Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Volumen8

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Linnean Society of New South Wales., 1884
 

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Página 47 - The first edition of this memoir was published in the Catalogue of the Natural and Industrial Products of New South Wales...
Página 565 - Their thickness varies from 2 to 5 feet. The Hartley shale yields 160 gallons of crude oil, or 18,000 cubic feet of gas per ton, with an illuminating power equal to forty candles. The total production of coal to December 31st, 1881, was 23,881,479 tons, of the value of £12,255,307 13s.
Página 580 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Página 400 - JI mention a skull of a native (Papuan) from the Island Namatote, near the Coast of Papua-Koviay, which breadth-index was calculated being 62.0. Prof. WH Flower in a paper, " On the Cranial Characters of the Natives of the Fiji Islands " (Journal of the Anthropological Institute, November 1880), gives some very low cephalic indices of some skulls of the Kai-Colos, or Mountaineers of the interior of Vi ti Levu ; the lowest of these indices was 62.9, calculated on the Ophrio-occipital length, and 61.9...
Página 548 - Society's bronze medal and a price of £'25 for each of the best researches, if of sufficient merit. Series III. — To be sent in not later than September 30, 1884 : No. 9. Origin and mode of occurrence of Gold-bearing Veins and of the associated minerals.
Página 531 - Medusse, where they are safe from their enemies, and are, without any exertion on their part, supplied with the minute organisms which constitute their food, by the constant current kept up by the action of the curtain-like cilia of the animal.
Página 284 - Dentition ° strong canines in front — two or three small ones on each side above— a small one alternately with the large ones below ; behind the upper and lower canines, a band of viliform teeth ; teeth on the palate, none on the vomer ; six barbels in two converging rows on the chin, with one intermediate near the angle, all small. The dorsal and anal fins are separated from the caudal by a slight notch. There are rudimentary embedded scales on the hinder part of the trunk and on half of the...
Página 197 - Dorianus, a new species of Tree Kangaroo from Mount Owen Stanley, New Guinea, described by Mr. EP Ramsay at the January meeting of the Society. He pointed out that the hair on the body all turned the wrong way. Mr. Macleay also exhibited some specimens of a Moth, with a fungus upon which their larvae had fed.
Página 542 - AS highly instructive with regard to one of the most important subjects that can engage the attention of literary or scientific students, the art.
Página 138 - Feistmantel, loc. cit. p. 76. A tree trunk with slender terete branches, cushions or raised scars subglobose, pitted, approximate, spirally disposed, impressions oblong oval, rather deep, situate in the upper portion of the oblong ovate tubercle. The species was found in two places in New South Wales, according to Dr. Feistmantel, named Goonoo Goonoo Creek, near Tamworth, and at Smith's Creek. Dr. Feistmantel was of opinion that the species was so near G.

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