The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volumen 83

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Página xxxi - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill. Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Página lxvii - ... the characters which naturalists consider as showing true affinity between any two or more species, are those which have been inherited from a common parent, and, in so far, all trut classification is genealogical; that community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking...
Página 437 - They are the proximal end of the humerus and the distal ends of the radius and ulna.
Página lxxxvii - The whole of our System, from the great Phyla to the very unit cells, is riddled through and through with polyphyly and convergence.
Página 817 - To promote researches concerning the mineral structure of the earth, and to enable the Council of the Geological Society to reward those individuals of any country by whom such researches may hereafter be made,' — ( such individual not being a Member of the Council.
Página lxvii - All the foregoing rules and aids and difficulties in classification are explained, if I do not greatly deceive myself, on the view that the natural system is founded on descent with modification; that the characters which naturalists consider as showing true affinity between any two or more species, are those which have been inherited from a common parent...
Página 247 - Part III. : The Fossil Flora of the Westphalian Series of the South Staffordshire Coal Field, vol.
Página 817 - ... to accompany the Medal, the remaining interest to be given in one or more portions at the discretion of the Council, for the encouragement of Geology or of any of the allied Sciences by which they shall consider Geology to have been most materially advanced, either for travelling expenses or for a memoir or paper published or in progress, and without reference to the sex or nationality of the author or the language in which any such memoir or paper may be written.
Página 817 - Society may deem most useful in advancing Geological Science, whether by granting sums of money to travellers in pursuit of knowledge, to authors of memoirs, or to persons actually employed in any enquiries bearing upon the science of Geology, or in rewarding any such travellers, authors, or other persons, and the Medal to be given to some person to whom such Council shall grant any sum of money or recompense in respect of Geological Science.
Página 817 - I give to the Geological Society of London the Die executed by Mr. Leonard Wyon of a Medal to be cast in Bronze and to be given annually and called the Lyell Medal, and to be regarded as a mark of honorary distinction and as an expression on the part of the Governing Body of the Society that the Medallist (who may be of any Country or either sex) has deserved well of the Science.

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