Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, Band 9

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Seite lxii - Price 5 cents. 130. Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, Paleontology, Petrology, and Mineralogy for 1892 and 1893, by Fred Boughton Weeks.
Seite 120 - His education was something not much superior to that of the general run of common farmers, but he inherited from nature strong and active parts, which enabled him to rise into a sphere superior to his brethren Any person in Great Britain might send for him, on paying for his time and expences Having engaged for larger quantities of MS. than his materials of real excellence would allow, all his pieces are nearly equal in being filled with trash. This did his reputation so much mischief, and at last...
Seite 120 - ... brethren Any person in Great Britain might send for him, on paying for his time and expences Having engaged for larger quantities of MS. than his materials of real excellence would allow, all his pieces are nearly equal in being filled with trash. This did his reputation so much mischief, and at last injured him so much with the public, that he no longer found any pecuniary advantage in writing, but stuck to his farm, and very wisely depended on that alone. . . . instruments, he procured them,...
Seite xxv - The taking or destroying of the Eggs of the following species of Wild Birds is prohibited throughout the V.
Seite xlvi - ... each museum would have a week of attention in the year from a geologist, and the same from a zoologist and an archaeologist.
Seite lxii - President thanked the Society for the honour they had done him in electing him to the office of President, and promised that he would fulfil its duties to the best of his abilities.
Seite xii - Easy, because it merely involves a walk to a bridge, a jetty, or a pier- head, the lowering of the thermometer into the •water, entering the reading, and carrying it home again ; healthy, from the regularity of the walk ; and inexpensive, because the verified KO thermometer and its copper case, cord, and everything, could be sent to any part of the country complete for a sovereign. 3. Earth temperature at shallow and at great depths. —The second half of...
Seite l - The President referred to the great loss which the Society had sustained by the death of Dr.
Seite xxv - Act, 1880, shall apply within the administrative county of the 1'arts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, to the following wild birds, viz. : — Kestrel, merlin, hobby, common buzzard, honey buzzard, swallow, house martin, sand martin, swift, and wryneck, as if those species were included in the schedule to the Act. (2) The taking or destroying of the eggs of the following wild birds is prohibited within the administrative county of the Parts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, viz. : Goldfinch, kingfisher, nightjar,...
Seite 220 - Commissioners themselves state) increase in a ratio which " somewhat exceeds the ratio of the difference between the temperature of the air and that of the surrounding 'surface with which it is in contact.

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