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A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text
, by mere material accretion; and that there is a very great analogy between vegetable and animal evolution and growth, but more with the viviparous than the oviparous kind. Anat. p. 81, His conclusion is, that a seed is an ovum containing a f tus, which may for years be kept prolific. p. 82. [page] 14
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A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text
near them. In some plants, as the Gooseberry, the spine is close under the bud; which leads to the inference that it attracts electricty to assist in the evolution of the new germ. In some branches it is above the bud; in others, between two buds; in others, the little twig shoots from its bud, and ends in a spine. These specimens were plucked from the common hedge thorn. N 2 [page] 18
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A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text
the ground to a greater depth than is natural to them for their proper growth, they do not vegetate; but they do not therefore die; they retain their power of vegetation to an unlimited period; and when, by any accident, brought so near the surface as to suit their evolution, they begin immediately to grow.54 Ground that has not been disturbed for some hundred years, on being ploughed or turned up for any considerable depth, has frequently surprised the cultivator by the appearance of plants
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A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text
plants than to others14 Here, also, temperature affects them; for in those now growing on the coast of France, variations occur in their evolution, corresponding with the season in which they appear.15 We do not know, nor can we now with decided certainty determine, what was the precise state of the surface of the earth when the command was given for vegetation to arise. We cannot now clearly ascertain whether the whole mass remained that globular level, which its primeval rotation would cause
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A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text
ice still remained thick, and obliged us to perform that evolution twice or thrice in the space of a few minutes; and as we made it a rule not to bear up for any thing, we had some close rubs. By two P. M. we could see the southern termination of the main body of ice. There were still a number of large pieces aground, and much drift about us; the current setting to the northward at the rate of a mile and half an hour. At three the wind fell light. A heavy swell from the S.W. occasioned a furious
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A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text
gratified, and he shook every officer by the hand with unaffected pleasure. The yards had been manned as he was coming off, and when the pipe was given for the seamen to come down, the evolution produced a little surprise, and must have impressed the Loo Chooans with the decided advantage of our dress over theirs, where activity is required. Ojee, one of the party, who also styled himself Jeema, and is mentioned by Captain Hall, followed, and then the rest of the mandarins in yellow batchee-matchees and
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A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text
circumference, are produced by currents of carbonic acid gas, and on their surface many small reservoirs of water are kept in a state of ebullition by bubbles of gas of the size of the fist . After producing other examples of this evolution of carbonic acid gas, either combined with water, or nearly if not altogether free, M. Hoffman observes, that the country situated on the left bank of the Weser in the direction from Carlshafen to Vlotho, up to the foot of the Teutoburg-Wald, may he compared to a
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A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text
order for their production was expressed. All the previous preparations have been made, they would emerge simultaneously to the command. One large district, or island, with mountain, hill, marsh, heath and valley, would have been quite sufficient for the primeval evolution of a sufficient number of every species. In this space, with those differences in the nature and elevation of the surface, all the known classes of vegetation might germinate and grow. Such region appears now in one single
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A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text
the Wolf have an exquisite sense of smell.19 The Cat, and some others, can see in the dark. The Lynx is acute both in sight and smell.20 The Racoon is peculiarly sensitive in both smell and touch.21 Others have a quickness of hearing superior to ourselves;22 and some appear to be impressible by musical sounds.23 In the evolution of the Animal embryo, the formation of its nervous system appears to precede its circulatory functions and fluid.24 And some 19 T. Linn us, 43. 20 Ib. 51. No beast can
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A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text
the tufaceous alluvium of the Rhine volcanos called trass, which has covered large areas, and choked up some valleys now partially re-excavated. This trass is, like the loess, unstratified. The base is composed almost entirely of pumice, in which are included fragments of basalt and other lavas, pieces of burnt shale, slate, and sandstone, and numerous trunks and branches of trees. If an eruption, attended by a copious evolution of gases, should now happen in one of the lake basins, we might
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A747    Beagle Library:     British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1833. Report of the first and second meetings, at York in 1831 and at Oxford in 1832, including its proceedings, recommendations, and transactions. London: John Murray.   Text
.) For information on various points connected with the subject, and on the theories of the evolution of light and heat, the following references may be useful. Wedgewood, Phil. Trans. 1792, p. 28, thinks that light from attrition is produced by a heat of from 400 to 600 Fahr. Diz on Heat as the Cause of Shining, Journ. de Phys. xlix. 177. Gilbert, Ann. iv. 410. Fordyce on Light from Inflammation, Phil. Trans. 1776, p. 504. Morgan, Phil. Trans. 1785, p. 190. M. Hermstaedt, Nicholson's 4 to Journal
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A747    Beagle Library:     British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1833. Report of the first and second meetings, at York in 1831 and at Oxford in 1832, including its proceedings, recommendations, and transactions. London: John Murray.   Text
