Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, Volume 1; Volume 79

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht., 1833
 

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Page 160 - DAVY'S (SiR HUMPHRY) Consolations in Travel; or, Last Days of a Philosopher, fifth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. Svo. 6s. Salmonia; or, Days of Fly Fishing. With some Account of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. fourth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. Svo. 6s. DENNIS' (GEORGE) Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria; or, the extant Local Remains of Etruscan Art.
Page 402 - Milton's fiend, qualified for all services and all elements, the creature was a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 237 - ' OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES OF THE OVARIA: their Symptoms and Treatment; to -which are prefixed Observations on the Structure and Functions of those parts in the Human Being and in Animals.
Page 396 - ... The eruptions of Vesuvius seem very rarely to have taken place from any other than the central vent ; a few small cones immediately above Torre del Greco, thrown up in 1794, and the cone on which the Camaldoli della Torre is built, are the only indications of explosions having burst from the sides of the mountain. The vast number of vertical basaltic dykes which intersect the horizontal beds observable in the broken cliffs of the old crater (Atrio del Cavallo) bear witness, however, that the...
Page 582 - On errors in standards of linear measure, arising from the thickness of the bar on which they are traced. Phil. Trans., 1830, pp.
Page 394 - Formation of Freshwater Limestone in Forfarshire, and on some Recent Deposits of Freshwater Marl, with a comparison of recent with ancient Freshwater Formations, and an Appendix on Gyrogonites, or Seed Vessel of Chara ;" also one " On the Strata of the Plastic Clay Formation exhibited in the Cliffs between Christchurch Head, Hampshire, and Studland Bay, Dorsetshire...
Page 402 - ... the nose elongated, like the snout of a crocodile, and armed with conical teeth. Their eyes were of enormous size, apparently enabling them to fly by night. From their wings projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of the bat. These must have formed a powerful paw, wherewith the animal was enabled to creep or climb, or suspend itself from trees. It is probable, also, that the pterodactyles had the power of swimming, which is so common in reptiles, and which...
Page 101 - Almanach de Carlsbad, ou mélanges médicaux, scientifiques et littéraires, relatifs à ces thermes et au pays.
Page 360 - Les mêmes, édition arabe , corrigée sur un manuscrit de la Bibliothèque royale de Paris, avec une traduction française, et accompagnée de remarques et d'un vocabulaire arabe-français , par Ch.

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