Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, Volum 9

Portada
 

Continguts

Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot

Frases i termes més freqüents

Passatges populars

Pàgina 250 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Pàgina 142 - I propose therefore to define geography as the science whose main function is to trace the interaction of man in society and so much of his environment as varies locally.
Pàgina 516 - Washington : Government Printing Office, 1885. Quarto, pp. vii, 705. XV. " Report on the Mining Industries of the United States (exclusive of the Precious Metals), with Special Investigation into the Iron Resources of the Republic, and into the Cretaceous Coals of the Northwest, by Raphael Pumpelly." Washington : Government Printing Office, 1886. Quarto, pp. xxxviii, 1025. XVI. " Reports on the Water-Power of the United States.
Pàgina 582 - Report on the Mortality and Vital Statistics of the United States as returned by the Eleventh Census. As the United...
Pàgina 711 - Down the Great River; embracing an account of the discovery of the True Source of the Mississippi...
Pàgina 393 - Royal Atlas of Modern Geography. Exhibiting, in a series of entirely original and authentic maps, the present condition of geographical discovery and research in the several countries, empires, and states of the world.
Pàgina 261 - The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life. Being the Second Series of a Descriptive History of the Life of the Globe.
Pàgina iv - All Subscriptions are payable in advance, on the 1st of January in each year. The privileges of a Fellow include admission (with one Friend) to all ordinary Meetings of the Society, and the use of the Library and Map-room. Each Fellow is also entitled to receive a copy of all the Society's periodical publications.
Pàgina 583 - HEILPRIN, ANGELO. Explorations on the West Coast of Florida and in the Okeechobee Wilderness, with Special Reference to the Geology and Zoology of the Floridau Peninsula.
Pàgina 144 - ... Looked at from the side of its origin, the rock brings before us a sea-bottom over which the relics of generations of a luxuriant marine calcareous fauna accumulated. We may be able to trace every bed, to mark with precision its organic contents, and to establish the zoological succession of which these superimposed sea-bottoms are the records. But we may be quite unable to explain how such sea-formed limestone came to stand as it now does, here towering into hills, and there sinking into valleys....

Informació bibliogràfica