ , taken with their graptolitic structure , precludes the idea of their being of other than marine origin . Formation and locality , Utica slate , town of Trenton , Oneida Co. , N. Y. DENDROGRAPTUS ...
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... tion to the development of the subject at large- the direct influence of moral character upon language - by sketching , inadequately and summarily only , the salient features of one group of changed meanings in English the group whose ...
... tion to the development of the subject at large- the direct influence of moral character upon language - by sketching , inadequately and summarily only , the salient features of one group of changed meanings in English the group whose ...
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... tion of lay , a lewd fellow being etymologically merely a layman . So Chaucer , in the Canterbury Tales : " For if a priest be foul , on whom we trust , No wonder is a lewid man to rust . " But the rich and the learned have been tempted ...
... tion of lay , a lewd fellow being etymologically merely a layman . So Chaucer , in the Canterbury Tales : " For if a priest be foul , on whom we trust , No wonder is a lewid man to rust . " But the rich and the learned have been tempted ...
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... tion of really useful and practical knowledge , and exercised their wits less exclusively with " subtill quiddities , " the name of their great exemplar , Duns Scotus , might never have been corrupted , in form and meaning , into our ...
... tion of really useful and practical knowledge , and exercised their wits less exclusively with " subtill quiddities , " the name of their great exemplar , Duns Scotus , might never have been corrupted , in form and meaning , into our ...
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Albany Institute American angle angular pits apertures circular appearance Arms arranged in longitudinal basal plates base bifurcations Bryozoum carinated cell-apertures cells tubular cellules celluliferous side device diameter dissepiments earth elevated England English expansions fact FENESTELLA fenestrules formation fossils frequently frond Galena give granulose graptolites Graptolithus Hall Hudson River Indians Infundibuliform insanity intercellular space irregularly disposed language length LICHENALIA limestone Locality-Falls London longitudinal rows maculę margins means millimetre Miocene monument nodes non-celluliferous side oblique Ohio river original oval Paul's Chapel plates Pliocene portion present Prof pygidium Ramose ranges Richard Whittington ridge seal segments septa shales shield slightly sometimes space of five species specimens spines STICTOPORA stipe stone strię striated surface THALLOSTIGMA thin thorax tion town of Trenton transverse Trenton Triarthrus Becki trilobite tures Utica slate ventilation Whittington width of branches word York
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Page 58 - Fossil occurring free in the shales, or upon other fossil bodies, in slender branching fronds. Branches diverging, lax and slender, with numerous branchlets, both marked by numerous cellules which are usually indicated by the appearance of abrupt expansion and contraction of the branches.