. In 1828 this difficulty was overcome by W hler, who, by preparing anhydrous chlorides and heating them with potassium, succeeded in reducing alumina, glucina, and yttria. By the same process in the following year Berzelius reduced thorina, and Bussy magnesia. The metals obtained from these oxides are much more permanent than the bases of the alkalies; they may be boiled in water without oxidation, burn when heated in the open air, and are dissolved by acids with evolution of hydrogen gas
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A747    Beagle Library:     British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1833. Report of the first and second meetings, at York in 1831 and at Oxford in 1832, including its proceedings, recommendations, and transactions. London: John Murray.   Text
is shown to be the function of a certain small solid assigned by the author. He likewise gave an outline of a manuscript Memoir on Numeral Evolution, by DR. ALLMAN, Professor of Botany in the University of Dublin, which related principally to a new method for the arithmetical calculation of logarithms. PROFESSOR HAMILTON also stated a general Theorem of his own respecting differences and differentials of Functions of Zero, which he had presented to the Royal Irish Academy, and to which he had
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A747    Beagle Library:     British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1833. Report of the first and second meetings, at York in 1831 and at Oxford in 1832, including its proceedings, recommendations, and transactions. London: John Murray.   Text
his memoir on numeral evolution, 545. Apjohn (Dr. J.), formula by which a proper correction for vapour may be applied to the specific gravities obtained by experiments on gases saturated with moisture, 570. Baxter (W.) on the spiral vessels observed in the mucous matter which envelops the seeds of Salvia verbenaca, 595. Bevan (B.) on the compilation of a general table of altitudes of places in Great Britain and Ireland, 576. Boase (Dr.), remarks on mineral veins, 579. Brewster (Sir D.) on the
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A747    Beagle Library:     British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1833. Report of the first and second meetings, at York in 1831 and at Oxford in 1832, including its proceedings, recommendations, and transactions. London: John Murray.   Text
creasing intensities more of it is enabled to pass in the way of direct radiation. In order to establish this theory, it would be necessary to show that whatever may be the particular law of relation to the surfaces of bodies by which the action of the igneous fluid is determined at any stage of its evolution, the portion transmitted by a screen should act upon any two given surfaces in precisely the same ratio as the part intercepted, or as the whole. Such a ratio will obviously differ at
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A747    Beagle Library:     British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1833. Report of the first and second meetings, at York in 1831 and at Oxford in 1832, including its proceedings, recommendations, and transactions. London: John Murray.   Text
less disturbed, underwent the natural change, and grew to the length of an inch. The period of development in such circumstances varies with the temperature of the apartment, and may thus be produced ten days or a fortnight before their natural evolution in the river; but exposure to the sun kills them infallibly. Having cast the slough, they will live about ten days in water unchanged, apparently thriving, growing, and darkening in colour, (if exposed to the light,) but they have not been
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A747    Beagle Library:     British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1833. Report of the first and second meetings, at York in 1831 and at Oxford in 1832, including its proceedings, recommendations, and transactions. London: John Murray.   Text
within itself the miniature rudiments in detail of the entire foetal fabric, and that the embryo growth is a simultaneous evolution of all the organs which belong to the future foetus, he follows Professors Wolf, Baer, c., in describing the gradual changes in the germinal membrane, and the successive growth of all the organs, in the ovum of the fowl; compares them with what is known of the parallel development of the foetus in viviparous animals; and insists on the probability that in both
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A922    Beagle Library:     Somerville, Mary. 1834. On the connexion of the physical sciences. London: John Murray.   Text
enough for the evolution of flame. Though it is a general law that all bodies expand by heat and contract by cold, yet the absolute change depends upon the nature of the substance. Gases expand more than liquids, and liquids more than solids. The expansion of air is more than eight times that of water, and the increase in the bulk of water is at least forty-five times greater than that of iron. The expansion of solids and liquids increases uniformly with the temperature, between certain limits
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A922    Beagle Library:     Somerville, Mary. 1834. On the connexion of the physical sciences. London: John Murray.   Text
exactly equal to the repulsive force at equal distances, and when not opposed, they coalesce with great rapidity and violence, producing the electric flash, explosion, and shock; then equilibrium is restored, and the electricity remains latent till again called forth by a new exciting cause. One kind of electricity cannot be evolved without the evolution of an equal quantity of the opposite kind: thus, when a glass rod is rubbed with a piece of silk, as much positive electricity is elicited in the
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A922    Beagle Library:     Somerville, Mary. 1834. On the connexion of the physical sciences. London: John Murray.   Text
the night. The intensity increases for two or three hours from the time of sunrise, then decreases towards the middle of the day, and again augments as the sun declines, till about the time of sunset, after which it diminishes, and continues feeble during the night. Atmospheric electricity arises from an evolution of the electric fluid during the evaporation that is so abundant at the surface of the earth; and clouds probably owe their existence, or at least their form, to it, for they consist
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